Incident Response and Network Forensics Training Boot Camp
Learn how to detect and respond to security incidents! This popular boot camp builds your knowledge around network forensics and incident response with hands-on labs and expert instruction.
Level up your skills
- 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
- Five days live, expert 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
Course objectives
This boot camp focuses on teaching you the five key incident response steps:
- Plan – Preparing the right process, people and technology enables organizations to effectively respond to security incidents
- Identify – Scoping the extent of the incident and determining which networks and systems have been compromised; includes assessing the extent to which systems have been compromised
- Contain – Prevent the incident from further escalating using information gathered in the previous stage
- Eradicate – Remove intruder access to internal and external company resources
- Recover – Restore fully operational system capability and close out incident
Training overview
Infosec’s Incident Response and Network Forensics Boot Camp covers the essential information you need to properly detect, contain and mitigate security incidents. You’ll learn the ins and outs of incident response as well as the tools used by incident responders on a daily basis. You’ll gain hands-on experience in how systems are compromised and what traces are left behind by attackers on the network, on disk and in volatile memory.
Security incidents are a way of life in the modern world, and how organizations respond to them makes a massive difference in how much damage is ultimately done. This boot camp addresses cutting-edge attack vectors as well as tried-and-true methods for compromise. You leave with the knowledge of how to prevent incidents and the skills to defend against a security incident if it does happen.
What you'll learn
- The incident response process
- Building an incident response kit
- Event/incident detection
- Categorizing and prioritizing events
- Sources of network evidence
- TCP reconstruction
- Flow analysis
- NIDS/NIPS
- Vulnerability analysis
- Log analysis
- Firewall log investigation
- Log aggregation
- Network artifact discovery
- Identifying rogue processes
- DNS forensics and artifacts
- NTP forensics and artifacts
- HTTP forensics and artifacts
- HTTPS and SSL analysis
- FTP and SSH forensics
- Email protocol artifacts
- Wireless network forensics
- Defensive review
- Secure credential changing
- Reporting and coordinating incidents
Who should attend
- Incident response professionals
- Network and system administrators
- Computer security incident response team (CSIRT) members
- Anyone interested in improving their network forensics and incident management skills
Prerequisites
One or more years of experience in incident handling or equivalent information security experience is recommended.
Everything you need to level up your skills
- 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
- 5 days live, expert instruction (live online or in-person)
- 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
Training schedule
Infosec’s Incident Response and Network Forensics training is more than just a boot camp. We support you before, during and after your live training to ensure you’re fully prepared to work on incident response and network forensics.
- Before your boot camp
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Start learning now. You’ll get immediate access to all the content in Infosec Skills 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
Plan
- Incident response planning fundamentals
- Building an incident response kit
- Incident response team components
- IR toolkits and appropriate implementation
- Threat Intelligence
- Cyber Kill Chain
- Agent-based IR
Identify
- Indications of an incident
- Triage
- Critical first steps
- Understanding chain of custody
Contain
- Documentation
- Written documentation and supporting media evidence
- Identification methods
- Isolation technical procedure best practices
- Containment
- Quarantine considerations for business continuity
Eradicate
- Eradication testing and the QA role
- Incremental backup compromise detection
- Operating system rebuilds
Recover
- Stakeholder identification in recovery process
- Post incident heightened monitoring tasks
- Special actions for specific incident types
- Incident record keeping
- Lessons learned
Constructing your live incident response toolkit
- Trusted command shells – Windows/Linux
- Remote shells
- PsExec vs PowerShell
Day 2
Event/incident detection- Develop an incident response strategy and plan
- Limit incident effect and repair incident damage
- Perform real-time incident response tasks
- Determine the risk of continuing operations
- Spearphishing and APT attacks
Sources of network evidence
- 3 evidence collection modalities
- Persistence checks
- Sensors
- Evidence acquisition
- Forensically sound collection of images
TCP reconstruction
- TCP session reconstruction
- Payload reconstruction
- Encapsulation methods
- tcpdump/Wireshark
- Working with pcap files
- Wireshark filtering
- Identify missing data
- Identify sources of information and artifacts
- Packet analysis
Flow analysis
- nfcapd and nfdump
- nfsen
- SiLK
- Flow record export protocols
- Network file carving
- Encrypted flow analysis
- Anomalous behavior analysis
- Flow data points
NIDS/NIPS
- Snort
- Snort rule configuration
- Collect incident data and intrusion artifacts
Log analysis
- Syslog server
- Syslog protocol format
- Event investigation
- Microsoft event log
- Event viewer
- Modeling analysis formats
- HTTP server logs
- Apache vs IIS
- Header analysis and attack reconstruction
Firewall log investigation
- Log formats
- iptables and packet flow
Log aggregation
- SIEM tools
- Splunk architecture
Day 3
Triage & analysis- Categorizing events
- Developing standard category definitions
- Perform correlation analysis on event reports
- Event affinity
- Prioritize events
- Determining scope, urgency, and potential impact
- Assign events for further analysis, response, or disposition/closure.
- Determine cause and symptoms of the incident
Network artifact discovery
- Network forensics with Xplico
DNS forensics and artifacts
- DNS tunneling
- Fast flux forensics
NTP forensics and artifacts
- Understanding NTP architecture
- NTP analysis
- NTP usage in timeline analysis and log monitoring
- Protocol inspection
HTTP forensics and artifacts
- Artifact discovery
- Request/response architecture
- HTTP field analysis
- HTTP web services
- AJAX
- Web services
HTTPS and SSL analysis
- Artifact from secure negotiation process
- Other non HTTPS SSL analysis
FTP and SSH forensics
- Capture and inspection
- SFTP considerations
Email protocol artifacts
- SMTP vs POP vs IMAP artifacts
- Adaptations and extensions
- Microsoft Protocols
- Architecture and capture
- Exchange considerations
- SMB considerations
- Cloud email forensics
Wireless network forensics
- Wireless monitoring and capture methodologies
- Understanding Wi-Fi common attacks
- WEP vs WPA vs WPA2
- Wi-Fi security compromise analysis
Perform vulnerability analysis
- Determine the risk, threat level or business impact of a confirmed incident.
Day 4
Timeline analysis- Timeline reconstruction
- Benefits of structured timeline analysis
- Required pre-knowledge
- Pivot point analysis
- Contexting with incomplete data
- Enter information into an operations log or record of daily operational activity.
- Filesystem considerations
- Time rules
- Using Sleuthkit and fls
- Program execution file knowledge
- File opening and file deletion
- log2timeline
- log2timeline input and output modules
- Using l2t_process for filtering
Volatile data sources and collection
- System memory acquisitions from Windows systems
- 64 bit Windows memory considerations
- Page File analysis
- Hibernation file analysis
- Identify rogue processes
- DLL analysis
- Handle discovery and analysis
- Code injection artifacts
- Rootkit indicators
- Correlation with network artifacts
- Volatility walk-through
- Redline analysis
- Volatility basics
- Volatility case study
- Advanced malware hunting with Volatility
- Examine Windows registry in memory
- Investigate windows services
- Cached files in RAM
- Credential recovery in RAM
Day 5
Incident response- Defensive review and recommendations
- Improving defenses
- Secure credential changing process and monitoring
- Increased monitoring period – when and how long
- Validate the system
- Identify relevant stakeholders that need to be contacted
- Communications about an organizational incident
- Appropriate communications protocols and channels
- Coordinate, integrate and lead team responses with other internal groups
- Provide notification service to other constituents
- Enable constituents to protect their assets and/or detect similar incidents.
- Report and coordinate incidents with appropriate external organizations
- Liaison with law enforcement personnel
- Track and document incidents from initial detection through final resolution.
- Assign and label data according to the appropriate class or category of sensitivity
- Collect and retain information on all events/incidents in support of future analytical efforts and situational awareness
- Perform risk assessments on incident management systems and networks
- Run vulnerability scanning tools on incident management systems and networks
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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 continue to build your skills, get a head start on your next certification goal or start earning CPEs.
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