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

Working with IOCs and IOAs

A common mistake that is often made by organizations that start the process of leveraging threat intelligence is to subscribe to a few commercial or open source feeds and turn them on. This approach will see the enterprise quickly become inundated with data. Most of this data will be unusable for the organization. The reality is that analysts and other stakeholders should work through crafting what data is relevant to their organization and use sources that can provide the best data to fit that relevance.

In this case, we will focus on OSINT sources. There are several commercial organizations, such as CrowdStrike and AlienVault, that make IOCs and IOAs available to the community. Other sites are strictly focused on servicing the cybersecurity community without a commercial component. The following are some resources that analysts can leverage: