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

Configuring Elastic Agent

For this section, we'll be spending time in the Fleet app in Kibana. As mentioned in Chapter 3, Introduction to the Elastic Stack, Fleet is a central management framework for Elastic Agent. Elastic Agent will manage integrations into the endpoint to collect targeted data, most specifically, security data.

A big benefit of Fleet is that as additional integrations are released by Elastic or the community, you can use Fleet to roll out these new features or make adjustments to existing ones.

To get to Fleet, click on the hamburger menu and then scroll down to Fleet:

Figure 6.6 – Accessing Fleet

Once we've clicked on the Fleet menu option, we'll be dropped onto the Fleet Overview landing page:

Figure 6.7 – Fleet Overview page

Click on Policies and then the blue Create agent policy button on the right. Name this policy Windows (or something similar) – you can also give it a description, although...