- Lab
- Security
Data Visualization with the Kibana Dashboard
In this lab, you will build and analyze Kibana dashboards to monitor web activity and detect security threats. Using built-in web sample data, you will create visualizations to understand traffic patterns and user behavior. Additionally, you will analyze the UWF-TestZeekData24 dataset to detect Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) related to Credential Access, Exfiltration, and Reconnaissance. You will build a Credential Access Monitoring Dashboard to visualize attack trends, identify high-frequency attacker IPs, and track suspicious authentication attempts. By the end of this lab, you will be able to design effective security dashboards, query logs for suspicious activity, and enhance security monitoring and incident response.
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Challenge
Getting Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Challenge
Building a Basic Kibana Dashboard
In this first challenge, you will explore Kibana's built-in Sample Web Logs dataset to create a foundational dashboard. This dataset simulates Apache-style web logs, providing insights into website traffic and user behavior. You will build visualizations to monitor web traffic patterns, user geolocation, and response codes. By customizing the dashboard, you will gain hands-on experience in designing effective data visualizations, essential for real-time monitoring and analysis of web activity.
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Visualizing Security Logs for Threat Detection
In this challenge, you will perform a detailed security log analysis using the UWF-TestZeekData24 dataset. This dataset includes logs categorized by MITRE ATT&CK tactics such as Credential Access, Exfiltration, and Reconnaissance. You will analyze these logs to identify Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and detect suspicious activity patterns. Using Kibana, you will create visualizations to highlight potential threats and combine them into a comprehensive security monitoring dashboard. This challenge provides hands-on experience in threat hunting and security monitoring using Kibana.
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The Last Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
What's a lab?
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