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The Foundations of Threat Hunting

You're reading from   The Foundations of Threat Hunting Organize and design effective cyber threat hunts to meet business needs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803242996
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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William Copeland William Copeland
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Chad Maurice Chad Maurice
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Jeremiah Ginn Jeremiah Ginn
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Preparation – Why and How to Start the Hunting Process
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Threat Hunting FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Requirements and Motivations 4. Chapter 3: Team Construct 5. Chapter 4: Communication Breakdown 6. Chapter 5: Methodologies 7. Chapter 6: Threat Intelligence 8. Chapter 7: Planning 9. Part 2: Execution – Conducting a Hunt
10. Chapter 8: Defending the Defenders 11. Chapter 9: Hardware and Toolsets 12. Chapter 10: Data Analysis 13. Chapter 11: Documentation 14. Part 3: Recovery – Post-Hunt Activity
15. Chapter 12: Deliverables 16. Chapter 13: Post-Hunt Activity and Maturing a Team 17. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Software tools

When choosing software to utilize, there are a few things that the team will need to take into consideration:

  • Team experience with toolsets for both using them and maintaining them.
  • Existing capabilities inherit on the target network.
  • Authorization to deploy new capabilities on the target network.
  • Any known vulnerability or alternate uses of the toolset. Ensure that nothing being employed by the team or deployed on the network can be utilized by an adversary to their advantage.
  • The perception intended to present to an adversary. Tanium showing up might not come across as defensive as it has a wide range of uses by maintenance, but a Carbon Black agent would raise suspicions as it is purely for defense.

Software is a place where some leaders can fall into a trap of thinking more is better. We have all heard people asking the question what else do you need? Piling more and more toolsets into a hunter's toolbox does not make them more...

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