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Agile Security Operations

By : Hinne Hettema
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Agile Security Operations

By: Hinne Hettema

Overview of this book

Agile security operations allow organizations to survive cybersecurity incidents, deliver key insights into the security posture of an organization, and operate security as an integral part of development and operations. It is, deep down, how security has always operated at its best. Agile Security Operations will teach you how to implement and operate an agile security operations model in your organization. The book focuses on the culture, staffing, technology, strategy, and tactical aspects of security operations. You'll learn how to establish and build a team and transform your existing team into one that can execute agile security operations. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll be able to improve your understanding of some of the key concepts of security, align operations with the rest of the business, streamline your operations, learn how to report to senior levels in the organization, and acquire funding. By the end of this Agile book, you'll be ready to start implementing agile security operations, using the book as a handy reference.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Incidence Response: The Heart of Security
5
Section 2: Defensible Organizations
10
Section 3: Advanced Agile Security Operations

Structured analytic techniques

One of the problems analysts face when analyzing cyber incidents is how to make sense of the large quantities of data that are collected during a forensic investigation.

In traditional intelligence circles, structured analytic techniques are designed to assist with this process by providing several specific techniques that assist in the process of analyzing large amounts of data, avoiding bias, and generating hypotheses that can be subsequently tested. Especially in long-running, large-scale incidents, teams tend to get in a situation in which the analyze portion of the problem can be handled with a structured approach.

Each of the following techniques is a structured approach that has some advantages and disadvantages.

Structured Analytic Techniques

The standard reference for structured analytic techniques is Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis, Richards J. Heuer Jr. and Randolph H. Pherson, SAGE.

The following list...