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Incident Response for Windows: Adapt effective strategies for managing sophisticated cyberattacks targeting Windows systems
Author(s): Anatoly Tykushin (Author), Svetlana Ostrovskaya (Author)
- Publisher: Packt Publishing
- Publication Date: 23 Aug. 2024
- Language: English
- Print length: 244 pages
- ISBN-10: 1804619329
- ISBN-13: 9781804619322
Book Description
Discover modern cyber threats, their attack life cycles, and adversary tactics while learning to build effective incident response, remediation, and prevention strategies to strengthen your organization’s cybersecurity defenses
Key Features
- Understand modern cyber threats by exploring advanced tactics, techniques, and real-world case studies
- Develop scalable incident response plans to protect Windows environments from sophisticated attacks
- Master the development of efficient incident remediation and prevention strategies
- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Book Description
Cybersecurity threats are constantly evolving, posing serious risks to organizations. Incident Response for Windows, by cybersecurity experts Anatoly Tykushin and Svetlana Ostrovskaya, provides a practical hands-on guide to mitigating threats in Windows environments, drawing from their real-world experience in incident response and digital forensics.
Designed for cybersecurity professionals, IT administrators, and digital forensics practitioners, the book covers the stages of modern cyberattacks, including reconnaissance, infiltration, network propagation, and data exfiltration. It takes a step-by-step approach to incident response, from preparation and detection to containment, eradication, and recovery. You will also explore Windows endpoint forensic evidence and essential tools for gaining visibility into Windows infrastructure. The final chapters focus on threat hunting and proactive strategies to identify cyber incidents before they escalate.
By the end of this book, you will gain expertise in forensic evidence collection, threat hunting, containment, eradication, and recovery, equipping them to detect, analyze, and respond to cyber threats while strengthening your organization’s security posture
What you will learn
- Explore diverse approaches and investigative procedures applicable to any Windows system
- Grasp various techniques to analyze Windows-based endpoints
- Discover how to conduct infrastructure-wide analyses to identify the scope of cybersecurity incidents
- Develop effective strategies for incident remediation and prevention
- Attain comprehensive infrastructure visibility and establish a threat hunting process
- Execute incident reporting procedures effectively
Who this book is for
This book is for IT professionals, Windows IT administrators, cybersecurity practitioners, and incident response teams, including SOC teams, responsible for managing cybersecurity incidents in Windows-based environments. Specifically, system administrators, security analysts, and network engineers tasked with maintaining the security of Windows systems and networks will find this book indispensable. Basic understanding of Windows systems and cybersecurity concepts is needed to grasp the concepts in this book.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to the Threat Landscape
- Understanding the Attack Life Cycle
- Phases of an Efficient Incident Response on Windows Infrastructure
- Endpoint Forensic Evidence Collection
- Gaining Access to the Network
- Establishing a Foothold
- Network and Key Assets Discovery
- Network Propagation
- Data Collection and Exfiltration
- Impact
- Threat Hunting and Analysis of TTPs
- Incident Containment, Eradication, and Recovery
- Incident Investigation Closure and Reporting
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Unlike most literature, which adheres to existing methodologies, this book emphasizes the necessity for incident response specialists to operate with autonomy, continually applying new methods in a dynamic cyber world.
It draws on insights from over 30 diverse incident response cases that often challenge standard processes, and underscores the importance of understanding the varied tactics, techniques, and tools employed in actual attacks to tailor incident response effectively. You will find linked stories of real-world incident responses and learn how seasoned experts managed to help organizations restore attack kill chains, find and restore evidence, trace threat actor activity, identify vulnerabilities and blind spots exploited by threat actors, take action to expel them from compromised networks, regain control, and prevent future attacks.”
Dmitry Volkov, CEO and Co-Founder of Group-IB
About the Author
Anatoly Tykushin is a services director at Group-IB with 6 years of experience in digital forensics, incident response, compromise assessment, and threat hunting. He has created several DFIR training programs in incident response and network forensics, written several blog posts, and contributed to threat research reports. Outside of DFIR, he has a background in IT administration and DevOps, microcontroller unit development in C, and ASM.
Svetlana Ostrovskaya is a practicing specialist in digital forensics and incident response at Group-IB. She is the author of DFIR training programs and cybersecurity crisis management workshops, and the author and co-author of blog posts, articles, and books on information security, computer forensics, and incident response.
