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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

Understanding the MITRE ATT&CK framework

MITRE Adversaries Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK) (https://attack.mitre.org/) is a knowledge base created by MITRE in 2013 and maintained by multiple organizations and the security community to identify the tactics and techniques used by malicious actors in different real-life attacks. The information of the ATT&CK Matrix for Enterprise is organized into 14 tactics divided into techniques and sub-techniques based on the phases presented in an attack as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 6.4 – The ATT&CK Matrix for Enterprise

There are currently three categories of ATT&CK matrices:

  • Enterprise: Describes the actions that a threat actor can use on corporate networks that include Windows, macOS, Linux, PRE, Azure AD, Office 365, Google Workspace, SaaS, IaaS, network, and container platforms: https://attack.mitre.org/matrices/enterprise/
  • Mobile: Describes...