• Online, Self-Paced

This course is designed for analysts involved in incident response and countermeasures implementation. It aims to help the student better understand Snort/Sourcefire rules, how to use them, and how to write them. Students also practice analyzing a malware report and implementing the technical information in Sourcefire rules.

Learning Objectives

Understand how to write regular expressions, create signatures, identify poorly written signatures, as well as identify information in PCAP data and malware analysis to use for creating alerts

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):

Specialty Areas

  • Cyber Defense Analysis
  • Exploitation Analysis
  • Incident Response

Specialty Areas have been removed from the NICE Framework. With the recent release of the new NICE Framework data, updates to courses are underway. Until this course can be updated, this historical information is provided to give better context as to how it can help you with your cybersecurity goals.