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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The detection engine

The Detections section is used to investigate and create detection logic. Detection logic can be the results of a malware hit from a signature or behavior as well as potentially malicious activity. As of Elastic version 7.12, the detection engine has over 500 pre-built rules that are created by the Elastic Intelligence and Analytics Team and the Elastic community:

Figure 8.3 – Detection section

Keeping with the theme across the rest of Kibana, you can apply specific queries directly into the Detections section or apply a date picker selection to narrow any searches.

In this section, we began to explore the detection engine of the Elastic Security app. In the next section, we'll learn about managing the detection rules.

Managing detection rules

One of the most powerful features of the Elastic Security app is the detection rules. Detection rules are pre-configured queries that compare events from various data sources to identify non-signature...