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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

Personnel training and metrics

There are two things you should implement a training program for and that is OPSEC compliance and institutionalizing an OPSEC culture to increase your intelligence collection capabilities. From a compliance perspective, everything we have laid out in this chapter is going to be hard to learn, so expect to make some mistakes during your implementation. Recurring training establishes the expectations of the staff and assists managers with enforcement. All OPSEC policies, processes, and procedures should be covered in the material and organizations should establish a cultural expectation that this is a requirement for work.

After creating your CTI program, don't expect all your employees to have the talent or skill to establish a long-term identity in a vetted access community. Training will be needed and a vehicle to measure the employee's collection skill set will need to be implemented. Apply a metric to your employee's skill set that...