VMware Carbon Black EDR Administrator

This one-day course teaches you how to use the VMware Carbon Black® EDR™ product and leverage the capabilities to configure and maintain the system according to your organization’s security posture and policies. This course provides an in-depth, technical understanding of the Carbon Black EDR product through comprehensive coursework and hands-on scenario-based labs.

Objectives

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
• Describe the Carbon Black EDR server installation process
• Manage and configure the Carbon Black EDR sever 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

Intended Audience

System administrators and security operations personnel, including analysts and managers

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Product Alignment

• VMware Carbon Black EDR

Course Outline

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 Planning and Installation

• Hardware and software requirements
• Architecture
• Data flows
• Server installation review
• Installing sensors

3 Server Administration

• Configuration and settings
• Carbon Black EDR users and groups

4 Process Search and Analysis

• Filtering options
• Creating searches
• Process analysis and events

5 Binary Search and Banning Binaries

• Filtering options
• Creating searches
• Hash banning

6 Search best practices

• Search operators
• Advanced queries

7 Threat Intelligence

• Enabling alliance feeds
• Threat reports details
• Use and functionality

8 Watchlists

• Creating watchlists
• Use and functionality

9 Alerts / Investigations / Response

• Using the HUD
• Alerts workflow
• Using network isolation
• Using live response