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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Building an Elastic machine

In this section, we'll be building Elasticsearch and preparing it to index events from our victim machines.

We'll build Elasticsearch on CentOS. Elasticsearch can be built on Windows or macOS. However, for the lab, we're going to have everything running inside a VM.

Creating the Elastic VM

First, we need to install CentOS. Browse to the CentOS mirrors list (http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/8/isos/x86_64/), select the mirror that is closest to you, and then select either the Boot or DVD ISO file. CentOS will offer you a list of mirrors that should provide the fastest download. Note that the DVD file is much larger than the Boot ISO. You can select whichever you want – the configuration steps will be the same. However, the Boot ISO requires an internet connection during configuration, while the DVD ISO does not.

Building the CentOS box follows the same steps that we used for Windows with the exception of less hard disk space...