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 Elastic Security app overview

The Elastic Security app is the central point for Elastic's security solution. It includes a security news feed, host and network data, detections, timelines, cases, and an abstracted view into the administration of the Elastic endpoint configuration.

To get to the Elastic Security app, click on the hamburger menu and select Overview under the Security heading. This landing page will show you the highlights of the events that are in the security app. From here we can jump into specific sections that show their relevant data:

Figure 8.1 – Security app overview

You can scroll through this Overview section to get a high-level look at the different types of data that are reflected in the app. Most notably, at the bottom of the Overview page, there is a breakdown of the different datasets, separated by host and network, that we're sending into the Elastic Stack: