VMware Carbon Black EDR Advanced Analyst-On Demand

This course, equivalent to 1 day of training, 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.

This course is also available in an Instructor-Led Training (ILT) format.

Intended Audience

Security operations personnel, including analysts and incident responders

Objectives

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

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 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