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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Creating IR playbooks

IR playbooks are detailed action plans that describe actions to be taken in specific security incidents. Unlike IRPs, these playbooks are more of the checklist type of actions for specific types of attacks such as phishing, information leaks, ransomware, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, defacement of a website, and so on.

The components of an IR playbook could comprise the following:

The condition that initiates an incident
Workflow of steps to follow
The incident completion status

There are several websites from where you can download IR playbook templates; these templates can be very useful, and you can use them as a basis to create your own playbooks.

Incident Playbook

Incident Playbook is a project created by the IR community to facilitate the creation of IR playbooks. You can view more details at this link: https://github.com/austinsonger/Incident-Playbook.

One interesting feature is that the playbooks seek to be aligned...