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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

Intelligence collection metrics

In the last phase of the collection operations life cycle, the collection manager will need to evaluate the collection operation utilizing performance measures. To do this, the collection manager will need to decide on what type of measure they will want to use to evaluate the collection effort. Most organizations start with some sort of quantitative metric that measures the quantity of effort, while more mature organizations move toward implementing a qualitative performance evaluation process that looks at the impact the collected data will have as well as the quality of the source of collection. We will look at both, starting with quantitative metrics.

Quantitative metrics

While trying to define how an organization will produce quantitative metrics to compare the performance of the collection operations, the collection manager should start with defining a unit of measurement. This will be crucial for the organization not only because it will...