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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)
1
Section 1: Cyber Threat Intelligence Life Cycle, Requirements, and Tradecraft
7
Section 2: Cyber Threat Analytical Modeling and Defensive Mechanisms
13
Section 3: Integrating Cyber Threat Intelligence Strategy to Business processes

Technical requirements

This chapter contains a practical exercise to install an open-source TIP that will be used throughout this book. It is essential to meet the following technical requirements:

  • Hardware: Possess a computer or a server with at least 64 GB of disk space and 8 GB RAM. An i5 (or higher) processor is recommended to smoothly run the malware information sharing platform (MISP) virtual machine (VM).
  • Software: Install a virtualization software environment (VirtualBox is used here, but VMware or any other virtualization software can be used as well). Most virtualization software supports all the major operating systems. Therefore, any OS should work fine.
  • Miscellaneous: Have a basic knowledge of the chosen virtualization software in terms of networking and other configurations.

    Note

    You can still read this book and understand its concepts without installing the MISP platform. The practical aspect is added to equip you with the basic skills required to perform...