Leveraging Filebeat, Elasticsearch, and Kibana
An effective way to gain insights around infrastructure at scale is by deploying osquery, and then forwarding the logs to Elasticsearch or Splunk to gain central insights. If you have never been exposed to the Elasticsearch Stack, there are a few key components to be aware of:
- Logstash: A utility running on a host to forward logs to an Elasticsearch cluster.
- Beats: Similar to Logstash, Beats help send data to Elasticsearch. Beats are lightweight and target specific use cases, such as Filebeat and Auditbeat.
- Elasticsearch: This is the data storage and search technology in the stack.
- Kibana: Kibana is the data analysis and visualization component that aids in presenting and exploring information.
This section is intended as an introduction for red teamers to learn about the centralized monitoring solutions and infrastructure that blue teams use, and how it can be used by red teams as well. We will look at Filebeat...
