{"product_id":"blue-team-handbook-soc-siem-and-threat-hunting-v102-a-condensed-guide-for-the-security-operations-team-and-threat-hunter-9781091493896","title":"Blue Team Handbook: SOC  SIEM  and Threat Hunting (V1.02): A Condensed Guide for the Security Operations Team and Threat Hunter","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlue Team Handbook: SOC  SIEM  and Threat Hunting Use Cases is having an amazing impact on Security Operations worldwide. BTHb:SOCTH is the go to guiding book for new staff at a top 10 MSSP  integrated into University curriculum  and cited in top ten courses from a major information security training company. This listing is for V1.02.BTHb:SOCTH provides the security practitioner with numerous field notes on building a security operations team  managing SIEM  and mining data sources to get the maximum amount of information out of them with a threat hunting approach. The author shares his fifteen years of experience with SIEMs and security operations is a no frills  just information format. Don Murdoch has implemented five major platforms  integrated over one hundred data sources into various platforms  and ran an MSSP practice for two years.This book covers the topics below using a zero fluff approach as if you hired him as a security consultant and were sitting across the table with him (or her).The book begins with a discussion for professionals to help them build a successful business case and a project plan  decide on SOC tier models  anticipate and answer tough questions you need to consider when proposing a SOC  and considerations in building a logging infrastructure. The book goes through numerous data sources that feed a SOC and SIEM and provides specific real world guidance on how to use those data sources to best possible effect. Most of the examples presented were implemented in one organization or another. These uses cases explain on what to monitor  how to use a SIEM and how to use the data coming into the platform  both questions that Don found is often answered poorly by many vendors. Several business concepts are also introduced  because they are often overlooked by IT: value chain  PESTL  and SWOT. Major sections include:An inventory of Security Operations Center (SOC) Services.Metrics  with a focus on objective measurements for the SOC  for analysts  and for SIEMs.SOC staff onboarding  training topics  and desirable skills. Along these lines  there is a chapter on a day in the life of a SOC analyst.Maturity analysis for the SOC and the log management program. Applying a Threat Hunt mindset to the SOC. A full use case template that was used within two major Fortune 500 companies  and is in active use by one major SIEM vendor  along with a complete example of how to build a SOC and SIEM focused use case. You can see the corresponding discussion of this chapter on YouTube. Just search for the 2017 Security Onion conference for the presentation.Critical topics in deploying SIEM based on experience deploying five different technical platforms for nineteen different organizations in education  nonprofit  and commercial enterprises from 160 to 30 000 personnel.Understanding why SIEM deployments fail with actionable compensators. Real life experiences getting data into SIEM platforms and the considerations for the many different ways to provide data. Issues relating to time  time management  and time zones.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67904791740469,"sku":"ByrdShop_1091493898","price":28.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781091493896.jpg?v=1793852574","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/blue-team-handbook-soc-siem-and-threat-hunting-v102-a-condensed-guide-for-the-security-operations-team-and-threat-hunter-9781091493896","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}