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The Foundations of Threat Hunting

The Foundations of Threat Hunting

By : Maurice, Jeremiah Ginn, Copeland
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The Foundations of Threat Hunting

The Foundations of Threat Hunting

4.7 (3)
By: Maurice, Jeremiah Ginn, Copeland

Overview of this book

Threat hunting is a concept that takes traditional cyber defense and spins it onto its head. It moves the bar for network defenses beyond looking at the known threats and allows a team to pursue adversaries that are attacking in novel ways that have not previously been seen. To successfully track down and remove these advanced attackers, a solid understanding of the foundational concepts and requirements of the threat hunting framework is needed. Moreover, to confidently employ threat hunting in a business landscape, the same team will need to be able to customize that framework to fit a customer’s particular use case. This book breaks down the fundamental pieces of a threat hunting team, the stages of a hunt, and the process that needs to be followed through planning, execution, and recovery. It will take you through the process of threat hunting, starting from understanding cybersecurity basics through to the in-depth requirements of building a mature hunting capability. This is provided through written instructions as well as multiple story-driven scenarios that show the correct (and incorrect) way to effectively conduct a threat hunt. By the end of this cyber threat hunting book, you’ll be able to identify the processes of handicapping an immature cyber threat hunt team and systematically progress the hunting capabilities to maturity.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Part 1: Preparation – Why and How to Start the Hunting Process
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Part 2: Execution – Conducting a Hunt
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Part 3: Recovery – Post-Hunt Activity

Chapter 9: Hardware and Toolsets

In Chapter 7, Planning, the process of identifying resource requirements for the threat hunt was discussed. This chapter goes over the planning for resources in greater detail. The first item that the team must identify is the type of target networks and technologies that they will be interfacing with. This determination will aid them in identifying the personnel and equipment required to conduct the hunt.

Every hunt can and should be customized to the target network. This could include going so far as to establish a dedicated private cloud that a sensor can use a VPN to connect through for the team to be able to export outside the organization's, or a possible threat actor's, direct observation. While this book is not intended to be a technical how-to book, we will cover the higher-level capabilities that a team will need to have at the ready for the hunt.

Regardless of the target network's physical location or whether it is an...

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