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

Chapter 3: Basics of the Incident Response and Triage Procedures

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery – a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

When responding to a cybersecurity incident, there are three essentials to consider:

Response time
Following appropriate procedures depending on the type of incident
Using the right tools

Every incident is unique and has very particular challenges...

We reviewed some cases in the first chapter where attackers used deception to make the response and investigations more difficult. For example, in the cyberattack against Banco de Chile, the attackers used the distraction to compromise around 9,000 devices using the KillMBR malware. The threat actors' real objective was to transfer money to another country, abusing the SWIFT money transfer system, to avoid the security staff figuring out what was happening.

An incident response...