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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

Identity OPSEC

Identity OPSEC involves procedures and countermeasures that you take to protect your identity. With online collection operations, two identities need to be protected; your identity and that of any online personas that have been utilized to run the operation. Let's examine both.

Personal protection

Your identity is perhaps the most critical piece of information that should be protected during your collection operations. Any piece of personally identifiable information (PII), and even information about your infrastructure that can lead to you being identified, should be protected at all costs and even completely separated from the collection operations. Complete separation is usually not an issue for corporate organizations, assuming that their security research teams use best practices, perform risk assessments, and actively try not to mingle personal information with corporate collection operations.

This becomes a little more difficult when the security...