End to End Incident Response Using Elastic Security
Join James Spiteri, PMM Director for Elastic Security, as he walks through an entire incident response scenario using several features of the Elastic Search platform including Security features such as SIEM, Endpoint Security, osquery, correlation and case management. Observability features such as logging and APM are also covered as part of this investigative workflow.
0:00 - Intro
1:17 - Context and Elastic Agent Policy Config
4:20 - Endpoint Security Integration Overview
5:23 - Detection and Response Dashboard and Incident kickoff
6:19 - Cases and Case content
7:32 - Alert investigation + Alert Table Tips
10:06 - Example of Machine Learning based rules
12:04 - Individual Rule details page
13:59 - Session Viewer
15:29 - osquery: saved queries + searching for log4j classes
17:42 - ECS mapping for osquery
18:29 - Visualising osquery results in Lens
21:24 - Pivoting to Observability
22:18 - Investigating Java transactions to look for suspicious activity
25:41 - Case updates and JIRA Synchronisation
28:21 - Using the event renderer
29:44 - Investigating Linux Malware detections
31:25 - Elastic Security Labs
33:20 - Using session viewer to investigate Dirty Pipe
34:34 - Example of custom correlation rules with EQL
37:11 - Endpoint Security Behaviour Prevention rules in Session Viewer
37:59 - Checking for persisted connections with osquery
41:01 - Examining prevented ransomware with behavioural rules
42:49 - Recap and Case update
45:54 - Investigating alerts with Event Analyser
46:49 - Investigating AWS alerts
48:36 - Filtering for events in Timeline
51:14 - Adding timelines to a case
53:28- Getting additional IP details from nslookup
54:52 - Using cross cluster search with EQL
56:49 - Using timeline to search all archived data with searchable snapshots
60:04 - Wrapping up the investigation
If you would like to watch some other introductory videos to Elastic Security first, please visit the following links:
- https://www.elastic.co/virtual-events/intro-to-elastic-security
- https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/archive/2021/global/democratizing-security-arming-every-analyst
Additional References:
- Elastic Cloud Trial: https://ela.st/siem
- - Elastic Detection Rules Repo: https://github.com/elastic/detection-rules
- - Elastic Security Labs: https://www.elastic.co/security-labs/
- - Elastic Discuss Forum: https://discuss.elastic.co/
- - Elastic Community Slack: https://ela.st/slack
- - Open Sandbox to try EQL: https://eqlplayground.io/
- - Elastic Security Documentation: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/current/es-overview.html