You're reading from Digital Forensics and Incident Response Incident response tools and techniques for effective cyber threat response

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803238678

Length 532 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Concepts

Forensics

Author (1):

Gerard Johansen

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Foundations of Incident Response and Digital Forensics

2. Chapter 1: Understanding Incident Response FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Managing Cyber Incidents

4. Chapter 3: Fundamentals of Digital Forensics

5. Chapter 4: Investigation Methodology

6. Part 2: Evidence Acquisition

7. Chapter 5: Collecting Network Evidence

8. Chapter 6: Acquiring Host-Based Evidence

9. Chapter 7: Remote Evidence Collection

10. Chapter 8: Forensic Imaging

11. Part 3: Evidence Analysis

12. Chapter 9: Analyzing Network Evidence

13. Chapter 10: Analyzing System Memory

14. Chapter 11: Analyzing System Storage

15. Chapter 12: Analyzing Log Files

16. Chapter 13: Writing the Incident Report

17. Part 4: Ransomware Incident Response

18. Chapter 14: Ransomware Preparation and Response

19. Chapter 15: Ransomware Investigations

20. Part 5: Threat Intelligence and Hunting

21. Chapter 16: Malware Analysis for Incident Response

22. Chapter 17: Leveraging Threat Intelligence

23. Chapter 18: Threat Hunting

24. Assessments

25. Index

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Appendix

Summary

Planning for an incident is critical. Equally critical is the proper management of an incident. This involves several elements that each CSIRT must address during the life of an incident.

Proper logistics provide the necessary elements for the CSIRT to function. Having strategies to communicate incident information to leadership, third parties, and customers keeps these stakeholders informed, lessens speculation, and ensures that compliance requirements are met. Incident investigation allows the CSIRT to properly identify the attack and the scope and limit damage via a proper containment strategy. Finally, these elements are all part of eradicating an adversary’s ability to access a network and helping an organization to return to normal. As we stated at the beginning of this book, everyone has a plan until they get hit in the face. The real value of a CSIRT to an organization is not in the plans and playbooks, but in how well they perform when an incident occurs...