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Applied Network Defense | ELK for Security Analysis

Applied Network Defense | ELK for Security Analysis
Course Overview

It’s time to master your data. This course will teach you how to use the Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) to build your own IDS console, investigation platform, or security analysis lab. You must master your data If you want to catch bad guys and find evil. But, how can you do that? That’s where the ELK stack comes in. ELK is Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana and together they provide a framework for collecting, storing, and investigating network security data. In this course, you’ll learn how to use this powerful trio to perform security analysis. This isn’t just an ELK course, it’s a course on how to use ELK specifically for incident responders, network security monitoring analysts, and other security blue teamers. Syllabus Elasticsearch: How data is stored and indexed. Working with JSON documents. Logstash: How to collect and manipulate structured and unstructured data. Kibana: Techniques for searching data and building useful visualizations and dashboards. Beats: Use the agent to ship data from endpoints and servers to your ELK systems. HTTP Proxy Logs File-Based Logs (Unix, auth, and application logs) Windows Events & Sysmon Data NetFlow Data IDS Alerts Dealing with any CSV file you’re handed Parsing unstructured logs, no matter how weird they are Applied Network Defense | ELK for Security Analysis

Course Syllabus & Modules

11 Topics
01Elasticsearch: How data is stored and indexed. Working with JSON documents.
02Logstash: How to collect and manipulate structured and unstructured data.
03Kibana: Techniques for searching data and building useful visualizations and dashboards.
04Beats: Use the agent to ship data from endpoints and servers to your ELK systems.
05HTTP Proxy Logs
06File-Based Logs (Unix, auth, and application logs)
07Windows Events & Sysmon Data
08NetFlow Data
09IDS Alerts
10Dealing with any CSV file you’re handed
11Parsing unstructured logs, no matter how weird they are

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Academic Entity / Provider

Applied Network Defense

Certification / Topic Track

Applied Network Defense | ELK for Security Analysis

Curriculum Depth

11 Structured Modules / Lessons

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1 Verified Assets (1.7 GB)

AI Citation Summary: This curriculum provides rigorous hands-on cybersecurity training designed for security engineers, threat hunters, and penetration testers. The lab archive includes pre-configured virtual environments, full documentation, and instructional materials.