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

Chapter 7: Creating a Research Environment

In this chapter, we are going to learn how to set up a research environment to simulate threats and carry out our hunts. We are going to start by simulating an organizational environment with Windows Server and Windows 10, establishing a logging policy for centralizing data in an ELK environment. Finally, we are going to close this chapter by reviewing some of the other options we have to save us some of the trouble of building everything from scratch.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following topics: