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Incident Response Techniques for Ransomware Attacks

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Incident Response Techniques for Ransomware Attacks

Overview of this book

Ransomware attacks have become the strongest and most persistent threat for many companies around the globe. Building an effective incident response plan to prevent a ransomware attack is crucial and may help you avoid heavy losses. Incident Response Techniques for Ransomware Attacks is designed to help you do just that. This book starts by discussing the history of ransomware, showing you how the threat landscape has changed over the years, while also covering the process of incident response in detail. You’ll then learn how to collect and produce ransomware-related cyber threat intelligence and look at threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures. Next, the book focuses on various forensic artifacts in order to reconstruct each stage of a human-operated ransomware attack life cycle. In the concluding chapters, you’ll get to grips with various kill chains and discover a new one: the Unified Ransomware Kill Chain. By the end of this ransomware book, you’ll be equipped with the skills you need to build an incident response strategy for all ransomware attacks.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started with a Modern Ransomware Attack
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Section 2: Know Your Adversary: How Ransomware Gangs Operate
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Section 3: Practical Incident Response

Chapter 3: The Incident Response Process

Now that you have reached this chapter, you should already have a good understanding of modern human-operated ransomware attacks, so you are ready to look at the incident response process. Of course, processes may be a bit boring to look at, but it's still very important to have solid understanding – it'll speed up your incident response!

What's more, rather than telling you the same story one more time, we will look at a classic incident response process, developed by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), from a ransomware attack perspective and, of course, using real-world examples and experience.

It was introduced in Computer Security Incident Handling Guide by Paul Cichonski, Tom Millar, Tim Grance, and Karen Scarfone. Still, many incident response teams all around the globe are using it on a daily basis during their engagements. Again, I'm not going to retype this paper, rather share my...