When threat actors target an organization, it can be either targeted or opportunistic in nature. What is clear is that the endpoint is often a primary target. Attackers will use a range of attack techniques from phishing, malware or even social engineering to name a few to achieve their aims. In this course, Analyze Endpoint Data with Elasticsearch, you will use the software Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch provides powerful search capabilities that can be used to give cyber defenders the ability to analyze data, detect threats and help to investigate security incidents. First, you will be given an overview into Elasticsearch software. Next, you will discover how to analyze Cloud Applications, Windows, and Linux endpoints. Then you will learn about operating system baseline, anomaly and file integrity monitoring. Finally, you will learn to analyze data for malicious logon and process activity. When you are finished with this course you will have the skills and knowledge to better protect your organization, its data and intellectual property. This is an intermediate level course and you should have good knowledge of common cyber attack techniques as well as some incident response knowledge.
Author Name: Tim Coakley
Author Description:
Tim Coakley is a Senior Security Solutions Architect for a large multi-national organisation and an author at Pluralsight. Tim started a long and successful full-time career in Digital Forensics supporting the criminal justice system and law enforcement on a long list of criminal cases. Parallel to this Tim ran a research and development business creating solutions from design through to support resulting in some unique and niche software not developed anywhere else. Tim now works fully within t… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  2mins
• Baseline and Anomaly Detection
  13mins
• Cloud Application Analysis with Elasticsearch
  13mins
• Malicious Process Monitoring
  12mins
• File Integrity Monitoring
  9mins
• Malicious Logon Monitoring
  10mins
• Windows Host Analysis
  13mins
• Linux Host Analysis
  12mins
• Summary
  4mins