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Mark Birch
Mark Birch
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Mark Birch

Mark Birch is an experienced courseware developer and teacher in both information systems and cyber-security. Mark has been developing content and teaching CompTIA A+ classes for more than 20 years and understands the subject area in great depth. Mark began his career working within the aerospace industry (for a major defense contractor) and has over 30 years' experience consulting, engineering, and deploying secure information systems. He has spent over 20 years working with the United States Military and United Kingdom Armed Forces, helping many students attain their learning goals. Mark has ensured that soldiers, officers, and civilians have had the best opportunities to gain cyber-security accreditation.
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Intelligence collection methods

There are multiple sources to gather intelligence. Some are automated but, in many cases, there will need to be an investment in time to truly research the available intelligence resources.

Intelligence feeds

There are many sources of intelligence that can be displayed in a dashboard format. We might want to see threat maps from a live feed. A good example would be showing the current activity globally for things like botnets and command and control (C2) servers. There is a good example hosted by spamhaus.com, which can be found at the following link: https://www.spamhaus.com/threat-map/. There are many good open source options and many commercial (paid for) options from security organizations such as Fortinet, FireEye, Symantec, and many others. In the United Kingdom, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) offers a free threat feed, but only to affiliated government departments.

A good example of an all-round cyber threat feed can be found...

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CompTIA CASP+ CAS-004 Certification Guide
Published in: Mar 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801816779

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Mark Birch

Mark Birch is an experienced courseware developer and teacher in both information systems and cyber-security. Mark has been developing content and teaching CompTIA A+ classes for more than 20 years and understands the subject area in great depth. Mark began his career working within the aerospace industry (for a major defense contractor) and has over 30 years' experience consulting, engineering, and deploying secure information systems. He has spent over 20 years working with the United States Military and United Kingdom Armed Forces, helping many students attain their learning goals. Mark has ensured that soldiers, officers, and civilians have had the best opportunities to gain cyber-security accreditation.
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