Exercise 6 – Creating a breach detection dashboard in Kibana

Event log collection and correlation systems can bring in a ton of data. Our simple lab setup, for example, is pulling in around 1,000,000 events every 24 hours, and that is for a handful of systems and devices. The way we can deal with this much data is by using it to pinpoint areas of concern, events, or trends that seem suspicious. That is the kind of information we want to visualize so that an analyst can quickly assess if something fishy is going on. At this point, they will use all the other data we have been accumulating to find the smoking gun that proves an incident is occurring or as supporting data to perform forensics and incident response activities. The other way we can use this tremendous amount of detailed information is during threat-hunting exercises, which we will cover in Section 3, Threat Hunting.

Throughout this exercise, we will be adding widgets and visualizations to a custom dashboard within...