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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Indicators

Indicators can be interesting when they are observed locally or provided by a high-confidence threat information source. IoCs, to be interesting, generally need to be emerging. IoAs have a bit more staying power.

Interesting indicators are also indicators that are contextual and enriched. Simply an atomic indicator by itself is almost next to useless. When it became malicious, in what way was it malicious, how has it been observed being used, and so on, is all contextually relevant information that makes an indicator "interesting."

Commonly, organizations can lose interest in an indicator when they have a countermeasure in place. While that certainly helps mitigate the threat, the indicator is still interesting in that someone attempted to use a known-bad indicator to compromise your environment.

An indicator can quickly become less interesting once it begins to become stale or decay (more on that in the next section). Additionally, indicators that are lacking...