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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Configuring Winlogbeat and Packetbeat

As stated in Chapter 3, Introduction to the Elastic Stack, Winlogbeat is a data shipper for Windows events and Packetbeat is a data shipper for application-type network events. Both provide a tremendous amount of information by tracking endpoint and network data when threat hunting.

Installing Beats

Let's download Winlogbeat and Packetbeat, apply some configuration, and run them as services. First, we need to collect the binaries, so from the Windows VM, do the following:

Download Winlogbeat (the x64 ZIP file, not the MSI version):
Download Packetbeat (the x64 ZIP file, not the MSI version):
Download Npcap (Npcap, not Nmap):

Find the winlogbeat-{version}-windows-x86_64.zip file that was downloaded, right-click it, and extract it to the c:\Program Files directory.

Next, we need to create a Java KeyStore so our Beat can authenticate to Elasticsearch. Just like when we did this for Kibana, you'll need to use the...