Technical deep dive with Incident Response tools (Coursera)

Offered by Infosec,
Technical deep dive with Incident Response tools (Coursera)

The Cyber Incident Response course will give students an understanding of how incidents are responded to at a high level, as well as allow them to build important technical skills through the hands-on labs and projects. This course starts with a high-level discussion of what happens at each phase of responding to an incident, followed by a technical deep dive into some of the more exciting parts of memory, network, and host analysis and forensics.

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This course is for anyone wishing to apply learned forensics and offensive knowledge such as ethical hacking to the incident response process.

Course 3 of 3 in the Cyber Incident Response Specialization

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Network Forensics
Witness the incident response process from the perspective of a responder using real tools of the trade to detect, contain, and investigate cyber incidents, and eradicate threats. Follow the instructor as he examines two realistic scenarios: one of a data breach and the other of an incident that is still ongoing.

WEEK 2
Memory Forensics

WEEK 3
Incident Response Scenario 1: Data Breach/Hacking Incident

WEEK 4
Incident Response Scenario 2: Live Ongoing Hacking Incident

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