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Practical Threat Intelligence and Data-Driven Threat Hunting

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838556372
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

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 19. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix – The State of the Hunt

The Threat Hunting Maturity Model

The composition of the threat hunting team and the time dedicated to hunting itself is going to be determined by the size and needs of your organization. When there is no budget for a dedicated team, the time for the hunt is going to come out of the work schedules of other security analysts. In this scenario, the analysts are usually part of the SOC or incident response team.

So, if the team has limited resources, in order to carry out a successful threat hunting program, it is necessary for us to carefully plan and prepare the hunt, as well as combine our processes and experiences with our great knowledge of the tools, the techniques, and the technology we are using. Here is where David Bianco's Threat Hunting Maturity Model can help us determine where we are standing and what we need to do in order to grow our hunting team.

Determining our maturity model

All organizations can perform threat hunting, but in order to do it effectively...

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