You're reading from Practical Threat Intelligence and Data-Driven Threat Hunting A hands-on guide to threat hunting with the ATT&CK™ Framework and open source tools

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838556372

Length 398 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Elasticsearch

Concepts

Application Security

Author (1):

Valentina Costa-Gazcón

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Cyber Threat Intelligence

2. Chapter 1: What Is Cyber Threat Intelligence? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: What Is Threat Hunting?

4. Chapter 3: Where Does the Data Come From?

5. Section 2: Understanding the Adversary

6. Chapter 4: Mapping the Adversary

7. Chapter 5: Working with Data

8. Chapter 6: Emulating the Adversary

9. Section 3: Working with a Research Environment

10. Chapter 7: Creating a Research Environment

11. Chapter 8: How to Query the Data

12. Chapter 9: Hunting for the Adversary

13. Chapter 10: Importance of Documenting and Automating the Process

14. Section 4: Communicating to Succeed

15. Chapter 11: Assessing Data Quality

16. Chapter 12: Understanding the Output

17. Chapter 13: Defining Good Metrics to Track Success

18. Chapter 14: Engaging the Response Team and Communicating the Result to Executives

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Appendix – The State of the Hunt

The impact of communication on the success of the threat hunting program

We are going to close this chapter by talking about how to communicate your team results to senior management. You can have the best hunting team in your entire country and still your program won't be successful if you don't get the necessary funding for it to run, no matter what results you are obtaining.

In order to get the necessary funding, you need to be able to effectively communicate with senior management how exactly the investment of time and money your team is making is generating a positive impact on the organization's results. We are going to cover some key communication strategies that you could use to describe the Return on Investment (ROI) of your hunting team.

The first thing we need to remember, as we mentioned in Chapter 13, Defining Good Metrics to Track Success, is that you need to make sure that the stakeholders know that the main objective of your program is not finding...