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

Sourcing threat intelligence

There are three primary sources of threat intelligence that an organization can leverage. Threat intelligence can be produced by the organization in an internal process, acquired through open source methods, or, finally, through third-party threat intelligence vendors. Each organization can utilize its own internal processes to determine what its needs are and what sources to leverage.

Internally developed sources

The most complex threat intelligence sources are those that an organization internally develops. This is due to the infrastructure that is needed to obtain the individual IOCs from malware campaigns and TTPs from threat actors. To obtain IOCs, the organization can make use of honeypots or other deliberately vulnerable systems to acquire unique malware samples. They will also need to have the expertise and systems available to not only evaluate suspected malware but reverse engineer it. From there, they would be able to extract the individual...