The ELK stack combines Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana to collect, process, search, analyze, and visualize cybersecurity data. It turns logs, vulnerability reports, incident histories, and threat-intelligence feeds into dashboards that support risk and threat analysis. section 10.2.5 section 9.5
A security team can use the stack to:
- Ingest historical incident data, vulnerability reports, and threat-intelligence feeds. section 10.2.5
- Query Elasticsearch to find patterns in incidents, threats, and log data. section 10.2.5 section 9.5
- Build Kibana dashboards showing risk scores, threat likelihood, and critical vulnerabilities. section 10.2.5
- Support incident triage by correlating logs and visualizing evidence alongside indicators of compromise. section 9.5
From vulnerability data to a risk dashboard
A security team can feed vulnerability reports and historical attack data into the stack, query Elasticsearch for recurring patterns, and use Kibana to display risk scores and threat likelihood. Analysts can then use those views to prioritize vulnerability management and investigate related incidents. section 10.2.5 section 9.5
