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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Beats and Agents

Beats are data shippers that you can install directly on an endpoint to send data through Logstash, other data pipelines, and, of course, Elasticsearch.

They are referred to as "lightweight data shippers" and they until recently performed different functions and were all required. So, if you wanted to collect Windows event logs and network traffic from an endpoint, you had to install two different Beats: Winlogbeat and Packetbeat.

Elastic has recently released Elastic Agent, which is a framework to wrap all of these Beats together, add some new functionality, and provide the ability to centrally control the agent configurations with a Kibana app called Fleet.

There are several different Beats that all perform different functions. While there is security value in all of the Beats, we'll cover the main ones for threat hunting.