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Operationalizing Threat Intelligence

By : Kyle Wilhoit, Joseph Opacki
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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

Summary

In this chapter, we tried to articulate the importance of Collection in the intelligence life cycle, a section that is often overlooked by the private sector whose foundation has roots in the government and the military. Hopefully what you garnered through this chapter is the importance of the collection management process, the role that the collection manager plays in any organization, and the collection operations life cycle, which details the efforts of intelligence gathering.

We broke down each phase of the collection operations life cycle by focusing first on reviewing what you know about your collection effectiveness, surveying the needs of the organization while reevaluating the PCRs, planning and administering the collection operation, performing the collection operation, evaluating the collection and source information, and creating collection metrics. Collection metrics provide you with insight into your overall collection effort and can be utilized to shift your...