Network Traffic Intelligence Collection Course

This course demonstrates tools and techniques for extracting useful intelligence from a network traffic capture.

1 hour, 44 minutes

Course description

A common use of network traffic analysis is for performing incident response activities. The purpose of these actions is to extract useful intelligence from network captures that can help to inform the rest of the investigation. This course demonstrates how to extract certain types of useful data from a network capture file.

Syllabus

Intelligence Collection

Video - 00:06:00
This video demonstrates tools and techniques for extracting useful intelligence from a network traffic capture.
Internet Resources Demo (Part 2)

Video - 00:07:00
Demonstration of the use of some web resources for network traffic analysis.
Internet Resources Demo (Part 1)

Video - 00:21:00
Demonstration of the use of some web resources for network traffic analysis.
Web Proxy Demo

Video - 00:17:00
Demonstration of how to use Burp Proxy to intercept and read web traffic.
TLS Decryption Demo

Video - 00:17:00
Demonstration of how to decrypt TLS traffic in Wireshark.
Credential Capture Demo

Video - 00:10:00
Demonstration of how to extract leaked credentials from plaintext protocols.
Content Deobfuscation Demo

Video - 00:15:00
Demonstration of how to identify and deobfuscate some forms of encoded content in traffic captures.
Network Mapping Demo

Video - 00:12:00
Demonstration of the use of Pcap-Viz for creating network maps from traffic captures.

Meet the author

Howard Poston

Howard Poston is a copywriter, author, and course developer with experience in cybersecurity and blockchain security, cryptography, and malware analysis. He has an MS in Cyber Operations, a decade of experience in cybersecurity, and over five years of experience as a freelance consultant providing training and content creation for cyber and blockchain security. He is also the creator of over a dozen cybersecurity courses, has authored two books, and has spoken at numerous cybersecurity conferences. He can be reached by email at howard@howardposton.com or via his website at https://www.howardposton.com.
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