Threat Hunting with Elastic Stack: Solve complex security challenges with integrated prevention, detection, and response

by Andrew Pease

Overview

Threat Hunting with Elastic Stack will show you how to make the best use of Elastic Security to provide optimal protection against cyber threats. With this book, security practitioners working with Kibana will be able to put their knowledge to work and detect malicious adversary activity within their contested network.

You'll take a hands-on approach to learning the implementation and methodologies that will have you up and running in no time. Starting with the foundational parts of the Elastic Stack, you'll explore analytical models and how they support security response and finally leverage Elastic technology to perform defensive cyber operations.

You’ll then cover threat intelligence analytical models, threat hunting concepts and methodologies, and how to leverage them in cyber operations. After you’ve mastered the basics, you’ll apply the knowledge you've gained to build and configure your own Elastic Stack, upload data, and explore that data directly as well as by using the built-in tools in the Kibana app to hunt for nefarious activities.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to build an Elastic Stack for self-training or to monitor your own network and/or assets and use Kibana to monitor and hunt for adversaries within your network.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781801079808
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	07/23/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	392
File size:	26 MB
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About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Cyber Threat Intelligence, Analytical Models, and Frameworks
2. Hunting Concepts, Methodologies, and Techniques
3. Introduction to the Elastic Stack
4. Building Your Hunting Lab – Part 1
5. Building Your Hunting Lab – Part 2
6. Data Collection with Beats and Elastic Agent
7. Using Kibana to Explore and Visualize Data
8. The Elastic Security App
9. Using Kibana to Pivot Through Data to Find Adversaries
10. Leveraging Hunting to Inform Operations
11. Enriching Data to Make Intelligence
12. Sharing Information and Analysis