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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Introducing Logstash

Logstash is an Elastic product built on Java that can provide multiple pipelines to move data into Elasticsearch via input and output plugins. Logstash uses various inputs to collect data, send it into Elasticsearch, and even enrich it along the way.

Input plugins

Input plugins allow specific datasets to be consumed and processed by Logstash. There are a tremendous number of plugins available for Logstash, and they are available for free and have varying levels of complexity.

Some of the most common plugins are the Syslog plugin, which reads Syslog events over the network, the Kafka plugin, which reads events from a Kafka topic, and the SNMP plugin, which polls network devices using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).

Check out the available input plugins here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/input-plugins.html.