One of the biggest trends in infosec, besides the word cyber, is threat hunting. First, I want to start by defining threat hunting as the action of “investigation without cause” and this concept is nothing new. It’s been around for years but we didn’t have a catchy marketing term associated with it. In this post, I will breakdown the Sqrrl threat hunting model, Powershell Empire for adversary activity, and instructions on setting up Graylog for log aggregation and a search platform to perform threat hunting. Finally, I would like to point out all Ansible playbooks used in this post are publicly accessible on my Github page in a repo called “AgileFalcon“.
Visualize, analyze and search your host IDS alerts. Elastic Stack is the combination of three popular Open Source projects for log management, known as Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana(ELK). Together they provide a real-time and user-friendly console for your OSSEC alerts. OSSEC 
One of the biggest trends in cyber security is threat intelligence. A lot of security professionals and enterprises are asking what is threat intelligence, do I need it, and can it improve my security? First let’s start by defining threat intelligence and the rest of this guide will provide a practical use case for threat intelligence. Threat intelligence is utilizing information to detect security threats that traditional methods and technologies may not and providing decision driven incident response based off data.
Kippo is typically the go to application for information security researchers looking to set up an SSH honeypot. Likewise the Cowire honeypot is forked from the Kippo project. I personally believe that Cowire is better than Kippo and has fixed some common issues within Kippo. Below I go through a simple instillation of Cowire on Ubuntu 14.04. Within the coming posts I will show some of the common ways attackers detect a Cowire/Kippo instance, and its short comings. Please keep in mind that I mean no disrespect to the developers of the Kippo honeypot! They have provided the most used honeypot on the internet today and have truly done a remarkable job.