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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

Installing the MISP platform (optional)

MISP, as defined in the TIPs – an overview section and on the official website, is an open-source TIP and a set of open standards for threat intelligence sharing. To avoid paying for expensive TIP platforms, we will use the MISP platform to connect our theoretical knowledge to practical examples. This section is optional and only for organizations and individuals who want to complete practical exercises to better understand the concepts developed in this book.

Please refer to the MISP project download page (https://www.misp-project.org/download/) to download and install MISP on any convenient operating system. However, the auto-generated VirtualBox's MISP image (an OVA file) is used for this use case. The OVA file can be obtained from CIRCL (https://www.circl.lu/misp-images/latest/). It is assumed that you know how to import OVA files into the VirtualBox environment.

The default credentials for the MISP VM are shown here (also...