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Practical Threat Hunting

This course includes practical labs that challenge the students to develop hypothesis and hunt missions in order to hunt for evidence of compromise through multiple scenarios including social engineering, network and system compromise, and APT nation-state actors. The labs are designed so that students have an opportunity to experience hunting using environments like the command line, Jupyter Notebook, and forensic tools like Velociraptor.

Course Overview

Overall Proficiency Level
3 - Advanced
Course Catalog Number
3006
Course Prerequisites

Students should possess knowledge of computer and operating system fundamentals. Python programming is not required; however, familiarity with the language or programming concepts will help students when working on some of the labs.

Training Purpose
Skill Development
Specific Audience
All
Delivery Method
Online, Instructor-Led
  • Online, Instructor-Led

Learning Objectives

After this course students will be able to: • Apply cyber threat intelligence concepts to hunt for adversary activity in your environment • Establish a repeatable hunt methodology and develop hunt use cases • Leverage end point data to hunt • Establish measures of effectiveness for hunt program

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

  • 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.

Feedback

If you would like to provide feedback on this course, please e-mail the NICCS team at NICCS@mail.cisa.dhs.gov. Please keep in mind that NICCS does not own this course or accept payment for course entry. If you have questions related to the details of this course, such as cost, prerequisites, how to register, etc., please contact the course training provider directly. You can find course training provider contact information by following the link that says “Visit course page for more information...” on this page.

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