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

Chapter 7: Using Kibana to Explore and Visualize Data

So far, we've spent a great deal of time introducing you to the various parts of the Elastic Stack and building infrastructure that will be used to create and collect data for analysis. In this chapter, we'll learn how to navigate inside the Discover app, spend time exploring data using different types of query languages, create visualizations that facilitate the presentation of our data in a hunting context, and finally, arrange those visualizations onto dashboards to help organize our hunting methodologies.

In this chapter, you'll learn how to create queries, saved searches, visualizations, and dashboards throughout the Kibana dashboard. These skills will be built upon as we continue to dig deeper into the Elastic Security solution.

In this chapter, we'll take a look at the following topics: