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Digital Forensics and Incident Response

By : Gerard Johansen
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Digital Forensics and Incident Response

By: Gerard Johansen

Overview of this book

Digital Forensics and Incident Response will guide you through the entire spectrum of tasks associated with incident response, starting with preparatory activities associated with creating an incident response plan and creating a digital forensics capability within your own organization. You will then begin a detailed examination of digital forensic techniques including acquiring evidence, examining volatile memory, hard drive assessment, and network-based evidence. You will also explore the role that threat intelligence plays in the incident response process. Finally, a detailed section on preparing reports will help you prepare a written report for use either internally or in a courtroom. By the end of the book, you will have mastered forensic techniques and incident response and you will have a solid foundation on which to increase your ability to investigate such incidents in your organization.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
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Preface

Chapter 11. Threat Intelligence

One area of incident response that has had a significant impact on an organization's ability to respond to cyber-attacks is the use of cyber threat intelligence or simply threat intelligence. The term cyber threat intelligence covers a wide range of information, data points, and techniques that allows analysts to identify attack types in their network, and adequately respond to them and prepare for future attacks. To be able to properly leverage this capability, information security analysts should have a solid foundation of the various terminologies, methodologies, and tools that can be utilized in conjunction with threat intelligence. If analysts are able to utilize this data, they will be in a better positioned to take pro-active security measures and in the event of a security incident, be more efficient in their response.