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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Summary

Building practical skills on CTI processes is what makes a CTI analyst valuable. A CTI analyst should be able to use manual methods as well as tools to answer CTI questions. The best way to build skills is through exercises, training, and researching about threat intelligence. This chapter has looked at developing and sharing IOCs, demonstrating how to create YARA rules for security enhancement, and sharing intelligence using platforms such as Anomali STAXX and AlienVault OTX. It has also illustrated methods to build threat activity groups, track campaigns, and attribute cyber activities to state-sponsored (nation-state) and non-state-sponsored threat actors. As a CTI analyst, you have also become familiar with analyzing competing hypotheses.

CTI is the piece of the puzzle that makes protection against cyber threats effective. At the center of the security functions, it powers SOCs and changes them from known traditional SOCs to intelligence-driven SOCs. Security teams...