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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Enriching events with third-party tools

In the previous section, we worked a bit with MITRE's ATT&CK Navigator, a powerful tool that will allow you to shape and prioritize defensive considerations. Next, we're going to look at tools that can be used to enrich technical data observed during a hunt or incident response.

IPinfo

IPinfo is a website that can be used for free to gain insights into IP addresses, such as where they are located geographically, who owns them, and the hostname assigned to the IP.

This information can be collected from their website or using their exposed API endpoint, which is faster and can be done anywhere you have a command prompt.

To start, you can browse to https://ipinfo.io and either create an account or see basic information without registering. While that can be helpful, let's query the API to get information about IP addresses we may identify during a hunt. To do that, open a command prompt and use the cURL program (this is...