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Threat Hunting with Elastic Stack

You're reading from   Threat Hunting with Elastic Stack Solve complex security challenges with integrated prevention, detection, and response

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Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801073783
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Pease began his journey into information security in 2002. He has performed security monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, and intelligence analysis for various organizations from the United States Department of Defense, a biotechnology company, and co-founded a security services company called Perched, which was acquired by Elastic in 2019. Andrew is currently employed with Elastic as a Principal Security Research Engineer where he performs intelligence and analytics research to identify adversary activity on contested networks.nHe has been using Elastic for network and endpoint-based threat hunting since 2013, He has developed training on security workloads using the Elastic Stack since 2017, and currently works with a team of brilliant engineers that develop detection logic for the Elastic Security App.
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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 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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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. Winlogbeat is used to collect what kind of data?

    a. Windows event data

    b. Windows performance metrics

    c. Metrics about Beats installed on Windows systems

    d. Windows network information

  2. Packetbeat is used to collect what kind of data?

    a. Packet captures

    b. Network traffic between Kibana and Elasticsearch

    c. Application-type network events

    d. Network performance metrics

  3. What is the central management app for Elastic Agent?

    a. Fleet

    b. Beats Central Manager

    c. Group Policy

    d. System Center Configuration Manager

  4. What are additions to Fleet policies called?

    a. Modules

    b. Plugins

    c. Inputs

    d. Integrations

  5. Which of the following Beats reports Sysmon events as a module?

    a. Elastic Agent

    b. Winlogbeat

    c. Packetbeat

    d. Auditbeat

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Andrew Pease began his journey into information security in 2002. He has performed security monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, and intelligence analysis for various organizations from the United States Department of Defense, a biotechnology company, and co-founded a security services company called Perched, which was acquired by Elastic in 2019. Andrew is currently employed with Elastic as a Principal Security Research Engineer where he performs intelligence and analytics research to identify adversary activity on contested networks. He has been using Elastic for network and endpoint-based threat hunting since 2013, He has developed training on security workloads using the Elastic Stack since 2017, and currently works with a team of brilliant engineers that develop detection logic for the Elastic Security App.
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