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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

How to Collect Cyber Threat Intelligence

In the next section of the book, we largely focused on collecting cyber threat intelligence, enriching and pivoting on data that we collect, analyzing that threat data, and then even modeling it to help us get a better understanding of the holistic threat.

We didn't want you to begin collecting any data about a threat without a complete understanding of the security issues that are associated with this type of work. So, in Chapter 5, Operational Security (OPSEC), we thoroughly laid out the foundation for protecting yourself while collecting threat data from both a technical perspective but also a behavioral perspective as well. OPSEC is a security and risk management process that prevents sensitive information about you from getting into the hands of those that mean to do you harm. This can mean several things, including information about your personal identity, the infrastructure you use for collections, and even the actions you take...