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

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

I agree, there was a lot covered in these last two chapters. There are a lot of moving pieces to get a working lab, between the victim machine and the collection and analysis platform. I thought about doing some "figurative hand waving" with a lot of what I have seen in these kinds of kits: "Step 1: Install Elasticsearch; Step 2: Install Windows; Step 3: Profit." I observe those kinds of guides frequently and find that that approach misses a lot of crucial details; so, we went from the ground up, through every step. While that may seem slow for some that are experienced, it's important to get this right or the rest of the book isn't going to be a lot of fun if all you can do is read about how this could work. Hands-on for the win!

In the next chapter, we will configure the systems that will collect our data from the victim machine and store it in Elasticsearch.