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

The importance of defining good metrics

At the end of the previous chapter, we introduced the concept of metrics, why they are important, and why they should be defined beforehand. Defining good metrics will help us track the success of our hunting team, restructure or rethink our processes when necessary, and also share all that information with the executives to secure the team's funding. Metrics can be a warning mechanism to detect that something is not going quite right and that we should rethink the direction we are going in, helping us make informed decisions by comparing actual results against the expected performance. This is why you should review your metrics after performing your hunts.

Let's go back to the definition of metric: A metric is the measurement of a specific attribute or behavior of interest. But, as we mentioned in the previous chapter, metrics can be qualitative or quantitative too. When talking about measures, there are two concepts taken from...