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Practical Threat Intelligence and Data-Driven Threat Hunting

You're reading from Practical Threat Intelligence and Data-Driven Threat Hunting

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Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838556372

Pages 398 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Application Security

Author (1):

Valentina Costa-Gazcón

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

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Appendix – The State of the Hunt

Technical requirements

The following are the technical requirements for this chapter:

A computer with Python 3 installed (https://www.python.org/downloads/)
Access to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework (http://attack.mitre.org/)
Access to the OSSEM project (https://bit.ly/2IWXdYx)
Access to MITRE CAR (https://car.mitre.org/)

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Authors (1)

Valentina Costa-Gazcón

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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