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

Improving data quality

Although interesting and an extensive area of expertise, we are not going to focus here on all the processes that a data governance team should take care of in order to ensure data quality. There are already several books out there about data management that can help you establish reliable processes to work with your data.

We are going to suppose that the organization has already performed data asset inventories and established baselines for the data dimensions that are going to be rated. Let's suppose too that the organization has a set of data quality rules to check data against the baselines and that the data management team makes regular assessments to measure the quality of the data and the subsequent process to improve it.

Roberto Rodriguez wrote a blog post about how to deal with these issues called Ready to hunt? First, show me your data, available at https://cyberwardog.blogspot.com/2017/12/ready-to-hunt-first-show-me-your-data.html. In this...