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

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Configuring the detection lab

Before we start the practical exercises in this chapter, we need to prepare our work environment.

To begin, start up the virtual machines that we will use throughout this chapter. To do this, start VMware Workstation Player. From there, do the following:

Start the IR-Laptop virtual machine and sign in using the following credentials:
- Username: investigator
- Password: L34rn1ng!
Start the IR-Workstation virtual machine and sign in using the following credentials:
- Username: investigator
- Password: L34rn1ng!

Once you have started both virtual machines, you can install and configure the tools that will be required to perform the practical lab exercises.

Implementing a threat hunting platform

In the previous chapter, you learned about some basic concepts for using the monitoring, detection, incident response, and orchestration Security Onion platform. As you learned, this platform contains valuable tools for active defense against threats...