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Incident Response with Threat Intelligence

By : Roberto Martinez
Book Image

Incident Response with Threat Intelligence

By: Roberto Martinez

Overview of this book

With constantly evolving cyber threats, developing a cybersecurity incident response capability to identify and contain threats is indispensable for any organization regardless of its size. This book covers theoretical concepts and a variety of real-life scenarios that will help you to apply these concepts within your organization. Starting with the basics of incident response, the book introduces you to professional practices and advanced concepts for integrating threat hunting and threat intelligence procedures in the identification, contention, and eradication stages of the incident response cycle. As you progress through the chapters, you'll cover the different aspects of developing an incident response program. You'll learn the implementation and use of platforms such as TheHive and ELK and tools for evidence collection such as Velociraptor and KAPE before getting to grips with the integration of frameworks such as Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK for analysis and investigation. You'll also explore methodologies and tools for cyber threat hunting with Sigma and YARA rules. By the end of this book, you'll have learned everything you need to respond to cybersecurity incidents using threat intelligence.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Fundamentals of Incident Response
6
Section 2: Getting to Know the Adversaries
10
Section 3: Designing and Implementing Incident Response in Organizations
15
Section 4: Improving Threat Detection in Incident Response

Following first-response procedures

Before starting with the first-response procedures, you will need to prepare a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device to create your kit with all the tools and configuration necessary to perform the exercises of this chapter. This is the equivalent of having a first aid kit to use in case of an emergency.

For this exercise, you will need your pen drive ready and then follow these steps:

  1. Right-click the mouse button, select the disk drive of your pen drive to open the context menu, and then select the Format... option.
  2. In the Format dialog box, on the File system option, select NTFS or exFAT (this format is useful in environments different from Windows, such as macOS or Linux, providing full read-write support), as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.1 – Preparing the first-response toolkit USB

Note

Pen drives are usually formatted as FAT32 filesystem by default. The problem with...