Book Description

Knowing your threat actors together with your weaknesses and the technology will master your defense KEY FEATURES ● Gain practical experience with cyber threat intelligence by using the book's lab sections. ● Improve your CTI skills by designing a threat intelligence system. ● Assisting you in bridging the gap between cybersecurity teams. ● Developing your knowledge of Cyber Intelligence tools and how to choose them. DESCRIPTION When your business assets are threatened or exposed to cyber risk, you want a high-quality threat hunting team armed with cutting-edge threat intelligence to build the shield. Unfortunately, regardless of how effective your cyber defense solutions are, if you are unfamiliar with the tools, strategies, and procedures used by threat actors, you will be unable to stop them. This book is intended to provide you with the practical exposure necessary to improve your cyber threat intelligence and hands-on experience with numerous CTI technologies. This book will teach you how to model threats by gathering adversarial data from various sources, pivoting on the adversarial data you have collected, developing the knowledge necessary to analyse them and discriminating between bad and good information. The book develops and hones the analytical abilities necessary for extracting, comprehending, and analyzing threats comprehensively. The readers will understand the most common indicators of vulnerability that security professionals can use to determine hacking attacks or threats in their systems quickly. In addition, the reader will investigate and illustrate ways to forecast the scope of attacks and assess the potential harm they can cause. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Hands-on experience in developing a powerful and robust threat intelligence model. ● Acquire the ability to gather, exploit, and leverage adversary data. ● Recognize the difference between bad intelligence and good intelligence. ● Creating heatmaps and various visualization reports for better insights. ● Investigate the most typical indicators of security compromise. ● Strengthen your analytical skills to understand complicated threat scenarios better. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR The book is designed for aspiring Cyber Threat Analysts, Security Analysts, Cybersecurity specialists, Security Consultants, and Network Security Professionals who wish to acquire and hone their analytical abilities to identify and counter threats quickly. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Basics of Threat Analysis and Modeling 2. Formulate a Threat Intelligence Model 3. Adversary Data Collection Sources & Methods 4. Pivot Off and Extracting Adversarial Data 5. Primary Indicators of Security Compromise 6. Identify & Build Indicators of Compromise 7. Conduct Threat Assessments In Depth 8. Produce Heat Maps, Infographics & Dashboards 9. Build Reliable & Robust Threat Intelligence System 10. Learn Statistical Approaches for Threat Intelligence 11. Develop Analytical Skills for Complex Threats 12. Planning for Disaster