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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.

Lab Info
Table of Contents
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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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Creating Detection Rules with Elastic Stack
To start, you will learn how to create detection rules in Elastic Stack to detect malicious activities.
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Detecting a Live Security Incident
In this challenge you will test that the rule you created can detect a live security incident.
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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.
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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.
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