Threat Intelligence: Making your Bespoke Security Operations Centre Work for You
Previously, we’ve spoken about the following subjects
that are related to your Bespoke Security Operations Centre for your business:
·
What
elements need to be used in the design process?
·
What
your requirements will be as you build your SOC.
·
How
your SOC will identify potential threats to your business and your customers.
Why
choose Maximum Networks as your Managed Outsourced IT Support Partner?
We have a wide range of IT
desktop solutions and print services for any business across the UK.
Not only do we offer high-quality services across IT Services we offer business broadband
solutions, telecommunications and much, much more.
The Role of Threat Intelligence within Your Bespoke
Security Operations Centre
Threat intelligence refers to
knowledge of an attacker’s activities. This can range from a simple narrative
around a threat actor’s motivations all the way up to in-depth technical
descriptions of an attacker’s tactics, techniques and procedures.
So, let’s ask the question: What is Threat Intelligence?
Answer: Threat intelligence is
data that is collected, processed, and analysed to understand a threat actor’s
motives, targets, and attack behaviours. Threat intelligence enables us to make
faster, more informed, data-backed security decisions and change their
behaviour from reactive to proactive in the fight against threat actors.
If you already have a Managed
Outsourced IT Support Partner working within your business, then Threat
Intelligence will typically be conducted by them.
The benefit to this is your managed it services
birmingham Partner is already familiar with your technology, processes,
and sector of business.
This means that they can employ
an effective Threat Intelligence strategy that will help defend your business
and your client base from cyber-attacks.
Put simply: Threat Intelligence
is a key part of attempting to stay ahead, or at least, stay on par with
attackers, whilst allowing you to improve your bespoke SOC and its protection
levels.
The Threat Intelligence Platform
One of the tools in the armoury
of your Managed Outsourced IT Support Partner as they make sure that your SOC
is providing the best protection that it can offer, is using a Threat
Intelligence Platform.
So, let’s ask the question: What is a Threat Intelligence
Platform?
Answer: A threat intelligence
platform automates the collection, aggregation, and reconciliation of external
threat data, providing security teams with the most recent threat insights to
reduce threat risks relevant to their organisation.
A Threat Intelligence Platform is
a place for your SOC to store, correlate and manage Threat Intelligence sources
and potential sources.
They are configured to analyse
Threat Intelligence feeds from Threat Intelligence providers and are linked to
your SIEM tool to enable automated detection of Indicators of Compromise.
There are a multitude of Threat
Intelligence Platforms available on the market, so it’s important that your Managed
Outsourced IT Support Partner finds a tool that works for you.
Already knowledgeable in the
business sector you operate in and with your infrastructure, including
hardware, firmware and software, they are in the ideal position to put the
right tools to work.
Once you have a Threat
Intelligence Platform in place, you’ll need to have Threat Intelligence Feeds
in place that provide your SOC with the most value to identify the threats out
there.
Open-source feeds provide your
organisation with a range of intelligence as well as commercial feeds that
provide a slightly more bespoke service.
The key parts of implementing a Threat Intelligence
Platform are:
·
Make
sure that you don’t drown in low confidence, out-of-date Indicators of
Compromise – Remember, it is very easy for attackers to change an IP address.
Be wary that some threat feeds may not include “best before” dates and over
time this could lead to the SOC inadvertently flagging legitimate addresses as
malicious.
·
Don’t
underestimate the value of triaging intelligence (whitepapers, reports, news
articles) – ensuring that analysts have time to read and digest intelligence
reports that will lead to better understanding.
·
Score
intelligence according to value – If it constantly produces false positives,
then perhaps review the sources you’re using.
·
Make
sure that your Threat Intelligence sources are providing value. It is a very
competitive market, so there’s no need to put all your eggs in one basket.
So, let’s ask the question: What
are Indicators of Compromise?
Answer: An Indicator of
Compromise (IOC) is a piece of digital forensics that suggests that an endpoint
or network may have been breached.
Just as with physical evidence,
these digital clues help information security professionals identify malicious
activity or security threats, such as data breaches, insider threats or malware
attacks.
Unfortunately, Indicators of
Compromise monitoring are reactive in nature, which means that if an
organisation finds an indicator, it is almost certain that they have already
been compromised.
That said, if the event is in
progress, the quick detection of an Indicator of Compromise could help contain
attacks earlier in the attack lifecycle, thus limiting their impact on the
business.
Examples of Indicators of
Compromise
·
What
are the warning signs that the security team is looking for when investigating
cyber threats and attacks? Some indicators of compromise include:
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Unusual
inbound and outbound network traffic
·
Geographic
irregularities, such as traffic from countries or locations where the
organization does not have a presence.
·
Unknown
applications within the system
·
Unusual
activity from administrator or privileged accounts, including requests for
additional permissions.
·
An
uptick in incorrect logins or access requests that may indicate brute force
attacks.
·
Anomalous
activity, such as an increase in database read volume.
·
Large
numbers of requests for the same file
·
Suspicious
registry or system file changes
·
Unusual
Domain Name Servers (DNS) requests and registry configurations
·
Unauthorized
settings changes, including mobile device profiles.
·
Large
amounts of compressed files or data bundles in incorrect or unexplained
locations
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