You're reading from Mastering Cyber Intelligence Gain comprehensive knowledge and skills to conduct threat intelligence for effective system defense

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800209404

Length 528 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Jean Nestor M. Dahj

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Cyber Threat Intelligence Life Cycle, Requirements, and Tradecraft

2. Chapter 1: Cyber Threat Intelligence Life Cycle FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Requirements and Intelligence Team Implementation

4. Chapter 3: Cyber Threat Intelligence Frameworks

5. Chapter 4: Cyber Threat Intelligence Tradecraft and Standards

6. Chapter 5: Goal Setting, Procedures for CTI Strategy, and Practical Use Cases

7. Section 2: Cyber Threat Analytical Modeling and Defensive Mechanisms

8. Chapter 6: Cyber Threat Modeling and Adversary Analysis

9. Chapter 7: Threat Intelligence Data Sources

10. Chapter 8: Effective Defense Tactics and Data Protection

11. Chapter 9: AI Applications in Cyber Threat Analytics

12. Chapter 10: Threat Modeling and Analysis – Practical Use Cases

13. Section 3: Integrating Cyber Threat Intelligence Strategy to Business processes

14. Chapter 11: Usable Security: Threat Intelligence as Part of the Process

15. Chapter 12: SIEM Solutions and Intelligence-Driven SOCs

16. Chapter 13: Threat Intelligence Metrics, Indicators of Compromise, and the Pyramid of Pain

17. Chapter 14: Threat Intelligence Reporting and Dissemination

18. Chapter 15: Threat Intelligence Sharing and Cyber Activity Attribution – Practical Use Cases

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Determined adversaries can discover vulnerabilities in software applications and code used in the target system. Zero-day exploits and other malware-free attacks present less or no evidence in the monitoring tools or logs; hence, it becomes difficult for monitoring tools to capture their presence. The question is, How can your organization know that it is under attack when there is no IOC alert?

IOAs focus on proactive security by detecting the adversary's intent. Contrary to IOCs that represent pieces of evidence of an attack or breach, IOAs relate to the steps and actions that an adversary must undertake to compromise a system. While there are so many explanations of IOAs, the most straightforward understanding is that IOAs are real-time indicators that sit at the tactics and techniques level of the TTPs. Instead of focusing on the procedures used by the adversaries, you focus on the adversary's behavior. Behavioral IOCs are close to IOAs, focusing...