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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

Chapter 6: Technical Threat Intelligence – Collection

Intelligence collection is a term that is thrown around quite a lot across the cyber threat intelligence (CTI) industry, but unfortunately, it is not widely discussed or even analyzed as a discipline in the private sector. While governments and militaries may have invested a significant amount into mastering the discipline for nation-state activities or as part of military operations, there is still a large barrier to entry for individuals who wish to engage in this line of work in the private sector. Collection is a discipline that is often not invested in correctly by private sector organizations. Most private sector programs that have a concerted collection effort have usually been started by individuals who have had formal training from active military service or employment in a government agency. They have taken their insight into intelligence collection and provided the knowledge learned from their previous experience...