Nick Burdette - ELK a free way to make your logs work for you — SecureWV

Does your logs look like this?

Every environment has logs, but are you using them to their full potential? In this talk I will show you a free software stack called ELK (Elasticsearch Logstash and Kibana) that will store your logs, transform your logs so fields are universal, and give you a nice and neat dashboard that is so easy to read your users will be able to understand.

We will start on how elasticsearch operates, the pros and cons I have encountered, then move to a few examples of what I have done in my environment to make life in IT much easier. Then we will go over how we can use the ELK stack to monitor your network for attacks.