You're reading from Practical Threat Intelligence and Data-Driven Threat Hunting A hands-on guide to threat hunting with the ATT&CK™ Framework and open source tools

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838556372

Length 398 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Elasticsearch

Concepts

Application Security

Author (1):

Valentina Costa-Gazcón

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Cyber Threat Intelligence

2. Chapter 1: What Is Cyber Threat Intelligence? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: What Is Threat Hunting?

4. Chapter 3: Where Does the Data Come From?

5. Section 2: Understanding the Adversary

6. Chapter 4: Mapping the Adversary

7. Chapter 5: Working with Data

8. Chapter 6: Emulating the Adversary

9. Section 3: Working with a Research Environment

10. Chapter 7: Creating a Research Environment

11. Chapter 8: How to Query the Data

12. Chapter 9: Hunting for the Adversary

13. Chapter 10: Importance of Documenting and Automating the Process

14. Section 4: Communicating to Succeed

15. Chapter 11: Assessing Data Quality

16. Chapter 12: Understanding the Output

17. Chapter 13: Defining Good Metrics to Track Success

18. Chapter 14: Engaging the Response Team and Communicating the Result to Executives

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Appendix – The State of the Hunt

Creating an adversary emulation plan

Before creating our emulation plan, we need to make sure that we understand what we mean when we talk about "adversary emulation."

What is adversary emulation?

There is not a clear definition of the concept of adversary emulation and there have even been discussions about the words used to describe the activity (see, for example, Tim MalcomVetter's article on the subject: Emulation, Simulation & False Flags (https://medium.com/@malcomvetter/emulation-simulation-false-flags-b8f660734482).

But I prefer the definition provided by Erik Van Buggenhout in his SANS Pentest Hackfest 2019 presentation: Automated adversary emulation using Caldera (also presented at BruCON: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyWJJRnTbI0), in which he defines the activity as follows:

Adversary emulation is an activity where security experts emulate how an adversary operates. The ultimate goal is to improve how resilient the organization is versus...