You're reading from Incident Response with Threat Intelligence Practical insights into developing an incident response capability through intelligence-based threat hunting

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801072953

Length 468 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Information Management

Author (1):

Roberto Martinez

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The Fundamentals of Incident Response

2. Chapter 1: Threat Landscape and Cybersecurity Incidents FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Concepts of Digital Forensics and Incident Response

4. Chapter 3: Basics of the Incident Response and Triage Procedures

5. Chapter 4: Applying First Response Procedures

6. Section 2: Getting to Know the Adversaries

7. Chapter 5: Identifying and Profiling Threat Actors

8. Chapter 6: Understanding the Cyber Kill Chain and the MITRE ATT&CK Framework

9. Chapter 7: Using Cyber Threat Intelligence in Incident Response

10. Section 3: Designing and Implementing Incident Response in Organizations

11. Chapter 8: Building an Incident Response Capability

12. Chapter 9: Creating Incident Response Plans and Playbooks

13. Chapter 10: Implementing an Incident Management System

14. Chapter 11: Integrating SOAR Capabilities into Incident Response

15. Section 4: Improving Threat Detection in Incident Response

16. Chapter 12: Working with Analytics and Detection Engineering in Incident Response

17. Chapter 13: Creating and Deploying Detection Rules

18. Chapter 14:  Hunting and Investigating Security Incidents

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Identifying and containing threats

As you learned in Chapter 2, Concepts of Digital Forensics and Incident Response, according to the SANS Incident Response process, phase 2 – identification, and phase 3 – containment, are essential to reduce the impact of a cyberattack, as shown in the following diagram:

Figure 12.16 – SANS incident response phases

Incident response sometimes starts with the escalation of an alert or a user reporting the disruption of a service or the discovery of a data leak. Once a case has been created regarding an incident, the next step is to follow the playbooks associated with the incident.

The more information you have about the incident, the better you can understand the nature of the attack, especially if you use frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and you have reliable threat intelligence sources of information.

However, at this point, you just have information about the incident's symptoms,...