Cybersecurity Skills & Standards
SOC Level 2
Develop the methodical mindset of an incident investigator.
3 daysIntermediate3 modules
About this course
Develop the methodical mindset of an incident investigator. Over three days you will detect, hunt and respond to threats at scale, investigate adversary tactics mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, build attack timelines and trace incidents back to their entry point.
What you'll learn
- Develop a robust and reliable investigator's mindset to approach incidents methodically
- Learn industry-standard methodologies and tools for detecting, hunting, and responding to cyber threats across enterprise environments
- Gain experience performing incident response and threat hunting at scale
- Learn to investigate and identify advanced adversary tactics following the MITRE ATT&CK framework, including execution artifacts, lateral movement, credential theft, living off the land techniques, persistence, defense evasion, command and control, and many more
- Learn to perform effective attack timeline analysis, and guide effective incident response and remediation efforts
- Investigate the root cause of security incidents by uncovering the entry point
Curriculum
3 modules
- Understanding the modern adversary
- Introduction to incident response
- Incident decision making
- Introduction to threat hunting
- Threat hunting teams, data sources, and maturity models
- Cyber threat intelligence
- Exploring the MITRE ATT&CK Navigator
- Structured and unstructured threat hunting
- Data transformation techniques
- Data transformation in the command-line, PowerShell, and Splunk
- Searching, aggregations, statistics, and visualizations
- Understanding and categorizing anomalies
- Masquerading
- Ambiguous identifiers
- Frequency and volume anomalies
- Temporal anomalies
- Location and environmental anomalies
- Structure and format anomalies
- Absence and suppression anomalies
- Entropy analysis
- Dissecting threat reports
- Threat hunting lab
- Tracing an attack chain
- Hunting execution
- Hunting malicious process trees
- Hunting persistence
- Hunting defense evasion
- Hunting command and control
- Hunting lateral movement
- Collection at scale
- Collection with WMI
- PowerShell 101
- PowerShell remoting
- Remote collection frameworks
- Triage artifact collection with KAPE
- Incident response with Velociraptor
- Windows memory structures
- The Volatility framework
- Process analysis
- Command line analysis
- Network analysis
- Registry analysis
Who it's for
SOC analysts with Level 1 experience moving to investigation and response.
Before you start
- Networking Fundamentals: Practical Help Desk (PHD) or equivalent
- Operating System Fundamentals: Practical Help Desk (PHD) or equivalent
- Security Operations Fundamentals
- Network Traffic Analysis
- Endpoint Security Monitoring
- Log Analysis and Management
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Basic Digital Forensics Exposure
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