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NIST SP 800-53 incident response

 

You would like to achieve an organization-wide perspective on incident awareness and response by correlating incident information and individual incident responses. This will help with compliance to NIST SP 800-53 rev5.

Required data

To optimize the searches shown below, you should specify an index and a time range.

Intrusion detection

Unique sources of external intrusion attempts

To see the locations from where intrusion attempts on your system occur, run the following search.

| tstats count FROM datamodel=Intrusion_Detection.IDS_Attacks WHERE nodename=IDS_Attacks.Network_IDS_Attacks AND (IDS_Attacks.src="*") BY IDS_Attacks.src IDS_Attacks.category IDS_Attacks.action IDS_Attacks.signature 
| stats count BY IDS_Attacks.src 
| iplocation IDS_Attacks.src 
| geostats count BY Country

Count of anomalies detected by IDS signature

To get a count of events calculated to have a high probability of being anomalies, run the following search.

| tstats count FROM datamodel=Intrusion_Detection.IDS_Attacks WHERE nodename=IDS_Attacks.Network_IDS_Attacks AND (IDS_Attacks.signature="*") BY IDS_Attacks.signature
| anomalydetection count 
| stats count

You can also see this information in a table with the count for each signature by using the following search instead.

| tstats count FROM datamodel=Intrusion_Detection.IDS_Attacks WHERE nodename=IDS_Attacks.Network_IDS_Attacks AND (IDS_Attacks.signature="*") BY IDS_Attacks.signature
| anomalydetection count 
| rename IDS_Attacks.signature AS Signature count AS "Event Count"
| table Signature "Event Count"

Attack categories observed

To get a count of the attack categories observed on your systems, run the following search.

| tstats count FROM datamodel=Intrusion_Detection.IDS_Attacks WHERE nodename=IDS_Attacks.Network_IDS_Attacks AND (IDS_Attacks.category="*") BY IDS_Attacks.category 
| chart sum(count) BY IDS_Attacks.category 
| sort -count

Malware detection and protection

Hosts with multiple infections

To get a list of hosts that have more than one malware infection, run the following search. You can change thesum_signatures > 1argument to a value greater than one if needed.

| tstats dc(Malware_Attacks.signature) FROM datamodel=Malware WHERE (Malware_Attacks.signature="*") AND (Malware_Attacks.dest="*") BY Malware_Attacks.dest 
| rename Malware_Attacks.dest AS dest dc(Malware_Attacks.signature) AS sum_signatures 
| eval multi_infections = if(sum_signatures > 1, 1, 0) 
| stats sum(multi_infections) 
| rename sum(multi_infections) AS Endpoints

Trend in malware attacks

To see how many malware attacks hit your system over time, run the following search. You can change thespanto a value other than one second.

| tstats count FROM datamodel=Malware WHERE (Malware_Attacks.signature="*") BY _time Malware_Attacks.signature span=1s 
| timechart sum(count) BY Malware_Attacks.signature useother=0
| fillnull value=0

Trend in malware protection actions

To see how many malware protective actions your system took over time, run the following search. You can change thespanto a value other than one second.

| tstats count FROM datamodel=Malware WHERE (Malware_Attacks.action="*") BY _time Malware_Attacks.action span=1s 
| timechart sum(count) BY Malware_Attacks.action useother=0 usenull=0 
| fillnull value=0

Next steps

After running these access controls and taking appropriate action, you might want to look into other NIST SP 800-53 rev5 controls: