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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

Section 2: How to Collect Threat Intelligence

Section 2 of Operationalizing Threat Intelligence builds upon Section 1 of the book with the introduction of core concepts related to how to collect, enrich, and analyze threat data and intelligence. This section addresses and answers the questions How to do I collect threat intelligence? and How do I perform threat hunting and pivoting? The chapters throughout Section 2 cover everything from understanding operational security to threat intelligence similarity clustering.

This part of the book comprises the following chapters:

  • Chapter 5, Operational Security (OPSEC)
  • Chapter 6, Technical Threat Intelligence – Collection
  • Chapter 7, Technical Threat Analysis – Enrichment
  • Chapter 8, Technical Threat Analysis – Threat Hunting and Pivoting
  • Chapter 9, Technical Threat Analysis – Similarity Analysis