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

Hosts

The Hosts section of the Security solution allows you to get a high-level view of the endpoints that are reporting into your stack. This can be helpful to get ecosystem-wide metrics about your environment, such as the number of hosts, operating systems, authentication statistics, and so on.

Our lab environment will likely be sparsely populated with data because we only have one host (our victim machine). Looking at a larger analysis environment, we can see how this view can provide an overview of your hosts:

Figure 8.47 – Hosts overview

When we built our lab in Chapter 4, Building Your Hunting Lab – Part 1, we configured our victim to use the Elastic Agent, Packetbeat, and Winlogbeat. We can see those data sources reflected in the Hosts section. If you want to remove specific data sources, you can do that in DATA SOURCES SELECTION: