Mastering Cyber Intelligence

Develop the analytical skills to safeguard your organization by enhancing defense mechanisms, and become a proficient threat intelligence analyst to help strategic teams make informed decisions

Is this book for you?
Are you a security professional who wants to deepen their understanding of cyber threat intelligence and discover techniques to prevent new types of threats? If so, then this book belongs on your desk
Security researchers and cybersecurity enthusiasts will also gain plenty of know-how to their arsenal with the skills covered in this book
All you need to get started is familiarity with networking and cybersecurity basics
How will you learn?
This book teaches you with practical examples — you'll get step by step instructions on how to build the analytic skills you need for detecting and preventing cyber threats
You'll also get Insights on how different types of attacks work, which will help you understand the cybersecurity landscape better
Benefit from beginner-friendly techniques to tackle complex tasks like performing intrusion analysis using the cyber threat intelligence (CTI) process, and integrating threat intelligence into your current security infrastructure
What are some of the things you'll learn in this book?
Understand the CTI lifecycle; from forming a CTI team, positioning it in the security stack, exploring CTI frameworks, platforms, and their use in the program to integrating CTI in small, medium, and large enterprises
Discover intelligence data sources and feeds while learning to perform threat modelling and adversary and threat analysis
Find out what Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) are and apply the pyramid of pain in threat detection
Get to grips with writing intelligence reports and sharing intelligence
Table of Contents
Cyber Threat Intelligence Life Cycle
Requirements and Intelligent Team Implementation
Cyber Threat Intelligence Frameworks
Cyber Threat Intelligence Tradecraft and Standards
Goals Setting, procedures for CTI Strategy, and Practical Use Cases
Cyber Threat Modeling and Adversary Analysis
Threat Intelligence Data Sources
Effective Defensive Tactics and Data Protection
AI Application in Cyber Threat Analytics
Threat Modeling and Analysis: - Practical Use Cases
Usable Security: Threat Intelligence as part of the process
SIEM Solutions and Intelligence-driven SOCs
Threat Intelligence Metrics, Indicators of Compromise, and the Pyramid of Pain
Threat Intelligence Reporting and Dissemination
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