Incident Response is a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the methodologies, techniques, and tools for both offensive and defensive security. This course introduces a tactical approach for instrumenting, alerting, and responding for enterprises. Using a combination of new tools, and uncommon techniques students will learn how to defend a network against today’s evolving threats. Real world attacks concentrate heavily on a number of methodologies including; compromising systems without depending upon standard exploits, Personal Security Product (PSP) evasion, unique stealth approaches, persistence mechanisms, and varying degrees of collection strategies. Attendees will learn how real attackers use these strategies and how to detect, alert, respond, and defend against these techniques.
Students will learn:
The following items are the topic areas that will be covered in the class:
Students will get the chance to work with real “APT” tools and see the unique differences between how they are used in real attacks vs the penetration testing tools used today. These differences will help students learn how to truly detect real adversaries. The labs will be interwoven into the lecture so that students will receive a significant amount of time exercising these new skills as they learn. By the end of the class students will have spent 50% of the time in a lab environment. A significant portion of the class will be dedicated to building new tools, on the fly, to solve the challenges posed by a difficult adversary. Questions can be sent to training@attackresearch.com.