National CAE Designated Institution
  • Online, Instructor-Led
Course Description

Course Desc: A hands-on evaluation of the tools and processes used to defend a cloud-based or traditional network against evolving and persistent threats. The objective is to examine network traffic and logs to correlate events while supporting threat hunting and defense against network attacks. Topics include secure network architecture, network protocols, packet analysis, network intrusion detection and prevention, log analysis, network scanning tools, attack vectors, threat hunting, and network forensics.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:
Analyze artifacts associated with network intrusions.
Identify components of a secure network architecture.
Analyze network traffic and previously captured data using network data acquisition tools to identify intrusion techniques.
Evaluate a network intrusion detection and prevention system.
Examine network intrusion alerts to mitigate threats and vulnerabilities.
Evaluate analysis tools and techniques to conduct threat hunting.
Create a threat intelligence report based on findings from a network intrusion.

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):