To round out your skills as a cybersecurity practitioner, you'll analyze incidents and indicators of compromise (IOCs) using Windows- and Linux-based tools. Then, you'll deploy an incident handling and response architecture, mitigate incidents, and hand over incident information to forensic personnel. Lastly, you'll investigate cybersecurity incidents by applying a forensic investigation plan, securely collecting and analyzing electronic evidence, and following up on the results of an investigation.
CFR: Incident Analysis, Response, and Forensics
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CFR: Incident Analysis, Response, and Forensics
This course is part of CyberSec First Responder (Exam CFR-410) Specialization
Instructor: Bill Rosenthal
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What you'll learn
You will perform active asset and network analysis to detect incidents, respond to incidents, and investigate incidents using forensic analysis.
Skills you'll gain
- Criminal Investigation and Forensics
- Linux Commands
- Incident Response
- Bash (Scripting Language)
- Incident Management
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Mitigation
- Network Analysis
- Digital Forensics
- Computer Security Incident Management
- Analysis
- Cybersecurity
- Continuous Monitoring
- Information Systems Security
- Cyber Threat Hunting
- Windows PowerShell
- Computer Security
- Network Security
- Intrusion Detection and Prevention
- Cyber Attacks
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Assessments
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Taught in English
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This course is part of the CyberSec First Responder (Exam CFR-410) Specialization
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The analysis you perform on log data is important, but it tends to remain static. Most of the intelligence you'll be gathering and analyzing from logs will be actionable only after the event is either underway or already finished. So, to complement this static analysis, you need something a bit more dynamic. That's why, in this lesson, you'll take a more active approach to analyzing your organizational assets.
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Now that you've performed a comprehensive analysis of your network and other assets, you need to prepare for what much of this analysis will reveal—the reality of a security incident affecting your organization. Responding quickly, yet cautiously, to the inevitable can make all the difference in preventing serious, long-term harm to the organization.
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Following a cybersecurity incident, you may be called on to perform forensic analysis, such as collecting evidence and determining how and why the incident occurred, and who caused it.
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You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.
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