VMware Carbon Black Portfolio: Configure and Manage

This 5-day course teaches you how to install, configure, and manage the VMware Carbon Black® Portfolio suite of products, which include:

• VMware Carbon Black® App Control™ Administrator
• VMware Carbon Black® EDR™ Administrator
• VMware Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint™ Standard
• VMware Carbon Black® Cloud Audit and Remediation
• VMware Carbon Black® Cloud Enterprise EDR™

You learn how to use the capabilities of the products according to the organization’s security posture and organizational policies. This course provides an in-depth, technical understanding of the Carbon Black Portfolio through comprehensive coursework, hands-on labs, and scenario-based exercises.

Objectives

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

• Describe the components and capabilities of Carbon Black App Control
• Manage and configure the Carbon Black App Control server based on organizational requirements
• Create policies to control enforcement levels and agent functionality
• Implement rules to support the organization’s security posture
• Use the Carbon Black App Control tools to understand agent and server data
• Describe the components and capabilities of the Carbon Black EDR server
• Identify the architecture and data flows for Carbon Black EDR communication
• Describe the Carbon Black EDR server installation process
• Manage and configure the Carbon Black EDR server based on organizational requirements
• Perform searches across process and binary information
• Implement threat intelligence feeds and create watchlists for automated notifications
• Describe the different response capabilities available from the Carbon Black EDR server
• Use investigations to correlate data between multiple processes
• Describe the components and capabilities of Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard
• Identify the architecture and data flows for VMware Carbon Black Cloud products
• Perform searches across endpoint data to discover suspicious behavior
• Manage the Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard rules based on organizational requirements
• Configure rules to address common threats
• Evaluate the impact of rules on endpoints
• Process and respond to alerts
• Describe the different response capabilities available from VMware Carbon Black Cloud
• Describe the components and capabilities of Carbon Black Cloud Enterprise EDR
• Perform searches across endpoint data to discover suspicious behavior
• Manage watchlists to augment the functionality of Carbon Black Cloud Enterprise EDR
• Create custom watchlists to detect suspicious activity in your environment
• Describe the process for responding to alerts in Carbon Black Cloud Enterprise EDR
• Discover malicious activity within Carbon Black Cloud Enterprise EDR
• Describe the different response capabilities available from VMware Carbon Black Cloud
• Describe the components and capabilities of Carbon Black Cloud Audit and Remediation
• Describe the use case and functionality of recommended queries
• Achieve a basic knowledge of SQL
• Describe the elements of a SQL query
• Evaluate the filtering options for queries
• Perform basic SQL queries on endpoints
• Describe the different response capabilities available from VMware Carbon Black Cloud

Intended Audience

System administrators and security operations personnel (including analysts and managers)

Prerequisites

System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Product Alignment

• VMware Carbon Black App Control
• VMware Carbon Black EDR
• VMware Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard
• VMware Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Advanced
• VMware Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Enterprise
• VMware Carbon Black Cloud Audit and Remediation

Course Outline

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 VMware Carbon Black App Control Administrator

• Login Accounts and Groups
• Policies
• Computer Details
• Custom Rules
• Tools
• Events
• Baseline Drift

3 VMware Carbon Black EDR

• Planning and Architecture
• Server Installation & Administration
• Process Search and Analysis
• Binary Search and Banning Binaries
• Search best practices
• Threat Intelligence
• Watchlists
• Alerts / Investigations / Responses

4 VMware Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard

• Data Flows and Communication
• Searching Data
• Policy Components
• Prevention Capabilities Using Rules
• Processing Alerts
• Response Capabilities

5 VMware Carbon Black Cloud Enterprise EDR

• Managing Watchlists
• Alert Processing
• Threat Hunting in Enterprise EDR
• Response Capabilities

6 VMware Carbon Black Cloud Audit and Remediation

• Query Basics
• Recommended Queries
• SQL Basics
• Filtering Results
• Basic SQL Queries
• Advanced Search Capabilities
• Response Capabilities