Summary

In this chapter, we have considered many threats that can impact an enterprise and identified policies and procedures to deal with unplanned security-related events. We learned about the importance of timely responses to security incidents. Knowledge has been gained on deploying the appropriate threat detection capabilities. We have studied automation, including orchestration and SOAR, also taking care to include a human in the loop. Ever-increasing evidence of APTs means that we need to rely on forensics to detect IOCs and, where necessary, collect the evidence to formulate a response. You should now be familiar with incident response planning and have a good understanding of forensic concepts. After completing the previous section, you should now be familiar with using forensic analysis tools.

Cybersecurity professionals must be able to recognize and use common security tools as these will be important for many day-to-day security activities. Nmap, dd, hashing utilities...