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Gerard Johansen
Gerard Johansen
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Gerard Johansen

Gerard Johansen is an information security professional with over a decade of experience in penetration testing, vulnerability management, threat assessment modeling, and incident response. Beginning his career as a cyber crime investigator, he has also worked as a consultant and security analyst for clients and organizations ranging from healthcare to finance. He is a graduate from Norwich University, gaining an MSc in Information Assurance and also a CISSP, and is currently employed with an international information technology services firm that specializes in incident response and threat intelligence.
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Threat intelligence sources

There are three primary sources of threat intelligence that an organization can leverage. Threat intelligence can be produced by the organization in an internal process, acquired through open source methods, or, finally, through third-party threat intelligence vendors. Each organization can utilize their own internal processes to determine what their needs are and what sources to leverage.

Internally developed sources

The most complex threat intelligence sources are those that an organization internally develops. This is due to the infrastructure that is needed to obtain the individual IOCs from malware campaigns and TTPs from threat actors. To obtain IOCs, the organization can make use of honeypots...

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Digital Forensics and Incident Response - Second Edition
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Gerard Johansen

Gerard Johansen is an information security professional with over a decade of experience in penetration testing, vulnerability management, threat assessment modeling, and incident response. Beginning his career as a cyber crime investigator, he has also worked as a consultant and security analyst for clients and organizations ranging from healthcare to finance. He is a graduate from Norwich University, gaining an MSc in Information Assurance and also a CISSP, and is currently employed with an international information technology services firm that specializes in incident response and threat intelligence.
Read more about Gerard Johansen