Cyber Threat Hunting Training Boot Camp
Learn how to find, assess and remove threats from your organization in our Cyber Threat Hunting Boot Camp designed to prepare you for the Certified Cyber Threat Hunting Professional exam.
Earn your CCTHP, guaranteed!
- Exam Pass Guarantee (live online)
- 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
- Certified Cyber Threat Hunting Professional (CCTHP) exam voucher
- Unlimited CCTHP practice exam attempts
- Three days live, expert CCTHP instruction (live online or in-person)
- Immediate access to Infosec Skills — including a bonus boot camp prep course — from the minute you enroll to 90 days after your boot camp
- Learn by doing with 100s of additional hands-on courses and labs
- 90-day access to all boot camp video replays and materials
- Knowledge Transfer Guarantee
Hands-on labs
Hunt cyber threats with our practical exercises that present realistic attack scenarios. Practice threat hunting on our virtualized environment that simulates a full range of servers and services used in a real company. Learn how to hunt down various network- and host-based threats, gather and analyze logs and event data, capture memory dump and search for malware activity. The after-class CTF (Capture The Flag) exercises allow you to put everything you’ve learned together by hunting cyber threats on your own.
Certification details
The Certified Cyber Threat Hunting Professional (CCTHP) certification is designed to certify that candidates have expert-level knowledge and skills in cyber threat identification and threat hunting.
The CCTHP body of knowledge consists of five domains covering the responsibilities of a cyber threat hunter. The certification exam is a 50-question, traditional multiple-choice test. Questions are randomly pulled from a master list and must be completed in two hours. The five CCTHP domains are:
- Cyber threat hunting definition and goals
- Cyber threat hunting methodologies and techniques
- Hunting for network-based cyber threats
- Hunting for host-based cyber threats
- Cyber threat hunting technologies and tools
Training overview
The Internet is the new digital frontier, and like any frontier, it has a hundred things waiting to attack you. But sitting quietly and waiting to be jumped isn’t the style of a real professional. Sharpen your skills and learn to hunt the threat on its own turf with Infosec’s Cyber Threat Hunting Boot Camp.
This immersive three-day course will teach you about the latest tactics and tools used in the fight against hackers and cyber-attackers. Taught by industry professionals who have served as penetration testers, incident responders and computer forensic investigators, the Cyber Threat Hunting Boot Camp covers security analysis, establishing a secure threat-hunting setup, successful hunt patterns and liaising with security operations center personnel to cover all angles of attack while the threat is ongoing.
What you'll learn
After attending the Cyber Threat Hunting Boot Camp, you will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Think tactically regarding cyber threat defense
- Use threat intelligence to form your own hypotheses and begin the hunt
- Anticipate and hunt down threats in your organization’s systems
- Inspect network information to identify dangerous traffic
- Understand the Hunting Maturity Model to measure your organization’s hunting capability
- Learn how to find and investigate malware, phishing, lateral movement, data exfiltration and other common threats
Who should attend
Understanding the process of threat hunting is useful to any number of different jobs and teams. Our Cyber Threat Hunting Boot Camp would be perfect for anyone who wants to know more about threat hunting and the current threat landscape, such as:
- Penetration testers
- Red team members and other white hats
- Incident-response team members
- Security analysts
- Engineers specializing in network security or IT
- Security consultants and auditors
- Managers wanting to create threat-hunting teams within their own companies
Prerequisites
- Understanding of fundamental information security concepts
- Working knowledge of networking devices and protocols
- Exposure to pentesting and network monitoring tools and methodologies
- Basic knowledge of Linux and Windows command line
Everything you need to earn your CCTHP
- Exam Pass Guarantee (live online)
- 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
- Certified Cyber Threat Hunting Professional (CCTHP) exam voucher
- 3 days live, expert CCTHP instruction (live online or in-person)
- CCTHP boot camp prep course
- Learn by doing with 100s of additional hands-on courses and labs
- 90-day access to all boot camp video replays and materials
- Knowledge Transfer Guarantee
Exam Pass Guarantee
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CCTHP training schedule
Infosec’s CCTHP training is more than just a boot camp. We support you before, during and after your live training to ensure you’re fully prepared for your exam — and get certified on your first attempt.
- Before your boot camp
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Start learning now. You’ll get immediate access to all the content in Infosec Skills, including an in-depth CCTHP prep course, the moment you enroll. Prepare for your live boot camp, uncover your knowledge gaps and maximize your training experience.
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- During your boot camp
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Day 1
Introduction to cyber threat hunting
- What is threat hunting?
- Assumption of breach
- The concept of active defense
- Role of threat hunting in organizational security program
- Threat hunting benefits
Threat hunting process
- Preparing for the hunt: the hunter, the data, the tools
- Creating a context-based hypothesis
- Starting the hunt (confirming the hypothesis)
- Responding to the attack
- Lessons learned
Threat hunting methodologies
- The Crown Jewel Analysis (CJA)
- Cyber threat patterns and signatures
- Utilizing threat intelligence
- Threat hunting hypotheses: intelligence-driven, awareness-driven, analytics-driven
Day 2
Threat hunting techniques
- Searching
- Cluster analysis
- Grouping
- Stack counting
Preparing for the hunt
- What data do you need and how to get it?
- Host and network visibility
- Data gathering and analysis tools
- Commercial and open-source threat hunting solutions
The hunt is on
- What threats can be hunted?
- Introduction to IOCs and artifacts
- IOCs and IOAs
- Cyber kill chain
Day 2 (cont.)
Hunting for network-based threats
- Network hunting overview (networking concepts, devices and communications, hunting tools)
- Hunting for suspicious DNS requests and geographic abnormalities
- Hunting for DDoS Activity
- Hunting for suspicious domains, URLs and HTML responses
- Hunting for irregular traffic: misused protocols,
port-application mismatches, web shells and other threats
Hunting for host-based threats
- Endpoint hunting overview (Windows and Linux processes, file systems, registry, hunting tools)
- Malware (types, common activities, AV evasion, detection and analysis tools and methods)
- Hunting for irregularities in processes
- Hunting for registry and system file changes
- Hunting for filenames and hashes
- Hunting for abnormal account activity (brute-force attacks, privileged accounts)
- Hunting for swells in database read volume
- Hunting for unexpected patching of systems
Day 3
Utilizing system and security event data
- Event logs and IDs
- Logging on Windows and Linux
- SIEM
- Using event data during hunts
Advanced threat hunting concepts
- OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) loop
- Going beyond IOCs: hunting for advanced threats
- Chokepoint monitoring
- Deceptive technologies
- Developing an effective threat-hunting program
- Building customized threat-hunting tools
- Threat hunting best practices and resources
CCTHP exam
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- After your boot camp
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Your Infosec Skills access extends 90 days past your boot camp, so you can take additional time to prepare for your exam, get a head start on your next certification goal or start earning CPEs.
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