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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Chapter 5: Identifying and Profiling Threat Actors

Identifying the potential kind of threat actor behind a cyberattack is one of the most important things you need to pay attention to when responding to a cybersecurity incident, and you can achieve this by analyzing in detail the characteristics and context of the attack.

Knowing in advance the different attackers' profiles and their intentions behind an attack is a big help because you can anticipate their moves, and it is also helpful in developing strategies to respond to and contain these attacks efficiently.

Knowledge of adversaries is very important in incident response; when you have information about them, including their profile, capabilities, techniques, and tools, you can use it as intelligence that can be actionable in multiple ways.

In this chapter, we will study the different types of threat actors, and we will learn how to profile them based on their behavior, motivations, and mode of operation. This information...