Today, the most serious attacks and data breaches are often caused by sophisticated attackers who target specific people and organizations. These attackers make it difficult to detect threats because:
Blocking or using simple threat indicators is not enough to detect multi-phase campings and social engineering methods.
They constantly adapt new techniques, procedures, or tools to avoid strict cybersecurity measures
They also set the bar high by targeting prey’s relevant business assets, data, and business assets.
These threats can be detected using a variety of strategies. These strategies include:
Collecting as many signatures as possible, security events, threat indicators, and security events as possible
You can use the same data to create and monitor alerts within the SOC using event-management solutions and security information.
Hire a SOC analyst to examine the alerts
Use the attack analysis to stop attacks from progressing
Some of these strategies were unsuccessful, while others are more accurate.
CTIA (Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst) is a certification course that the EC council created with the help of cybersecurity and threat intelligence experts from around the world. CTIA helps businesses detect and mitigate their risks by converting unknown external or internal threats to known threats. CTIA is a high-level training program that teaches a structured strategy to build efficient threat intelligence.
CTIA certification is essential for anyone who deals with threats every day. Organizations are now looking for Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence Analysts that can convert data into intelligence using advanced strategies. CTIA’s scope is expanding day by day.
Incident Handling and Response Path
Note: This is a suggested career path that will make your journey easier. This path is not required. You can choose to take the courses in any order.
This course is open to all.
Incident response team
Hackers who are ethical
Minimum of two years experience as a Cybersecurity analyst at mid- to high level.
Engineers, Analysts and Security Practitioners. Managers.
Information Security professionals who are interested in enhancing their skills in cyber threat intelligence
Threat hunters
Consultants and analysts in threat intelligence
Malware analysts and digital forensics
SOC professionals
There are four types of teams in any organization: Red Team: These are offensive players who hack into an organization in order to find loopholes.
2. Blue Team: The blue team is a defensive player that protects the organization from the activities of the red.
3. White Team: The white teams act as referees and observe the activities of both blue and red teams.
4. Purple Team: A combination of Blue and Red teams, the Purple team is made up of both.
CTIA is now an important part of the Blue team’s work. CTIA assists blue teams by allowing them understand attackers quickly and to respond immediately. This information will be invaluable to SMBs in order to protect their organization from all threats and risks.
Three methods are available to help us detect the threat from CTIA.
1. Threat Indicators: Also known as an indicator of compromise, a threat indicator is an entity that can be used to alter the system in case of an attack. The most common types include IP addresses, reputation data for the domain and file signatures that are associated with the attack.
A malware signature is a unique identifier for a specific worm, trojan virus or other type of code. Malware files will often run on MD5 and SHA-1 algorithms. This algorithm generates a unique fingerprint that is based on a sequence of bytes. This is how your unique fingerprint will look like:
55fsjj85322hstel55knar79lk63kgeir.
IP address, URLs, and