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Threat Hunting with Elastic Stack

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

Questions

As we conclude, here is a list of questions for you to test your knowledge regarding this chapter's material. You will find the answers in the Assessments section of the Appendix:

External host alerts can be collected from where?
a. Osquery
b. Zeek
c. Suricata
d. Filebeat
External network alerts can be collected from where?
a. Osquery
b. Zeek
c. Tanium
d. Filebeat
Indicator match rules can be fed from what module?
a. Filebeat System Module
b. Packetbeat
c. Auditbeat
d. Filebeat Threat Intel Module
Which of the following query languages can timelines use for correlations?
a. KQL
b. SQL
c. EQL
d. Lucene
What is the name of the tool that allows you to visually explore alerts?
a. Resolver
b. Hosts
c. Network
d. Timelines

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Authors (1)

Pease

Pease

Andrew Pease began his journey into information security in 2002. He has performed security monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, and intelligence analysis for various organizations from the United States Department of Defense, a biotechnology company, and co-founded a security services company called Perched, which was acquired by Elastic in 2019. Andrew is currently employed with Elastic as a Principal Security Research Engineer where he performs intelligence and analytics research to identify adversary activity on contested networks. He has been using Elastic for network and endpoint-based threat hunting since 2013, He has developed training on security workloads using the Elastic Stack since 2017, and currently works with a team of brilliant engineers that develop detection logic for the Elastic Security App.

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