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Operationalizing Threat Intelligence

By : Kyle Wilhoit, Joseph Opacki
Book Image

Operationalizing Threat Intelligence

By: Kyle Wilhoit, Joseph Opacki

Overview of this book

We’re living in an era where cyber threat intelligence is becoming more important. Cyber threat intelligence routinely informs tactical and strategic decision-making throughout organizational operations. However, finding the right resources on the fundamentals of operationalizing a threat intelligence function can be challenging, and that’s where this book helps. In Operationalizing Threat Intelligence, you’ll explore cyber threat intelligence in five fundamental areas: defining threat intelligence, developing threat intelligence, collecting threat intelligence, enrichment and analysis, and finally production of threat intelligence. You’ll start by finding out what threat intelligence is and where it can be applied. Next, you’ll discover techniques for performing cyber threat intelligence collection and analysis using open source tools. The book also examines commonly used frameworks and policies as well as fundamental operational security concepts. Later, you’ll focus on enriching and analyzing threat intelligence through pivoting and threat hunting. Finally, you’ll examine detailed mechanisms for the production of intelligence. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the right tools and understand what it takes to operationalize your own threat intelligence function, from collection to production.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: What Is Threat Intelligence?
6
Section 2: How to Collect Threat Intelligence
12
Section 3: What to Do with Threat Intelligence

Chapter 8: Technical Threat Analysis – Threat Hunting and Pivoting

Closely aligned to threat analysis and enrichment, threat hunting and pivoting are also done in the analysis stage of the threat intelligence lifecycle. The concept of threat hunting and pivoting involves working off a hypothesis or non-biased analytical judgment and some sort of data to hunt or pivot on. Presumably, pivoting off that hypothesis or data will yield additional indicators, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and infrastructure used by a threat actor that can be monitored or alerted on. In this chapter, we will examine some core concepts related to threat hunting and pivot off that data to find related threat actor activity.

Closely related to performing threat intelligence enrichment and analysis, pivoting and threat hunting help build a web of knowledge for TTPs associated with campaigns, actor groups, and malware families that fall directly into the analysis stage of the intelligence...