Scott Roberts IntelligenceDriven Incident Respo

An effectively designed incident response plan is crucial when dealing with the aftermath of an online security breach. It allows your team to pinpoint attackers and understand their tactics. However, it's the application of a cyber threat intelligence mindset that unlocks the full potential of this information. This practical guide offers insights into the fundamentals of intelligence analysis and demonstrates how to integrate these techniques into your incident response strategy. Each approach strengthens the other: threat intelligence enhances incident response, while incident response creates valuable threat intelligence. This book is an essential resource for incident managers, malware analysts, reverse engineers, digital forensics experts, and intelligence analysts, offering guidance on how to leverage this symbiotic relationship effectively. The comprehensive text is structured into three parts: initially, it introduces the core concepts of cyber threat intelligence, the intelligence process, and the incident response process, illustrating how they interconnect. Then, it provides a practical walkthrough of the intelligence-driven incident response (IDIR) process, utilizing the F3EAD model—Find, Fix, Finish, Exploit, Analyze, and Disseminate. Finally, it examines broader aspects of IDIR, such as constructing intelligence teams, transcending individual incident-response cases.