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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

The artifact and observable repositories

Once intelligence and data are collected, where are they stored? Often an afterthought in the collection management process, the storage and maintenance of intelligence and related data is an important discipline, often carried out by individuals solely tasked with that function in the collection team. While there are many options for how to store intelligence and data, very broadly speaking, artifact and observable data repositories are simply intelligence and data stores that facilitate the following high-level objectives:

  • The ability to store threat intelligence data in a normalized and efficient fashion
  • The ability to access, filter, search, and query threat intelligence data
  • API feed functionality to access threat intelligence data
  • The ability to facilitate role-based access
  • The ability to be modular in nature, supporting diverse threat data ingestion via diverse transport mechanisms, such as Structured Threat Information...