Month: June 2015

ELK stack, what is that?

In a previous post I did a comparison of ELK and Splunk. I will take a few minutes here to kind of explain what ELK is. ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) is simply amazing. Each program making up ELK brings their own uniqueness and are vital parts to making the

Bare Monkey (Volatility)

I’ve been working on Bare Monkey for a few months now. Bare Monkey inputs a Windows memory capture and runs it against all Volatility plugins and outputs them to a text file. Afterwards, it deletes the generated files that are empty and then compresses the files left. It also creates

Splunk vs. ELK Stack

When conversing about log collection and correlation on an Enterprise level, Splunk usually always comes up in the conversation. While I am an avid Splunk fan, outside of the free version, it can be a little expensive. ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) is very comparable to Splunk, in my opinion.