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

Testing yourself

This section is meant to be a little test for Chapter 10, Importance of Documenting and Automating the Process, Chapter 11, Assessing Data Quality, and Chapter 12, Understanding the Output, as well as this one.

Try to answer the following questions to see how much of what you have been reading you have understood:

Keeping a good documentation process helps with what?
A) Preventing knowledge hoarding and forgetting what processes you implemented a long time ago.
B) New hires and communication with C-level.
C) Avoiding hunting repetition.
D) All of the above.
5W1H stands for what?
A) What caused? What for? Where to start? Where to finish? When? How?
B) What? Who? Where? When? Why? How?
C) What? Who? Whom? Where? When? How?
When talking about threat hunting automation, we distinguish at least what?
A) 5 axes: Data collection, attribute or factor identification, data enrichment, hunting quantification, and successful hunts
B) 4 axes: Data collection, event analysis...