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

Building a hypothesis

Throughout this chapter, it has been stated that one of the main characteristics of threat hunting is that it is a human-driven activity and that it cannot be fully automated. At the core of this process is generating the hunt's hypothesis, which refers to the threats to the organization's environment that are in line with the threat hunter's hunches and how to detect them. Hypotheses are partially based on observation, where we notice deviations from the baseline, and partially on information, which could come from experience or from other sources.

Crafting the hypothesis is crucial to producing good hunts. A poorly defined hypothesis will lead to wrong results or conclusions. This will most likely have a negative impact on the organization since defense and visualization gaps are going to be missed and provide a safe passage to the adversary. Having a lack of adequate visualization is an organization's worst enemy, since it generates a...