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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Elastic solutions

Elastic uses the concept of solutions to organize ways that the stack can be used to solve use cases. The three solutions are as follows:

Search: Enterprise Search
Observe: Health and performance logging and metrics
Security: Threat detection and response

We're going to be focused on the Security solution. That said, now that you have Kibana running, you can explore the Enterprise Search and Observability solutions. They are all available and have no cost. The very basic data that we have sent into the stack so far won't populate much, if any, of those solutions; so beyond being able to see the interface, there isn't much else to do.

As the Security solution has access to endpoint data, complete visibility into the collections apparatus and capabilities, and the ability to modify the protective posture of the environment, Elastic has required extensive configuration to ensure that the data is secure. We're going to go over that...