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The Foundations of Threat Hunting

You're reading from   The Foundations of Threat Hunting Organize and design effective cyber threat hunts to meet business needs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803242996
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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William Copeland William Copeland
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Chad Maurice Chad Maurice
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Jeremiah Ginn Jeremiah Ginn
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Preparation – Why and How to Start the Hunting Process
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Threat Hunting FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Requirements and Motivations 4. Chapter 3: Team Construct 5. Chapter 4: Communication Breakdown 6. Chapter 5: Methodologies 7. Chapter 6: Threat Intelligence 8. Chapter 7: Planning 9. Part 2: Execution – Conducting a Hunt
10. Chapter 8: Defending the Defenders 11. Chapter 9: Hardware and Toolsets 12. Chapter 10: Data Analysis 13. Chapter 11: Documentation 14. Part 3: Recovery – Post-Hunt Activity
15. Chapter 12: Deliverables 16. Chapter 13: Post-Hunt Activity and Maturing a Team 17. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Chapter 11: Documentation

If it has not been clear thus far in this book, communication is an exceedingly important concept to understand at this point. Communication is key at each step of a threat hunt. If any member of the team and organization fails to effectively communicate, then they can cause the entire team and organization to incur a penalty, leading to a potential threat-hunt failure.

Communication in the short term can be accomplished in many different forms. However, long-term communication—for example, an understanding that will last more than an hour—needs to be recorded for future reference. Take to heart the following rule: If it isn't written down, then there is no evidence that it did or did not occur. This applies to everyone: threat-hunt team members, individuals in leadership roles, and organizational stakeholders.

While there are a large number of potential documentation areas that a team would want to document, things such as a daily...

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