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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)
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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

The importance of adopting frameworks and standards

The need for frameworks and standards throughout threat intelligence is unique and required due to several reasons. First and foremost, frameworks and standards help organize, structure, and facilitate sharing, analyzing, and understanding threat intelligence data and information from internal or external teams. These frameworks, models, and standards help establish baselines on how sharing, analysis, and modeling should be done, and more.

Frameworks and standards that are leveraged across the CTI function of an organization help us focus on the details of sharing, modeling, classifying, and analyzing threat intelligence data and information. Organizations that rely on common frameworks and models should be used as part of a comprehensive CTI strategy. With that, let's examine some of the most widely used frameworks, models, and standards.