Intelligence-Driven Incident Response, 2nd Edition

Foreword to the Second Edition

The cyber threat landscape continues to outpace the numbers of talented cyber experts needed by government and industry. The raw truth is that the competition for cyber professionals is likely to get only sharper over the next five years. Generative AI and other enabling factors mean cyber incursions are becoming possible for a widening range of highly motivated actors. This, combined with our expanding digital life, makes Scott Roberts and Rebekah Brown’s second edition of Intelligence-Driven Incident Response a particularly critical and timely resource. Institutions competing for the cyber talent necessary to protect internal systems and data from the malicious activity of commercially driven criminals, “glass breaking” hacktivists, or the punitive action of geopolitical actors will need to have a strategy in place that draws top tier recruits to rewarding and meaningful cyber work and cultivates a team dynamic that is proficient at finding, fixing, and finishing cyber intruders. Roberts and Brown explain how this is done. Their book is a goldmine resource for those who are tasked with their organization’s mandate for cyber proficiency.

In this second edition, Scott Roberts and Rebekah Brown provide refinements and updates to cyber analytic concepts and processes and deliver these across a conversational, witty, and insightful text that supplies tactical and strategic best practices for enterprises at every level of cyber investment. Readers of ...