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 Dashboard app

Dashboards are a great way in which to display multiple visualizations at once. Dashboards in Kibana, like almost everything else, are interactable. This means that you can hover over them and apply filters. Additionally, we can use the visualizations we created earlier to associate the data together. For example, using dashboards and filters, we can filter out a specific domain and view the HTTP, TLS, and DNS data all at once.

To get started, click on the hamburger menu and select Dashboards. From there, you'll see several dashboards that are included with the various Beats that we're using. For example, the Packetbeat Overview ECS dashboard is a fantastic example of what you can do with visualizations and dashboards.

That said, let's create three dashboards, one each for HTTP, TLS, and DNS traffic. Click on Create dashboard, and then click on the Add from Library button. Here are all the saved searches and visualizations. Change the type to Visualizations...