VMware Carbon Black EDR Advanced Administrator

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.

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
• 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

Intended Audience

System administrators and security operations personnel, including analysts and managers

Prerequisites

This course requires completion of the following course:

• VMware Carbon Black EDR Administrator

Product Alignment

• VMware Carbon Black EDR

Course Outline

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