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Detecting Anomalies and Events with Logstash

Logstash is a powerful tool for processing and analyzing log data. In this course, you will learn the setup, configuration, and validation of Logstash in an enterprise environment.

Sean Wilkins  - Pluralsight course - Detecting Anomalies and Events with Logstash
by Sean Wilkins

What you'll learn

Enterprises often struggle with effectively monitoring and detecting anomalies in their network traffic, leaving them vulnerable to potential security breaches. In this course, Detecting Anomalies and Events with Logstash, you'll learn how to utilize Logstash to secure a live enterprise environment. First, you'll discover how to set up Logstash to ingest and process network traffic data. Next, you'll apply custom filtering rules to detect anomalies in DNS, HTTP, and MySQL traffic. Finally, you'll simulate real-world traffic to test Logstash's ability to detect and flag threats. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge to identify, protect, detect, and respond to threats in your network systems.

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Sean Wilkins  - Pluralsight course - Detecting Anomalies and Events with Logstash
Sean Wilkins

Sean Wilkins is an accomplished networking consultant and writer for infoDispersion (www.infodispersion.com) who has been in the IT field for over 20 years working with several large enterprises.

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