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There are 7 modules in this course
The Cyber Incident Response course will give students an understanding of how incidents are responded to at a high level, as well as allow them to build important technical skills through the hands-on labs and projects.
This course starts with a high-level discussion of what happens at each phase of responding to an incident, followed by a technical deep dive into some of the more exciting parts of memory, network, and host analysis and forensics. This course is for anyone wishing to apply learned forensics and offensive knowledge such as ethical hacking to the incident response process.
The Preparation section of the module goes into some detail with common definitions and severity criteria, with special attention being paid to making sure the student understands that the severity criteria should be based on overall organizational definitions and procedures. The latter part of the module goes into the importance of asset inventory and identification as a basis for establishing severity criteria. All these pieces are required for proper preparation for any incident.
What's included
3 videos1 reading
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3 videos•Total 33 minutes
Incident definitions and severity criteria•11 minutes
Identifying threats and vulnerabilities•14 minutes
Incident Response assets inventory and identification•9 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
Incident Response Stage 1: Preparation•10 minutes
Incident Response: Identification
Module 2•1 hour to complete
Module details
The Identification section deals specifically with how incidents are identified, as well as the classification levels that incidents might fall within. It also reminds the student that these classification levels are established with input from upper management and the rest of the organization. We go into details of notifying the appropriate parties of the incident and how to do that properly. We end this course with a discussion of common tools and techniques.
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4 videos1 reading
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4 videos•Total 38 minutes
Incident identification•11 minutes
Incident Response classification levels•6 minutes
Communication/notification of an incident•11 minutes
This section explores containment and the proper scoping and management of it. We examine the details of how to contain an incident and, more importantly, how to define what containment means. We also explore common containment tools.
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4 videos1 reading
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4 videos•Total 37 minutes
Scoping containment efforts•15 minutes
Determining status of infected/affected computing resources•7 minutes
Containment actions•11 minutes
Containment tools and techniques•5 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
Incident Response Stage 3: Containment•10 minutes
Incident Response: Investigation
Module 4•1 hour to complete
Module details
In the Investigation segment, you’ll learn the questions asked in normal investigations and how to properly answer them. You’ll explore the important data sources these answers are pulled from and the role this process plays in incident response overall.
Dive into what it takes to remove threats from and environment after the threat has been contained. We’ll also take a look at how to verify the threat has been eradicated and address proper notification of eradication to other authorized parties. Lastly, we’ll discuss some common tools for eradication.
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4 videos1 reading
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4 videos•Total 27 minutes
What is eradication?•10 minutes
Cleanup and verification•5 minutes
Notification•7 minutes
Eradication tools and techniques•4 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
Incident Response Stage 5: Eradication•10 minutes
Incident Response: Recovery
Module 6•29 minutes to complete
Module details
This Recovery segment shows how we tie directly into business continuity and disaster recovery at this phase. We deal with how to restore systems in the least disruptive and most efficient way, as well as defining what constitutes "recovered."
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4 videos1 reading
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4 videos•Total 19 minutes
Returning to normal business processes•4 minutes
Service and System restoration•4 minutes
Certification and validation of Business Continuity•5 minutes
Recovery and restoration tools and techniques•6 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
Incident Response Stage 6: Recovery•10 minutes
Follow Up/Lessons Learned
Module 7•1 hour to complete
Module details
Look at validation and sign-off of recovery. The module looks at how to effectively assess how well the team responded. It also looks at implementing needed improvements and how to ingest feedback from the rest of the organization or even outside organizations.
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3 videos1 reading1 assignment
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3 videos•Total 13 minutes
Assessing the team and processes' effectiveness•5 minutes
Implementing improvements•3 minutes
Feedback from other teams in the organization•4 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
Incident Response: Lessons Learned•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Understanding Incident Response stages•30 minutes
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