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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
4
Section 2: Leveraging the Elastic Stack for Collection and Analysis
11
Section 3: Operationalizing Threat Hunting

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:

  1. What is the name of the machine that the VMs reside on?

    a. Guest

    b. Host

    c. Virtual machine

    d. Container

  2. What does VirtualBox function as?

    a. A hypervisor

    b. A guest

    c. An operating system

    d. The Elastic Stack

  3. What is the DNF program used for?

    a. Starting services

    b. Configuring network interfaces

    c. Installing software on Linux

    d. Controlling user accounts

  4. Prior to installing VirtualBox Guest Additions, what must you do?

    a. Remove the Linux ISO from VirtualBox.

    b. Reboot the system.

    c. Install a web browser.

    d. Disable the network interface.

  5. Which command updates the Linux system?

    a. sudo dnf upgrade

    b. sudo dnf patch

    c. sudo apt-get patch

    d. sudo dnf update