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

Data sources

We can mainly distinguish between three types of data sources: endpoint data sources, network data sources, and security data sources. Each data source provides activity logs. A log file is a record of events that took place in a specific environment or during software execution. Logs are made up of entries, where each entry corresponds to an event.

Although logs are very useful sources of information when we're monitoring and doing forensics analysis, dealing with them involves dealing with a whole set of problems regarding different formats and storage capacity. The Guide to Computer Security Log Management (HTTPS://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-92.pdf), written by Karen Kent and Murugiah Souppaya, offers a good insight into the most common issues and how to solve them.

Most of the examples you are going to see in the following sections have been gathered from the Windows Event Log Viewer. It would be a great practice if, while...