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

The Visualize app

Now that we've experimented with a few searches and received the resulting text, let's try to visualize it in a way that we can display the data so it can be consumed at a glance to understand the operational security picture as well as to facilitate actual threat hunting.

As before, start up both your Elastic and victim VMs and ensure that the event data is being reported into Elastic. Additionally, we'll be using the three saved searches you created during The Discover app section at the beginning of the chapter. If you don't have these searches saved, please refer to those sections.

All of the visualizations are extremely interactive, and they allow you to hover over them to get introspection into a specific data point or to click and apply filters directly to the visualization.

Click on the hamburger menu and then select the Visualize App.

Important note

As we move through the next two sections on visualizations and dashboards, it...