You're reading from Mastering Cyber Intelligence Gain comprehensive knowledge and skills to conduct threat intelligence for effective system defense

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800209404

Length 528 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Jean Nestor M. Dahj

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Cyber Threat Intelligence Life Cycle, Requirements, and Tradecraft

2. Chapter 1: Cyber Threat Intelligence Life Cycle FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Requirements and Intelligence Team Implementation

4. Chapter 3: Cyber Threat Intelligence Frameworks

5. Chapter 4: Cyber Threat Intelligence Tradecraft and Standards

6. Chapter 5: Goal Setting, Procedures for CTI Strategy, and Practical Use Cases

7. Section 2: Cyber Threat Analytical Modeling and Defensive Mechanisms

8. Chapter 6: Cyber Threat Modeling and Adversary Analysis

9. Chapter 7: Threat Intelligence Data Sources

10. Chapter 8: Effective Defense Tactics and Data Protection

11. Chapter 9: AI Applications in Cyber Threat Analytics

12. Chapter 10: Threat Modeling and Analysis – Practical Use Cases

13. Section 3: Integrating Cyber Threat Intelligence Strategy to Business processes

14. Chapter 11: Usable Security: Threat Intelligence as Part of the Process

15. Chapter 12: SIEM Solutions and Intelligence-Driven SOCs

16. Chapter 13: Threat Intelligence Metrics, Indicators of Compromise, and the Pyramid of Pain

17. Chapter 14: Threat Intelligence Reporting and Dissemination

18. Chapter 15: Threat Intelligence Sharing and Cyber Activity Attribution – Practical Use Cases

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Threat modeling use case

The objective of this use case is to provide a practical threat model approach to scenarios. We will use the Equifax data breach as an executive summary and the base of the modeling process.

Scenario: You are a CTI analyst in ABCompany, a credit record company that works with several partners, including banks, insurance companies, retail, and manufacturing. Your company also deals with credit disputes through an online web portal where users can log credit record issues with any organization. Due to the recent cyberattacks on the financial and insurance industries and the exposure of personal data in the sector, you have been tasked to research the 2017 Equifax data breach and extract valuable information for other security professionals operating in the design, passive defense, and active defense areas. You must also develop a threat model to identify the resources (and assets) that may be the targets, as well as identify possible TTPs that may be linked...