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The Foundations of Threat Hunting

By : Chad Maurice, Jeremy Thompson, William Copeland
Book Image

The Foundations of Threat Hunting

By: Chad Maurice, Jeremy Thompson, William 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)
1
Part 1: Preparation – Why and How to Start the Hunting Process
9
Part 2: Execution – Conducting a Hunt
14
Part 3: Recovery – Post-Hunt Activity

SOW

An MOA can be used for arrangements with parties outside the organization, but that is not common business practice. SOWs are used between businesses to record what kind of work will be done and which deliverables are expected.

The communication here isn't limited to the work the team will do, but also must at a minimum discuss compensation, possibly some of the tactics, and other communication requirements. The construct and specificity of the SOW will depend on what each party wants the document to say. For example, it could just state that a forensics/threat-hunting company will perform forensics services for up to a certain amount of money. An SOW will almost always have a set amount of money for the threat-hunting firm to spend—this is because it's a commercial agreement. Open-ended engagements are not common within the cybersecurity industry because teams can always keep hunting due to the never-ending supply of data, but no organization has the funds...