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Incident Response with Threat Intelligence

Incident Response with Threat Intelligence

By : Martinez
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Incident Response with Threat Intelligence

Incident Response with Threat Intelligence

4.7 (9)
By: Martinez

Overview of this book

With constantly evolving cyber threats, developing a cybersecurity incident response capability to identify and contain threats is indispensable for any organization regardless of its size. This book covers theoretical concepts and a variety of real-life scenarios that will help you to apply these concepts within your organization. Starting with the basics of incident response, the book introduces you to professional practices and advanced concepts for integrating threat hunting and threat intelligence procedures in the identification, contention, and eradication stages of the incident response cycle. As you progress through the chapters, you'll cover the different aspects of developing an incident response program. You'll learn the implementation and use of platforms such as TheHive and ELK and tools for evidence collection such as Velociraptor and KAPE before getting to grips with the integration of frameworks such as Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK for analysis and investigation. You'll also explore methodologies and tools for cyber threat hunting with Sigma and YARA rules. By the end of this book, you'll have learned everything you need to respond to cybersecurity incidents using threat intelligence.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Section 1: The Fundamentals of Incident Response
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Section 2: Getting to Know the Adversaries
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Section 3: Designing and Implementing Incident Response in Organizations
15
Section 4: Improving Threat Detection in Incident Response

Exploring the different types of threat actors

There are specific categories of threat actors, and their characteristics and motivations mainly define these categories. Different attackers can pose a risk to the organization at particular times. Therefore, according to the circumstances, it is imperative to know their categories and interests. Let's look at the main types of threat actors.

Hacktivists

The term hacktivism is a portmanteau of the words hacker and activism. These actors are related to movements that look to get attention using digital tools in a non-violent way for their ideological interests.

The motivations behind hacktivism are more related to social struggles, the search for justice, defiance of political and economic powers, and even in some cases with a certain sense of the search for anarchy, but rarely with malicious intentions.

What makes these groups dangerous is that they can sometimes be infiltrated or manipulated by people or groups outside...

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