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

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The depreciation life cycle

An important part of defining a pattern of life for data is understanding how to handle transitioning something from "important" to "unimportant" or more specifically, a path to go from being "very important" to "less important."

The process to transition data has a few different names and I've distilled them down into the three most prevalent in order of concept, action, and process:

Indicator decay (concept)
Shunning (action)
Deprecation pipeline (process)

Indicator decay

Decaying indicators is the concept or idea that indicators have a shelf life and must move from "top-priority" alerting to a lower threat or confidence. If every indicator stays at the same level of threat, responders and hunters will eventually be analyzing the entire internet because, while slight hyperbole, almost every atomic indicator will be flagged as a threat at some point.

The idea is that an indicator...