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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
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Section 3: What to Do with Threat Intelligence

Dissemination and feedback

The final stage of the intelligence life cycle is where we disseminate the intelligence that we have created and seek out stakeholder feedback after consumption and review. Earlier, in the production phase of our intelligence life cycle, we created two distinct deliverables for the scenario we established for the practical application portion of the chapter. Since the original FCRs were produced by the SOC, the final report, titled Cyber Threat Intelligence – Ozark International Bank, will be distributed back to them.

The two deliverables we produced in the production phase of the intelligence life cycle are ready to be disseminated to the stakeholder community and consumed. The intelligence stakeholder in our practical example is the SOC, who specifically created an FCR for us to collect binary and network IOCs associated with threats targeting the organization.

In the second example we produced, the STIX object that represents the threat and...