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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Installing and configuring Kibana

Now that we've deployed Elasticsearch, we need to build Kibana. A deployment of Kibana is pretty simple, and connecting it to Elasticsearch using basic authentication isn't terribly difficult either.

Installing Kibana

As we've already installed the Elastic repository, we can simply use that to install Kibana using yum or DNF and enable it to start on boot:

$ sudo dnf install kibana

$ sudo systemctl enable kibana

Now that we've installed and configured Kibana to start on boot, we can continue to connect Kibana to Elasticsearch.

Connecting Kibana to Elasticsearch

Kibana (and Beats for that matter) uses a Java KeyStore to manage and secure credentials. We're going to add elasticsearch.username and elasticsearch.password to the KeyStore.

This is the username and password used by Kibana to authenticate to Elasticsearch. We set these when we configured all of the credentials during the Elasticsearch setup. elasticsearch...