Ransomware attacks have become the strongest and most persistent threat for many companies around the globe. Building an effective incident response plan to prevent a ransomware attack is crucial and may help you avoid heavy losses. Incident Response Techniques for Ransomware Attacks is designed to help you do just that.
This book starts by discussing the history of ransomware, showing you how the threat landscape has changed over the years, while also covering the process of incident response in detail. You’ll then learn how to collect and produce ransomware-related cyber threat intelligence and look at threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures. Next, the book focuses on various forensic artifacts in order to reconstruct each stage of a human-operated ransomware attack life cycle. In the concluding chapters, you’ll get to grips with various kill chains and discover a new one: the Unified Ransomware Kill Chain.
By the end of this ransomware book, you’ll be equipped with the skills you need to build an incident response strategy for all ransomware attacks.
publication date
2022-04-14
what you will learn
Understand the modern ransomware threat landscape
Explore the incident response process in the context of ransomware
Discover how to collect and produce ransomware-related cyber threat intelligence
Use forensic methods to collect relevant artifacts during incident response
Interpret collected data to understand threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures
Understand how to reconstruct the ransomware attack kill chain
key features
Understand modern human-operated cyber attacks, focusing on threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures * Collect and analyze ransomware-related cyber threat intelligence from various sources * Use forensic methods and tools to reconstruct ransomware attacks and prevent them in the early stages
approach
Learn how to respond to modern human-operated ransomware attacks efficiently and effectively using intelligence-driven approaches, focusing on real-world scenarios, deconstructing threat actors' tactics, techniques and procedures using forensic methods and cutting-edge tools
audience
This book is for security researchers, security analysts, or anyone in the incident response landscape who is responsible for building an incident response model for ransomware attacks. A basic understanding of cyber threats will be helpful to get the most out of this book.
short description
The evolving ransomware threat landscape brings new challenges to the security personnel of many organizations. The effects of human-operated attacks make practical security approaches the need of the hour as proper response and investigation are crucial. This book discusses how to use these approaches, focusing on real-world scenarios and tools.
subtitle
Understand modern ransomware attacks and build an incident response strategy to work through them
keywords
forensics book; the kill chain; ransomware software; digital forensics book; cyber threat hunting; intelligence driven incident response; cyberattack
Product ISBN
9781803240442
