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

The MITRE ATT&CK framework

Looking back at the Pyramid of Pain discussion in the previous section, we can see at the very top are the TTPs that the adversary uses. Modifying these requires additional resources and time on the adversary’s end. Focusing on TTPs from a threat intelligence and mitigation perspective also provides defenders better protection as detections are not tied to an indicator such as a domain name or IP address, which can be easily modified.

The MITRE Corporation has created the Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK) knowledge base, available at https://attack.mitre.org/. This knowledge base incorporates adversary tradecraft, tactics techniques, and adversary behaviors that run through the various stages of a cyberattack. It was started in September 2013, and, as of the time of writing, is now on its ninth version.

The ATT&CK knowledge base started out focusing on the Windows operating system but, over its lifetime...