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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While performing hunt operations, you'll likely identify events that will require an IR operation. Beyond the identification of potential intrusion events, threat hunters have an additional context that can assist in the response efforts.

As we discussed in Chapter 1, Introduction to Cyber Threat Intelligence, Analytical Models, and Frameworks, there are several models that we can use to inform response decisions by the IR team members.

Hunt and IR teams frequently work together during a response. It is important to remember to navigate this situation sensitively. While it may appear to the responders or traditional security teams that you've identified a defect in their defense in the network, you should always underscore that you are part of the team. You have helped to identify a potential intrusion against a large network that has many entry and exit points. The intrusion wasn't necessarily accomplished through a lack...