Crafting the InfoSec Playbook: Security Monitoring and Incident Response Master Plan

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 playbook by developing strategy, technique, and architecture.

• Learn incident response fundamentals—and the importance of getting back to basics
• Understand threats you face and what you should be protecting
• Collect, mine, organize, and analyze as many relevant data sources as possible
• Build your own playbook of repeatable methods for security monitoring and response
• Learn how to put your plan into action and keep it running smoothly
• Select the right monitoring and detection tools for your environment
• Develop queries to help you sort through data and create valuable reports
• Know what actions to take during the incident response phase

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Incident Response Fundamentals
Chapter 2. What Are You Trying to Protect?
Chapter 3. What Are the Threats?
Chapter 4. A Data-Centric Approach to Security Monitoring
Chapter 5. Enter the Playbook
Chapter 6. Operationalize!
Chapter 7. Tools of the Trade
Chapter 8. Queries and Reports
Chapter 9. Advanced Querying
Chapter 10. I’ve Got Incidents Now! How Do I Respond?
Chapter 11. How to Stay Relevant