What you'll learn

Security teams rely on dashboards built from normalized telemetry, not raw packet captures. In this course, Specialized Security Analysis: Data Visualization, you’ll learn how to transform noisy security logs into investigation-ready visualizations that support triage and repeatable analysis. First, you’ll generate IDS detections and protocol context from controlled lab traffic to create a consistent dataset. Next, you’ll establish a baseline to separate meaningful signal from common noise, applying cleaning and normalization first through CLI validation and then through a repeatable ETL pipeline. Finally, you’ll configure the minimal Elastic Stack components needed for visualization, create Kibana data views for Suricata and Zeek telemetry, and build a dashboard that highlights trends, distributions, geospatial activity, and relationship concentration. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to convert raw security telemetry into structured dashboards that support investigation workflows similar to those used by real security teams.