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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

Section 2: Leveraging the Elastic Stack for Collection and Analysis

Here we'll focus on how to use the Elastic Stack to perform threat hunting. This will include an introduction to the components, how to build the stack for training and familiarity, and how to use the stack for threat hunting.

This part of the book comprises the following chapters:

  • Chapter 3, Introduction to the Elastic Stack
  • Chapter 4, Building Your Hunting Lab – Part 1
  • Chapter 5, Building Your Hunting Lab – Part 2
  • Chapter 6, Data Collection with Beats and Elastic Agent
  • Chapter 7, Using Kibana to Explore and Visualize Data
  • Chapter 8, The Elastic Security App