The Cyber Intelligence Handbook

Seize the initiative from cyber-threat actors by applying cyber intelligence to create threat-driven cybersecurity operations! Written by an intelligence professional with 40 years of experience applying intelligence to counter threats from a wide range of determined adversaries, this book provides common sense practices for establishing and growing responsive cyber intelligence capabilities customized to organization needs, regardless of size or industry. Readers will •What cyber intelligence is and how to apply it to deter, detect, and defeat malicious cyber-threat actors targeting your networks and data;•How to characterize threats and threat actors with precision to enable all relevant stakeholders to contribute to desired security outcomes;•A three-step planning approach that allows cyber intelligence customers to define and prioritize their needs;•How to construct a simplified cyber intelligence process that distills decades of national-level intelligence community doctrine into a sets of clearly defined, mutually supporting actions that will produce repeatable and measureable results from the outset;•How to employ advanced analytic frameworks to apply intelligence as an operational function that can inform security design and execution to complicate actions for would be attackers.