This one-day course teaches you how to use the VMware Carbon Black® EDR™ product during incident response. Using the SANS PICERL framework, you will configure the server and perform an investigation on a possible incident. This course provides guidance on using Carbon Black EDR capabilities throughout an incident with an in-depth, hands-on, scenario-based lab.

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

• • Utilize Carbon Black EDR throughout an incident
• • Implement a baseline configuration for Carbon Black EDR
• • Determine if an alert is a true or false positive
• • Fully scope out an attack from moment of compromise
• • Describe Carbon Black EDR capabilities available to respond to an incident
• • Create addition detection controls to increase security

Security operations personnel, including analysts and incident responders

This course requires completion of the following course:

• • VMware Carbon Black EDR Administrator

1 Course Introduction

• • Introductions and course logistics
• • Course objectives

2 VMware Carbon Black EDR & Incident Response

• • Framework identification and process

3 Preparation

• • Implement the Carbon Black EDR instance according to organizational requirements

4 Identification

• • Use initial detection mechanisms
• • Process alerts
• • Proactive threat hunting
• • Incident determination

5 Containment

• • Incident scoping
• • Artifact collection
• • Investigation

6 Eradication

• • Hash banning
• • Removing artifacts
• • Continuous monitoring

7 Recovery

• • Rebuilding endpoints
• • Getting to a more secure state

8 Lessons Learned

• • Tuning Carbon Black EDR
• • Incident close out