Practical Threat Intelligence and Data-Driven Threat Hunting

Chapter 1: What Is Cyber Threat Intelligence?

In order to perform threat hunting, it is especially important to have at least a basic understanding of the main cyber threat intelligence concepts. The objective of this chapter is to help you become familiar with the concepts and terminology that are going to be used throughout this book.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

• Cyber threat intelligence
• The intelligence cycle
• Defining your IR
• The collection process
• Processing and exploitation
• Bias and analysis

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Cyber threat intelligence

It is not the goal of this book to deep dive into complex issues surrounding the different definitions of intelligence and the multiple aspects of intelligence theory. This ...