Chapter 6

External intelligence sources

Abstract

The goal of this chapter is to help security teams fuse external information to their internal intelligence cycle. In addition to fusing intelligence into day-to-day security services, the chapter also covers using intelligence to inform incident response and zero-day threats. Finally, the chapter also touches on YARA and CRITs.

Keywords

Collaborative research into threats (CRITs)
YARA
incident response
open source intelligence (OSINT)
zero-day
advanced persistent threat
finished intelligence (FINTEL)
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)
Common Platform Enumeration (CPE)
Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP)
cyber threat intelligence
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