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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?
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Section 2: How to Collect Threat Intelligence
12
Section 3: What to Do with Threat Intelligence

Other departments to consider

At this point, we have mostly talked about the use of threat intelligence by security organizations. This is because they are the largest consumers of threat intelligence, as it is used both tactically and strategically to defend the organization and make it resilient against attacks. To do this, they need to understand who is targeting them, why they are being targeted, and how they can put the necessary processes, people, and technologies into place to defend against those attacks.

However, security organizations are not the only organizations that can use threat intelligence for value. While not a holistic list, we've identified other stakeholder departments within organizations that usually consume threat intelligence.

Products and services

"Products and services" is a broad and hard-to-address term for everyone. We have listed it here because we know that it is not uncommon for threat actors to target the products or services...