This one-day course teaches you how to use the advanced features of the VMware Carbon Black® EDR™ product. This usage includes gaining access to the Linux server for management and troubleshooting in addition to configuring integrations and using the API. This course provides an in-depth, technical understanding of the Carbon Black EDR product through comprehensive coursework and hands-on scenario-based labs. This class focuses exclusively on advanced technical topics related to the technical back-end configuration and maintenance.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• • Describe the components and capabilities of the Carbon Black EDR server
• • Identify the architecture and data flows for Carbon Black EDR communication
• • Identify the architecture for a cluster configuration and Carbon Black EDR cluster communication
• • Describe the Carbon Black EDR server data types and data locations
• • Use the API to interact with the Carbon Black EDR server without using the UI
• • Create custom threat feeds for use in the Carbon Black EDR server
• • Perform the integration with a syslog server
• • Use different server-side scripts for troubleshooting
• • Troubleshoot sensor-side configurations and communication

System administrators and security operations personnel, including analysts and managers

This course requires completion of the following course:

• • VMware Carbon Black EDR Administrator

1 Course Introduction

• • Introductions and course logistics
• • Course objectives

2 Architecture

• • Data flows and channels
• • Sizing considerations
• • Communication channels and ports

3 Server Datastores

• • SOLR database
• • Storage configurations and data aging
• • Partition states
• • Postgres
• • Modulestore

4 EDR API

• • CBAPI overview
• • Viewing API calls in the browser
• • Utilizing the API to access data

5 Threat Intelligence Feeds

• • Feed structure
• • Report indicator types
• • Custom threat feed creation and addition

6 Syslog Integration

• • SIEM support
• • Configuration

7 Troubleshooting

• • Server-side scripts
• • Server logs
• • Sensor operations