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Mastering Cyber Intelligence

By : Jean Nestor M. Dahj
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Mastering Cyber Intelligence

By: Jean Nestor M. Dahj

Overview of this book

The sophistication of cyber threats, such as ransomware, advanced phishing campaigns, zero-day vulnerability attacks, and advanced persistent threats (APTs), is pushing organizations and individuals to change strategies for reliable system protection. Cyber Threat Intelligence converts threat information into evidence-based intelligence that uncovers adversaries' intents, motives, and capabilities for effective defense against all kinds of threats. This book thoroughly covers the concepts and practices required to develop and drive threat intelligence programs, detailing the tasks involved in each step of the CTI lifecycle. You'll be able to plan a threat intelligence program by understanding and collecting the requirements, setting up the team, and exploring the intelligence frameworks. You'll also learn how and from where to collect intelligence data for your program, considering your organization level. With the help of practical examples, this book will help you get to grips with threat data processing and analysis. And finally, you'll be well-versed with writing tactical, technical, and strategic intelligence reports and sharing them with the community. By the end of this book, you'll have acquired the knowledge and skills required to drive threat intelligence operations from planning to dissemination phases, protect your organization, and help in critical defense decisions.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Section 1: Cyber Threat Intelligence Life Cycle, Requirements, and Tradecraft
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Section 2: Cyber Threat Analytical Modeling and Defensive Mechanisms
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Section 3: Integrating Cyber Threat Intelligence Strategy to Business processes

Technical requirements

The analysis in this chapter uses the MISP TI platform and the SIFT VM installed on VirtualBox. The download and installation of these tools can be done through the following official websites:

MISP and the SIFT Workstation can be a good combination for CTI analysis, especially for Level 1 organizations. However, it has to be noted that several tools can be used for CTI analysis, both open source and commercial. The objective of the use case is to provide a logical flow for analyzing CTI matters.