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Threat Hunting with Elastic Stack

By : Andrew Pease
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Book Image

Threat Hunting with Elastic Stack

5 (1)
By: Andrew Pease

Overview of this book

Threat Hunting with Elastic Stack will show you how to make the best use of Elastic Security to provide optimal protection against cyber threats. With this book, security practitioners working with Kibana will be able to put their knowledge to work and detect malicious adversary activity within their contested network. You'll take a hands-on approach to learning the implementation and methodologies that will have you up and running in no time. Starting with the foundational parts of the Elastic Stack, you'll explore analytical models and how they support security response and finally leverage Elastic technology to perform defensive cyber operations. You’ll then cover threat intelligence analytical models, threat hunting concepts and methodologies, and how to leverage them in cyber operations. After you’ve mastered the basics, you’ll apply the knowledge you've gained to build and configure your own Elastic Stack, upload data, and explore that data directly as well as by using the built-in tools in the Kibana app to hunt for nefarious activities. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build an Elastic Stack for self-training or to monitor your own network and/or assets and use Kibana to monitor and hunt for adversaries within your network.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction to Threat Hunting, Analytical Models, and Hunting Methodologies
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Section 2: Leveraging the Elastic Stack for Collection and Analysis
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Section 3: Operationalizing Threat Hunting

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the Elastic Common Schema and the value of using it to describe data in a standard manner. We explored how to interact with ECS-compliant saved objects in Kibana so that we can export, import, and share them. Finally, we discussed how to use the Detection Engine to import and export saved detection logic so that it can be shared with peers and partners.

In this chapter, you have learned skills that will allow you to share the objects that you've created in Kibana, such as visualizations, dashboards, and saved searches, with others. This ability helps defenders observe, and defend against, adversary activity.

As this is the final chapter of this book, you should look back at the skills that you've gained thus far. You have learned how to leverage models to track adversary actions, built an Elastic lab that you can use to detonate and analyze malware, and learned how to share your knowledge with others. It is important to remember that...