The Very Attacked Person Dashboard Starter Kit

A Step-by-Step Guide to Identifying, Risk-Scoring, and Protecting Your Very Attacked People (VAPs) in Graylog Security

Attackers don’t target org charts. They target access. The marketing director who approves vendor contracts, the HR manager holding sensitive employee data, the facilities coordinator with building access privileges: these Very Attacked People rarely appear on a risk register, yet they’re exactly who targeted spear-phishing and account takeover campaigns go after. With 74% of breaches involving the human element, people-centric threat detection is no longer optional.

This hands-on companion guide picks up where the VAP eBook left off. It walks security teams through building a risk-scored, people-focused VAP dashboard in Graylog Security, using the asset enrichment, risk-based alerting, and automated triage capabilities already built into the platform. No dedicated analyst or expensive add-on required.

What You’ll Learn in This Starter Kit:

• Which five log sources (identity, email security, EDR, vulnerability scan, and user activity data) you need to eliminate blind spots in VAP detection
• How to tag VAPs as an asset category and use Graylog’s asset enrichment to follow each person across every data source
• How Asset-Based and Events & Alerts Risk Scoring elevate a “low” alert the moment it touches a high-value person
• Which dashboard widgets turn a saved search into a live view of your most targeted users
• How the Verascend™ Incident System automates triage, correlates attack campaigns, and tunes out false positives
• A four-step response playbook for when Graylog flags a VAP

Haven’t read part 1 yet? Read “How to Find Your Very Attacked People and Protect Them.”