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

Planning a hunt

Beginning a threat hunt does not require a good deal of planning, but there should be some structure as to how the threat hunt will be conducted, the sources of data, and the period on which the threat hunt will focus. A brief written plan will address all of the key points necessary and place all of the hunt team on the same focus area so that extraneous data that does not pertain to the threat hunt is minimized. The following are seven key elements that should be addressed in any plan:

Hypothesis: A one- or two-sentence hypothesis, which was discussed earlier. This hypothesis should be clearly understood by all the hunt team members.
MITRE ATT&CK tactic(s): In the previous chapter, there was a discussion of the MITRE ATT&CK framework and its application to threat intelligence and incident response. In this case, the threat hunt should include specific tactics that have been in use by threat actors. Select the tactics that are most applicable to...