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The Foundations of Threat Hunting

You're reading from   The Foundations of Threat Hunting Organize and design effective cyber threat hunts to meet business needs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803242996
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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William Copeland William Copeland
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Chad Maurice Chad Maurice
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Jeremiah Ginn Jeremiah Ginn
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Preparation – Why and How to Start the Hunting Process
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Threat Hunting FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Requirements and Motivations 4. Chapter 3: Team Construct 5. Chapter 4: Communication Breakdown 6. Chapter 5: Methodologies 7. Chapter 6: Threat Intelligence 8. Chapter 7: Planning 9. Part 2: Execution – Conducting a Hunt
10. Chapter 8: Defending the Defenders 11. Chapter 9: Hardware and Toolsets 12. Chapter 10: Data Analysis 13. Chapter 11: Documentation 14. Part 3: Recovery – Post-Hunt Activity
15. Chapter 12: Deliverables 16. Chapter 13: Post-Hunt Activity and Maturing a Team 17. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Data collection mindsets

There are three typical mindsets when it comes to how a team plans on collecting data during a threat hunt as well as the general day-to-day defense of a network. They are as follows:

  • Input-driven: Collect everything possible. If it has logs, then collect them and store them somewhere. The initial deployment of this method is low-effort as it just requires the added step of collecting existing logging. The downside of this mindset is that a defender can quickly be overloaded with information that does not matter.
  • Output-driven: Collect and store only specific data that is known to the team and that they care about. This is a very tailored approach and requires the defender to know what to look for. While it is easy for an analyst to digest this method, they will immediately miss anything that is unknown to them without the ability to go back and retrieve it. This means if an incident responder or hunt analyst needs to review data that is not there...
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