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Operationalizing Threat Intelligence

Operationalizing Threat Intelligence

By : Wilhoit, Opacki
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Operationalizing Threat Intelligence

Operationalizing Threat Intelligence

4.6 (14)
By: Wilhoit, Opacki

Overview of this book

We’re living in an era where cyber threat intelligence is becoming more important. Cyber threat intelligence routinely informs tactical and strategic decision-making throughout organizational operations. However, finding the right resources on the fundamentals of operationalizing a threat intelligence function can be challenging, and that’s where this book helps. In Operationalizing Threat Intelligence, you’ll explore cyber threat intelligence in five fundamental areas: defining threat intelligence, developing threat intelligence, collecting threat intelligence, enrichment and analysis, and finally production of threat intelligence. You’ll start by finding out what threat intelligence is and where it can be applied. Next, you’ll discover techniques for performing cyber threat intelligence collection and analysis using open source tools. The book also examines commonly used frameworks and policies as well as fundamental operational security concepts. Later, you’ll focus on enriching and analyzing threat intelligence through pivoting and threat hunting. Finally, you’ll examine detailed mechanisms for the production of intelligence. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the right tools and understand what it takes to operationalize your own threat intelligence function, from collection to production.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Section 1: What Is Threat Intelligence?
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Section 2: How to Collect Threat Intelligence
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Section 3: What to Do with Threat Intelligence

Summary

We've just gone through and thrown everything but the kitchen sink at you trying to illustrate the motivations behind starting and building a threat intelligence program! Some of the key takeaways from this chapter should be what CTI is, what its benefits are, and how it can be used by every level of employee to prioritize and improve the security posture of an organization. Further, we tried to frame what good intelligence is by utilizing several known frameworks for judging the credibility and reliability of your gathered source information. We also walked through the threat intelligence life cycle that is used to hunt, pivot, and enrich information to create CTI. Finally, we walked you through a model in which you can rate the maturity of your organization's CTI capability.

In the next chapter, we will start ramping up the technicality by introducing core concepts such as defining threat actors and campaigns, as well as looking at tools and vulnerabilities that threat actors often leverage. Further, we will clearly define threat actor types and discuss the attribution of threat actors in depth. Finally, we will introduce standardized naming conventions for identifying campaigns and TAGs and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of attribution overall.

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