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

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Researching adversaries and threat actors

It would be challenging to know who the actor is behind an attack in the first security incident. However, the more you know about different adversaries, the more information you will have to assess the incident and decide how best to act when considering the characteristics of a security breach.

Fortunately, there is a lot of threat intelligence information about different malicious campaigns and the threat actors behind them. Some security companies have documented details behind high-profile cyberattacks and the groups related to these attacks. You can consult this information on sites such as MITRE ATT&CK (https://attack.mitre.org/groups/), Kaspersky (https://apt.securelist.com/), and Mandiant (https://www.mandiant.com/resources/apt-groups), among others.

However, sometimes, it is handy to create your own intelligence documentation with specific threat actors' profiles. The key elements to consider when profiling threat...