You're reading from Digital Forensics and Incident Response Incident response tools and techniques for effective cyber threat response

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803238678

Length 532 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Concepts

Forensics

Author (1):

Gerard Johansen

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Foundations of Incident Response and Digital Forensics

2. Chapter 1: Understanding Incident Response FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Managing Cyber Incidents

4. Chapter 3: Fundamentals of Digital Forensics

5. Chapter 4: Investigation Methodology

6. Part 2: Evidence Acquisition

7. Chapter 5: Collecting Network Evidence

8. Chapter 6: Acquiring Host-Based Evidence

9. Chapter 7: Remote Evidence Collection

10. Chapter 8: Forensic Imaging

11. Part 3: Evidence Analysis

12. Chapter 9: Analyzing Network Evidence

13. Chapter 10: Analyzing System Memory

14. Chapter 11: Analyzing System Storage

15. Chapter 12: Analyzing Log Files

16. Chapter 13: Writing the Incident Report

17. Part 4: Ransomware Incident Response

18. Chapter 14: Ransomware Preparation and Response

19. Chapter 15: Ransomware Investigations

20. Part 5: Threat Intelligence and Hunting

21. Chapter 16: Malware Analysis for Incident Response

22. Chapter 17: Leveraging Threat Intelligence

23. Chapter 18: Threat Hunting

24. Assessments

25. Index

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Appendix

Proper ransomware preparation

Ransomware attacks are devastating to an enterprise. Not many incidents short of a natural disaster have the impact that a ransomware attack has. While an APT-style network intrusion that aims to gain access to confidential data is severe, they often do not leave the entire network encrypted, especially if they are attempting to maintain a level of stealth so that the intrusion goes undetected.

In preparing for a ransomware attack, organizations should focus on two specific areas. The first is to make the network and endpoints resilient to the impact of a ransomware attack. This approach functions under the assumption that the threat actor may gain access to a system, but that proper preparation will leave them with little in terms of tools or methods to carry their attack any further from an initial foothold. The second preparation step is to ensure that the CSIRT is familiar with the TTPs of ransomware threat actors and is ready to meet the challenge...