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Incident Response with Threat Intelligence

By : Roberto Martinez
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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)
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Section 1: The Fundamentals of Incident Response
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Section 2: Getting to Know the Adversaries
10
Section 3: Designing and Implementing Incident Response in Organizations
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Section 4: Improving Threat Detection in Incident Response

Introducing the Cyber Kill Chain framework

The framework known as Cyber Kill Chain® (https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/capabilities/cyber/cyber-kill-chain.html) was developed by Lockheed Martin as part of its model to identify and prevent malicious activities and intrusions, also known as Intelligence Driven Defense. The origin of the central concept of this framework is related to the phases that an adversary follows in the stages of a military attack.

The framework consists of seven phases or stages that describe the moments when attackers perform different actions to pursue their goals. This information is handy to identify the possible phase of an attack in a cybersecurity incident, as is depicted in the following diagram:

Figure 6.1 – Lockheed Martin's Cyber Kill Chain® framework

The seven phases seen in the preceding diagram are described as follows:

  1. Reconnaissance: Attackers gather information to profile the...