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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 11: Fusion into Other Enterprise Operations

As we begin the process of dissemination and approach the end of the intelligence life cycle, we need to put some thought into how each of our potential organizational stakeholders will consume and use the intelligence before we begin the cycle again. There are many internal stakeholders within an organization who can consume this intelligence for many different purposes. In this chapter, we will discuss how different enterprise stakeholders within an organization consume threat intelligence by examining different organization elements and determining their needs and use cases. By the end of this chapter, you will have a better understanding of how to share threat intelligence across your key stakeholder groups and be able to identify any special considerations that must be accounted for throughout the entire intelligence life cycle.

In this chapter, we will examine the following stakeholders, as we believe that today, most enterprise...