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Elastic Security UI

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Elastic Security UI

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The Elastic Security app is a highly interactive workspace designed for security analysts that provides a clear overview of events and alerts from your environment. You can use the interactive UI to drill down into areas of interest.

Search

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Filter for alerts, events, processes, and other important security data by entering Kibana Query Language (KQL) queries in the search bar, which appears at the top of each page throughout the app. A date/time filter set to Today is enabled by default, but can be changed to any time range.

To refine your search results, select Add Filter (), then enter the field, operator (such as is not or is between), and value for your filter.
To save the current KQL query and any applied filters, select Saved query menu (), enter a name for the saved query, and select Save saved query.

Page navigation

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The Elastic Security app contains the following pages that enable analysts to view, analyze, and manage security data:

Get started
Overview
Detection & Response
Alerts
Rules
Exception lists
Hosts
Network
Users
Timelines
Cases
Endpoints
Policies
Trusted applications
Event filters
Host isolation exceptions
Blocklist

Pages are grouped into these main sections within the navigation pane:

Dashboards: Visualize detections, investigations, and event trends across your environment.
Detect: View, create, and manage alerts, rules, and rule exceptions.
Explore: Access key metrics about your hosts, network, and users.
Investigate: Access and manage Timelines and cases.
Manage: View and manage hosts that are running Endpoint and Cloud Security.

Click the Collapse side navigation button to collapse and expand the main navigation menu.

Get started page

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The Get started page guides you to integrations that you can use to monitor your hosts and ingest data. Other Elastic Security app pages that show event data (for example, the Hosts and Network pages) display the get started prompt until event data has been ingested.

Overview dashboard

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The Overview dashboard provides a high-level snapshot of detections, external alerts, and event trends. It can help you assess overall system health and find anomalies that may require further investigation. Refer to Overview dashboard for more information.

Detection & Response dashboard

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The Detection & Response dashboard provides focused visibility into the day-to-day operations of your security environment. It helps security operations managers and analysts quickly monitor recent and high priority detection alerts and cases, and identify the hosts and users associated with alerts. Refer to Detection & Response dashboard for more information.

Overview of Detection & Response dashboard

Alerts page

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The Alerts page allows you to view and manage all alerts to monitor activity within your network. Refer to Detections and Alerts for more information.

Rules page

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The Rules page allows you to view and manage all detection rules. Refer to Manage detection rules for more information about prebuilt and custom rules.

Exception lists page

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The Exception lists page allows you to view and manage all rule exceptions. Refer to Rule exceptions and value lists for more information about rule exceptions.

Hosts page

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The Hosts page provides key metrics for host-related security events and a set of interactive data tables. Refer to Hosts page for more information.

Network page

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The Network page provides key network activity metrics via an interactive map and network event tables that enable interaction with Timeline. Refer to Network page overview for more information.

Users page

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The Users page provides a comprehensive overview of user data to help you understand authentication and user behavior within your environment. Refer to Users page for more information.

Timelines page

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Use the Timelines page to investigate alerts and complex threats, such as lateral movement of malware across hosts in your network. Timelines are responsive and allow you to share your findings among other team members. Refer to Investigate events in Timeline for information about getting started with Timelines.

Select the collapsable Timeline button at the bottom of the Elastic Security app to start an investigation.

Cases page

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The Cases page is used to open and track security issues directly in the Elastic Security app. Refer to Cases for more information.

Endpoints page

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The Endpoints page allows you to view and manage hosts running Endpoint and Cloud Security. Refer to Endpoints for more information.

Policies page

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The Policies page lists all of the integration policies configured for Endpoint and Cloud Security. Refer to Policies for more information.

Trusted applications page

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The Trusted applications page allows you to add Windows, macOS, and Linux applications that should be trusted. Refer to Trusted applications for more information.

Event filters page

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The Event filters page allows you to filter endpoint events that you do not need or want stored in Elasticsearch. Refer to Event filters for more information.

Host isolation exceptions page

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The Host isolation exceptions page allows you to specify IP addresses that allow communication with isolated hosts, even when blocked from the rest of your network. Refer to Host isolation exceptions for more information.

Shows the Host isolation exceptions page

Blocklist page

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The Blocklist page allows you to prevent specified applications from running on hosts, extending the list of processes that Endpoint and Cloud Security considers malicious. Refer to Blocklist for more information.

Accessibility features

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Accessibility features, such as keyboard focus and screen reader support, are built into the Elastic Security UI. These features offer additional ways to navigate the UI and interact with the application.

Interact with draggable elements

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Use your keyboard to interact with draggable elements in the Elastic Security UI:

Press the Tab key to apply keyboard focus to an element within a table. Or, use your mouse to click on an element and apply keyboard focus to it.

Press Enter on an element with keyboard focus to display its menu and press Tab to apply focus sequentially to menu options. The f, o, a, t, c hotkeys are automatically enabled during this process and offer an alternative way to interact with menu options.

timeline accessiblity keyboard focus hotkeys

Press the spacebar once to begin dragging an element to a different location and press it a second time to drop it. Use the directional arrows to move the element around the UI.

If an event has an event renderer, press the Shift key and the down directional arrow to apply keyboard focus to the event renderer and Tab or Shift + Tab to navigate between fields. To return to the cells in the current row, press the up directional arrow. To move to the next row, press the down directional arrow.

Navigate the Elastic Security UI

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Use your keyboard to navigate through rows, columns, and menu options in the Elastic Security UI:

Use the directional arrows to move keyboard focus right, left, up, and down in a table.

timeline accessiblity directional arrows

Press the Tab key to navigate through a table cell with multiple elements, such as buttons, field names, and menus. Pressing the Tab key will sequentially apply keyboard focus to each element in the table cell.

Use CTRL + Home to shift keyboard focus to the first cell in a row. Likewise, use CTRL + End to move keyboard focus to the last cell in the row.

timeline accessiblity shifting keyboard focus

Use the Page Up and Page Down keys to scroll through the page.

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