Integrate Threat Intelligence program into your daily security operations - Phase 3 - Effectiveness of the Analysis Process

This is the fourth article of 5 articles series on integrating threat intelligence into daily security operations. If you have not gone through the first three articles, then I highly recommend you reading that as all articles are connected to one another in a proper sequence. In this article, I am going to talk about the effectiveness of the analysis process. Here is article 1, article 2 and article 3.

Integrate Threat Intelligence program into your daily security operations - Phase 2 - Collecting Intelligence

This is the third article of 5 articles series on threat integrating threat intelligence into daily security operations. If you have not gone through the first two articles, then I highly recommend you reading that as all articles are connected to one another in a proper sequence. In this article, we are going to talk about phase 2 in which we will discuss what would be the intelligence collection strategy, methods and procedures. Here is article 1 and article 2.

Integrate Threat Intelligence program into your daily security operations - Phase 1 - Planning and Preparation

From the last article located at here, we have now a majority of information to start the preparation and planning. In this article, I am going to explain how we can initiate the project and start preparing plans and procedures. This can be done in two phases.

Initial meetings with internal team to discuss the current threat landscape of an organisation.

Review observations that can help to prepare a perfect plan.

Integrate the Threat Intelligence program into your daily security operations - Phase 0 - Introduction

There is a huge amount of the increasing use of sophisticated malware, and often organisations fail to understand the real intent of such activities by a large group of hackers, nation-sponsored attacks, organized cybercrimes, cyber terrorists. These attacks result in revenue disruption, damaging public and private reputation and demolishing business processes and workflow.

Intelligence is staying ahead of the next threat targeting to your organisation by implementing protective measures to protect your brand reputation, data, people, process and technology infrastructure. I am assuming whoever reading this article has a little bit of background knowledge on threat intelligence terminology.

Just having a Threat intelligence product itself is not sufficient, data should be collected, classified and correlated with hacking tools, tactics and techniques.

Blocking Adwares on Android - Protect against malwares and privacy

According to Mcafee, "A company from India has released an advertising software developer kit (SDK) called SilverPush that uses your phone’s microphone to listen for near-ultrasonic sounds placed in TV, radio and Web advertisements. Once SilverPush detects the signal, it collects data from your device and sends information about your device back to the advertiser. While this is not a piece of malware, it is a huge concern from a privacy perspective. It collects personal information from your device, including, but not limited to:

Basic Malware Analysis Techniques

Malware analysis is an essential activity of being security analyst. In this post I am going to provide a method of investigating windows machine for any malware instances. In this post you will learn how to do basic investigation in order to identify malware on windows system. Not only this you will also learn to know what type of mawlare that and to which domains it interacts with.

Dissecting Malware – Static Analysis of Malware

This article will be showing you how doing static malware analysis. Which are the processes involved within a static analysis. Static malware analysis is the first essential step taken by the malware analysts or reverse engineers working under forensics department.

Static Malware Analysis

Best and childish way to analyze malware is to scan it with multiple antivirus services. There are ton of antivirus available in the world, so your malware will surely be identified by at least any of them from the world. What exactly antivirus does that, they have the thousands of malicious file signatures and patterns within themselves. So they scan malware and if the file pattern gets matched with their database, it gets detected.