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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Enabling the detection engine and Fleet

Now that we've built and configured security for Elasticsearch and Kibana, let's enable the detection engine and Fleet. The detection engine is how we'll ingest and manage the prebuilt Elastic rules for the Security app and Fleet is how we'll centrally manage collection agents.

Detection engine

The detection engine is where prebuilt detection logic is created and managed for the Security app. Detection logic, as utilized in the Security app, is alerts that are generated by certain different conditions on the endpoints. This is not things such as malware alerts, but more like "a binary is being run from the recycle bin." These rules are hand-created by contributors to the Detection Rules GitHub repository (https://github.com/elastic/detection-rules). We'll spend more time on Detection Rules in the following chapters.

For now, we want to enable the prebuilt rules: