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Introducting to Threat Hunting
Rating: 3.9 out of 5(14 ratings)
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Introducting to Threat Hunting

Threat Hunting Professional Fundamentals
Created byRichea Perry
Last updated 11/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • The mindset set and skills required to be an effective Threat Hunter.
  • How to conduct basic threat hunts.
  • How to configure basic to advance environments to conduct threat hunting.
  • Understand the various approaches to threat hunting.
  • Understand the Threat Hunting loop & threat hunting Products

Course content

4 sections • 16 lectures • 1h 27m total length

  • Introduction2:11

    Acquire essential knowledge and skills to become a successful online professional through a largely theoretical foundation, with practical threat hunting skills demonstrated via scenarios and lots of resources.

  • What is Threat Hunting & Its Primary objective?2:38

    Pursue indications of compromise through threat hunting, a proactive, human-led cyber defense activity that intercepts attacks before damage and mitigates damage in progress, addressing APTs, with SolarWinds as an example.

  • What is Threat Hunting & Its Primary objective.1:41

    Discover threat hunting as a proactive process with a clear primary objective, debunking misconceptions about SOC duties, log reviews, dashboards, and endpoint detection and response alerts.

  • Why threat hunt and attributes of an effective threat hunter5:05

    Learn why threat hunting is proactive, improves productivity, offers retrospective insights, and a wide field of view; develop patient, detail-oriented, analytical, outside-the-box attributes to mitigate threats.

  • Threat Hunting Skillset Requirements3:29

    Develop the threat hunting skillset with cybersecurity experience, knowledge of network and endpoint security, data and intelligence analysis, forensics, malware reverse engineering, attack methods, operating systems, network protocols, and automation.

  • Terms associated with Threat Hunting6:17

    Learn key terms used in threat hunting, including anomaly, data loss prevention, indicators of compromise, insider threat, TDPs, threat hunter, threat intelligence, and SIEM, and how they guide incident response.

  • Threat Hunting Loop3:53

    Apply the threat hunting loop to select a tactic using the Mighta attack framework, form a testable hypothesis, collect data, and draw conclusions for remediation.

  • What is Required for Successful Threat Hunting7:11

    Combine telemetry, data, tools, and processes to conduct successful threat hunting with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana for correlation, visualization, and instant investigation and response.

  • Threat Hunting Approaches6:29

    Explore threat hunting approaches and the pyramid of indicators of compromise, comparing IOC-based, tools-based, and TTP-based methods using telemetry data and detection rules.

  • Hypothesis Testing & Sources of Hypothesis6:16

    Proactively hunt insider threats by forming testable hypotheses and testing them with data from the MITRE ATT&CK framework, threat intelligence reports, blogs, Twitter, and incident response.

  • 7 Effective Threat Hunting Tips6:26

    Learn seven threat-hunting tips to detect adversaries: identify command-and-control indicators, scope data, bookmark first-pass findings, use visualization, filter noise, and spot service oddities to strengthen defenses.

Requirements

  • The learner must have a basic understand of network and information security.
  • The learner must have a basic understand of programming or scripting-querying skills.
  • The learner must have a basic understand of ethical hacking methodology.

Description

About this course

Learn to develop the skills & mindset required to become a professional cybersecurity threat hunter.


Description

Are you trying to pivot in your IT\cybersecurity career? Then this course is a great way to find an area of cybersecurity in which you can develop your skills.


This course is also valuable for those who are already in cybersecurity and want to get a high-level understanding of what is involved in threat hunting.

This course can help you improve your chances of landing your first cybersecurity job because you will learn the skills that can help an organization become more secure in its operations.


This course is designed for entry-level or aspiring cybersecurity professionals.


What you’ll learn

Section-1

What is Threat Hunting & Its Primary objective

Why conduct threat hunting

What threat hunting is not

Why Threat Hunt?

Attributes of an effective Threat Hunter

What is required for threat hunting

Terms associated with threat hunting

Threat Hunting Loop

What is Required for Successful Threat Hunting

Techniques for Successful Hunting

What makes Threat Hunting Effective

Threat Hunting approaches

Hypothesis Testing & Sources of Hypothesis.

7 Effective Threat Hunting Tips

SECTION-2

Threat Hunting Approaches.

Threat Hunting Tools & Products

Demo-Simulate a threat hunting hypothetical scenario

Indicators of threat attacks\IoC

Demo of basic threat hunt using system monitor & the event viewer

Section-3

Next steps to developing practical threat hunting skills


Who this course is for:

  • This course is intended for persons who are already familiar with cybersecurity and want to specialize in Threat Hunting
  • This course is also designed for the general IT professional who just want to have a basic understand of what is involved in threat hunting at an high level.

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