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Operationalizing Threat Intelligence

You're reading from   Operationalizing Threat Intelligence A guide to developing and operationalizing cyber threat intelligence programs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801814683
Length 460 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Joseph Opacki Joseph Opacki
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Preface 1. Section 1: What Is Threat Intelligence?
2. Chapter 1: Why You Need a Threat Intelligence Program FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Threat Actors, Campaigns, and Tooling 4. Chapter 3: Guidelines and Policies 5. Chapter 4: Threat Intelligence Frameworks, Standards, Models, and Platforms 6. Section 2: How to Collect Threat Intelligence
7. Chapter 5: Operational Security (OPSEC) 8. Chapter 6: Technical Threat Intelligence – Collection 9. Chapter 7: Technical Threat Analysis – Enrichment 10. Chapter 8: Technical Threat Analysis – Threat Hunting and Pivoting 11. Chapter 9: Technical Threat Analysis – Similarity Analysis 12. Section 3: What to Do with Threat Intelligence
13. Chapter 10: Preparation and Dissemination 14. Chapter 11: Fusion into Other Enterprise Operations 15. Chapter 12: Overview of Datasets and Their Practical Application 16. Chapter 13: Conclusion 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Threat campaigns

Understanding what defines a threat campaign is paramount in CTI. Threat campaigns help define a specific cluster of related activity conducted by a singular or several threat actors or groups acting in unison. Ultimately, campaigns are groups of threat activity that are carried out by threat actors using specific tactics, techniques, and procedures operating for a specific purpose. A good example of this would be a threat actor group targeting a retail outlet during December.

A threat campaign is a set of incidents performed by a threat actor using specific techniques over a specific timeframe with a particular motivation and target. Most often, when campaigns are being identified, the actor behind the campaign cannot be defined. In this case, it's best to assign a temporary or unknown actor indicator for further clustering and analysis. Defining the activity that correlates with a specific campaign is a largely subjective decision. This is often the case...

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