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Custom Detection Rules and Automating Alerts in Elastic Stack

In this lab, you’ll practice creating automated detection and alerting rules in Elastic Stack. When you’re finished, you’ll have the ability to deploy automated detection and alerting functionality using Elastic Stack.

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Aug 05, 2025
Duration
1h 20m

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Table of Contents
  1. 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!

  2. Challenge

    Creating Detection Rules with Elastic Stack

    To start, you will learn how to create detection rules in Elastic Stack to detect malicious activities.

  3. Challenge

    Detecting a Live Security Incident

    In this challenge you will test that the rule you created can detect a live security incident.

  4. Challenge

    Configure Automated Alerting

    To finish up, you will go over how to create automated alerting and notifications that can notify stakeholders when an attack is detected.

  5. Challenge

    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.

About the author

Shimon Brathwaite is a seven-year cybersecurity professional with extensive experience in Incident Response, Vulnerability Management, Identity and Access Management and Consulting.

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