Crafting the InfoSec playbook : security monitoring and incident response master plan / Jeff Bollinger, Brandon Enright & Matthew Valites.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bollinger, Jeff, author.

Enright, Brandon, author.

Valites, Matthew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer security--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Computer security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Beijing, [China] : O'Reilly Media, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

<div> Any good attacker will tell you that expensive security monitoring and prevention tools aren't enough to keep you secure. This practical book demonstrates a data-centric approach to distilling complex security monitoring, incident response, and threat analysis ideas into their most basic elements. You'll learn how to develop your own threat intelligence and incident detection strategy, rather than depend on security tools alone. Written by members of Cisco's Computer Security Incident Response Team, this book shows IT and information security professionals how to create an InfoSec playb

Contents:

Copyright; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Should You Read This Book?; Why We Wrote This Book; Cut to the Chase; How to Navigate This Book; Additional Resources; Conventions Used in This Book; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Incident Response Fundamentals; The Incident Response Team; Justify Your Existence; Measure Up; Who's Got My Back?; Friends on the Outside; The Tool Maketh the Team; Choose Your Own Adventure; Buy or Build?; Run the Playbook!; Chapter Summary; Chapter 2. What Are You Trying to Protect?; The Four Core Questions

There Used to Be a Doorway HereHost Attribution; Bring Your Own Metadata; Identifying the Crown Jewels; Make Your Own Sandwich; More Crown Jewels; Low-Hanging Fruit; Standard Standards; Risk Tolerance; Can I Get a Copy of Your Playbook?; Chapter Summary; Chapter 3. What Are the Threats?; "The Criminal Is the Creative Artist; the Detective Only the Critic"; Hanging Tough; Cash Rules Everything Around Me; Greed.isGood(); ; I Don't Want Your Wallet, I Want Your Phone; There's No Place Like 127.0.0.1; Let's Play Global Thermonuclear War; Defense Against the Dark Arts; Chapter Summary

Chapter 4. A Data-Centric Approach to Security MonitoringGet a Handle on Your Data; Logging Requirements; Just the Facts; Normalization; Playing Fields; Fields in Practice; Fields Within Fields; Metadata: Data About Data About Data; Metadata for Security; Blinded Me with [Data] Science!; Metadata in Practice; Context Is King; Chapter Summary; Chapter 5. Enter the Playbook; Report Identification; {UNIQUE_ID}; {HF,INV}; {EVENTSOURCE}; {REPORT_CATEGORY}; {DESCRIPTION}; Objective Statement; Result Analysis; Data Query/Code; Analyst Comments/Notes; The Framework Is Complete-Now What?

Chapter SummaryChapter 6. Operationalize!; You Are Smarter Than a Computer; People, Process, and Technology; Trusted Insiders; Don't Quit the Day Job; Critical Thinking; Systematic Approach; Playbook Management System; Measure Twice, Cut Once, Then Measure Again; Report Guidelines; Reviewing High-Fidelity Reports in Theory; Reviewing Investigative Reports in Theory; Reviewing Reports in Practice; Event Query System; Result Presentation System; Incident Handling and Remediation Systems; Case Tracking Systems; Keep It Running; Keep It Fresh; Chapter Summary; Chapter 7. Tools of the Trade

Defense in DepthSuccessful Incident Detection; The Security Monitoring Toolkit; Log Management: The Security Event Data Warehouse; Intrusion Detection Isn't Dead; HIP Shot; Hustle and NetFlow; DNS, the One True King; HTTP Is the Platform: Web Proxies; [rolling] Packet Capture; Applied Intelligence; Shutting the Toolbox; Putting It All Together; Chapter Summary; Chapter 8. Queries and Reports; False Positives: Every Playbook's Mortal Enemy; There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Report; An Inch Deep and a Mile Wide; A Million Monkeys with a Million Typewriters

A Chain Is Only as Strong as Its Weakest Link

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 21, 2015).

ISBN:

9781491913604

1491913606

9781491913598

1491913592

OCLC:

908685807