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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

IR

Often, IR is a by-product of an organization's growth and its unique need for an IR function. Many organizations leverage IR and forensics under the same umbrella, making their coordination and cohesion imperative. Smaller organizations might even include the threat intelligence function in the IR function.

While there are many IR life cycles that can be used by an organization, we will focus on two life cycles in particular: the traditional IR life cycle popularized throughout the IR community and the second life cycle, which involves leveraging F3EAD, which is a targeting methodology employed by military special operations teams across the globe. First, let's dive in by looking at the IR life cycle.

The IR life cycle

Seemingly popularized in the NIST 800-61 Computer Incident Handling Guide (https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-61/archive/2004-01-16), the traditional IR life cycle is intended to be broad and apply to any incident type, such as phishing...