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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

What to Do with Cyber Threat Intelligence

In this final stage of the book, we began the next and final stage of the intelligence life cycle by discussing the preparation of threat intelligence and, finally, the dissemination to stakeholder groups within the organization. After the intelligence has been analyzed and produced, it should be disseminated, with feedback sought.

In Chapter 10, Preparation and Dissemination, we began by discussing the data interpretation journey. In this chapter, we focused on how to interpret the collected data, evaluate it for intelligence, and identify which portions of it should be considered as timely, accurate, and relevant threat intelligence. Special focus in this chapter was placed on interpretation and alignment, critical thinking and reasoning, tagging, and considerations of threat intelligence based on lessons learned by the United States intelligence community.

In Chapter 11, Fusion into Other Enterprise Operations, we specifically...