Applied Incident Response

By: Steve Anson

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eText | 14 January 2020 | Edition Number 1

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Incident response is critical for the active defense of any network, and incident responders need up-to-date, immediately applicable techniques with which to engage the adversary. Applied Incident Response details effective ways to respond to advanced attacks against local and remote network resources, providing proven response techniques and a framework through which to apply them. As a starting point for new incident handlers, or as a technical reference for hardened IR veterans, this book details the latest techniques for responding to threats against your network, including:

Preparing your environment for effective incident response
Leveraging MITRE ATT&CK and threat intelligence for active network defense
Local and remote triage of systems using PowerShell, WMIC, and open-source tools
Acquiring RAM and disk images locally and remotely
Analyzing RAM with Volatility and Rekall
Deep-dive forensic analysis of system drives using open-source or commercial tools
Leveraging Security Onion and Elastic Stack for network security monitoring
Techniques for log analysis and aggregating high-value logs
Static and dynamic analysis of malware with YARA rules, FLARE VM, and Cuckoo Sandbox
Detecting and responding to lateral movement techniques, including pass-the-hash, pass-the-ticket, Kerberoasting, malicious use of PowerShell, and many more
Effective threat hunting techniques
Adversary emulation with Atomic Red Team
Improving preventive and detective controls