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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

Threat modeling methods and frameworks

Often, individuals and organizations find that threat modeling uses visualizations and that threat frameworks help to identify the threat actors' capabilities, motivations, and goals. This practice has been known to drive software and product improvements, harden security postures, and even drive threat intelligence requirements as part of the cyclical nature of constant evaluation. The purpose of utilizing these methods and frameworks is to train the hunters, researchers, and analysts who are looking at the intelligence collection to have a mindset that considers how the adversary will compromise a system. These modeling methods and frameworks discussed are meant to be repeatable and, at times, benefit from security automation to aid the organization. Let's examine some that are popular within the CTI industry.

Threat intelligence pyramid of pain

In Chapter 3, Guidance and Policies, when we discussed General Intelligence Requirements...