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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

Summary

Throughout this chapter, we began by discussing the need and benefit of guidelines, procedures, standards, and policies. We spent some time providing guidance around building out a GIR and providing judgment criteria to determine whether the one you are defining is well-crafted and how to evaluate it. Then, we talked about how to prioritize the GIR and make it organization-centric.

After that general introduction, we introduced you to FCRs, IERs, DIRs, PIRs, and SIRs, which gave you the opportunity to decide how granular your collection management could be. One suggestion could be to move all the requirements into a relational database for ease of tracking the interconnectivity between all the requirements.

In the next chapter, we will begin by introducing you to the threat intelligence frameworks, standards, and platforms that can be used to collect, store, and distribute threat intelligence collection. Understanding the available frameworks, the standards around storage...