Building a Logging Forensics Platform using ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

Posted on by David Vassallo

During a recent project we were required to build a "Logging Forensics Platform", which is in essence a logging platform that can consume data from a variety of sources such as windows event logs, syslog, flat files and databases. The platform would then be used for queries during forensic investigations and to help follow up … Continue reading Building a Logging Forensics Platform using ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

AlienVault: Monitoring individual sensor Events Per Second [EPS]

Posted on by David Vassallo

In a distributed AlienVault environment, it is important to be able to monitor individual sensor's output. In our case, the requirements was to: Monitor each sensor's generated events over a configurable interval If the number of generated events of a sensor goes below a configured threshold, then notify the user via email There are several … Continue reading AlienVault: Monitoring individual sensor Events Per Second [EPS]