You're reading from Threat Hunting with Elastic Stack Solve complex security challenges with integrated prevention, detection, and response

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801073783

Length 392 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kibana

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Andrew Pease

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to Threat Hunting, Analytical Models, and Hunting Methodologies

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Cyber Threat Intelligence, Analytical Models, and Frameworks FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Hunting Concepts, Methodologies, and Techniques

4. Section 2: Leveraging the Elastic Stack for Collection and Analysis

5. Chapter 3: Introduction to the Elastic Stack

6. Chapter 4: Building Your Hunting Lab – Part 1

7. Chapter 5: Building Your Hunting Lab – Part 2

8. Chapter 6: Data Collection with Beats and Elastic Agent

9. Chapter 7: Using Kibana to Explore and Visualize Data

10. Chapter 8: The Elastic Security App

11. Section 3: Operationalizing Threat Hunting

12. Chapter 9: Using Kibana to Pivot Through Data to Find Adversaries

13. Chapter 10: Leveraging Hunting to Inform Operations

14. Chapter 11: Enriching Data to Make Intelligence

15. Chapter 12: Sharing Information and Analysis

16. Assessments

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The Pyramid of Pain

The Pyramid of Pain (PoP) was released in 2013 by a skilled security researcher by the name of David Bianco (The Pyramid of Pain, http://detect-respond.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-pyramid-of-pain.html). This model is more of a roadmap for accomplishing "the D's" we covered previously:

Figure 2.1 – The Pyramid of Pain

This model highlights the difficulties that adversaries have when different elements of their campaign are discovered and, importantly, shared. Threat hunting can uncover all of these tiers and, through the application of "the D's," we can harass, frustrate, and stress the adversary, which can cause them to move onto easier targets or make mistakes that, as hunters and defenders, we can capitalize on to evict them from the contested network.

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