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Asjad Athick
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Asjad Athick

Asjad Athick is a security specialist at Elastic with demonstratable experience in architecting enterprise-scale solutions on the cloud. He believes in empowering people with the right tools to help them achieve their goals. At Elastic, he works with a broad range of customers across Australia and New Zealand to help them understand their environment; this allows them to build robust threat detection, prevention, and response capabilities. He previously worked in the telecommunications space to build a security capability to help analysts identify and contextualize unknown cyber threats. With a background in application development and technology consulting, he has worked with various small businesses and start-up organizations across Australia.
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Technical requirements

This chapter dives into the setup and configuration process for Elastic Agent and Fleet Server for continuously onboarding and managing data sources in Elastic Stack. The following requirements should be considered if you wish to follow along with some of the examples in this chapter, depending on your preference.

If you prefer setting up a standalone Elastic Stack deployment with Fleet Server and Elastic Agent, you will require access to a cloud or virtualization platform to provision at least two virtual machines. The first machine will be used to deploy Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Fleet. The second machine will be used to deploy a web server running Nginx and Elastic Agent to collect data.

Alternatively, you can use Elastic Cloud to provision and orchestrate an Elastic Stack deployment with Fleet enabled. You will still require a virtual machine to deploy the web server and an instance of Elastic Agent to configure data collection.

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Published in: Mar 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800569492

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Asjad Athick

Asjad Athick is a security specialist at Elastic with demonstratable experience in architecting enterprise-scale solutions on the cloud. He believes in empowering people with the right tools to help them achieve their goals. At Elastic, he works with a broad range of customers across Australia and New Zealand to help them understand their environment; this allows them to build robust threat detection, prevention, and response capabilities. He previously worked in the telecommunications space to build a security capability to help analysts identify and contextualize unknown cyber threats. With a background in application development and technology consulting, he has worked with various small businesses and start-up organizations across Australia.
Read more about Asjad Athick