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

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 6: Data Collection with Beats and Elastic Agent

In the last chapter, we built the virtual machines (VMs) needed for your hunting lab. In this chapter, we're going to configure all of the infrastructure used to collect all of the data we're going to generate once we start threat hunting.

It is important that the two VMs you built in Chapter 4, Building Your Hunting Lab – Part 1 and Chapter 5, Building Your Hunting Lab – Part 2, are operational and are able to communicate using the connection test at the end of the chapter.

In this chapter, you'll learn how to configure the collection agents and tools you installed in Chapter 4, Building Your Hunting Lab – Part 1 and Chapter 5, Building Your Hunting Lab – Part 2. Additionally, we'll cover the configuration of Fleet that we'll use to manage Elastic Agent.

In this chapter, we'll go through the following topics: