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Practical Threat Intelligence and Data-Driven Threat Hunting

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838556372
Pages 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Valentina Costa-Gazcón Valentina Costa-Gazcón
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Valentina Costa-Gazcón is a cyber threat intelligence analyst who specializes in tracking Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) worldwide, using the MITRE ATT&CK Framework to analyze their tools, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). She is a self-taught developer and threat hunter with a degree in translation and interpretation from the Universidad de Málaga (UMA) and a cyber security diploma from Argentina's Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN). Valentina also is one of the founders of the BlueSpace community (BlueSpaceSec) and one of the core members of Open Threat Research, founded by Roberto Rodriguez (OTR_Community).
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Cyber Threat Intelligence
2. Chapter 1: What Is Cyber Threat Intelligence? 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 19. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix – The State of the Hunt

Summary

In this chapter, we reviewed possible threat hunting metrics that will help you track the success of your program and different approaches you can use to increase its maturity and track your team's results. After reaching this part of the book, the only thing left to do is to pass on the information to senior management.

In the next chapter, we are going to cover some basic aspects that will help you with communicating your team's results.

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Authors (1)

Profile icon Valentina Costa-Gazcón
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Valentina Costa-Gazcón is a cyber threat intelligence analyst who specializes in tracking Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) worldwide, using the MITRE ATT&CK Framework to analyze their tools, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). She is a self-taught developer and threat hunter with a degree in translation and interpretation from the Universidad de Málaga (UMA) and a cyber security diploma from Argentina's Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN). Valentina also is one of the founders of the BlueSpace community (BlueSpaceSec) and one of the core members of Open Threat Research, founded by Roberto Rodriguez (OTR_Community).
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