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

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Introducing threat hunting

As the computing age was blossoming, we started creating more data and that data became ever more valuable than the data before it. As data became more valuable, there were others who were not meant to have access to data who wanted it. This created the first information security teams – groups that identify unauthorized access to systems, chase down aggressors, and evict them from the contested network. Threat hunting was "a thing" before it had a name.

The problem with this early approach to information security/security operations was that it was very reactionary and as our data continued its climb in value, adversaries became more incentivized to pilfer this data. We, as defenders, needed to get in front of the compromises and identify the threats and capabilities of adversaries and adapt our security countermeasures to proactively defend our environment. In the event a compromise occurred, we needed to understand the extent of the...