This course covers the fundamentals of Cyber Threat Hunting; how to build out a hunt program in your own environment; and how to identify, define, and execute a hunt mission.

Cyber Threat Hunting introduces essential concepts for network and endpoint hunting and then allows learners to apply techniques to hunt for anomalous patterns. Hands-on activities follow real-world use cases to identify attacker techniques. Learners leave the course with critical information for establishing hunt programs within their organization, templates that can be used to document hunt missions, and concrete use cases that they can leverage to hunt in their own environment.

Throughout the course, instructors provide guidance on hunting across typical security toolsets such as SIEM, packet capture, and Trellix Endpoint Security (HX); learners attending the course do not need a prior knowledge of specific Trellix technology to benefit from the instruction, however, lab activities are leveraged on the following Trellix technologies: Helix, Endpoint Security (HX) and Trellix Network Forensics. For example, endpoint hunting use cases leverage either Endpoint Security (HX), or Helix, or both, to acquire data used in the hunt mission.

• Define Cyber Threat Hunting and articulate its value to an organization
• Create or enhance an existing hunting program
• Understand how to identify key stakeholders within an organization
• Leverage provided use cases for your hunting program
• Build hunt missions for threat hunting in your organization
• Leverage both endpoint and network data for successful hunting
• Use relevant threat models to implement a hunt mission by acquiring and analyzing relevant data
• Identify areas of the hunt process that can be automated

Hunting Fundamentals

• Types of hunting
• Hunting process
• Defining hunt missions
• Creating a hunt program
• Identifying key stakeholders
• Defining and leveraging cyber threat intelligence
• Effecting threat modeling

Acquiring and Analyzing Endpoint Data at Scale

• Operating system technology review
• Malware hiding techniques
• Uncovering internal reconnaissance
• Uncovering lateral movement
• Data acquisition techniques

Acquiring and Analyzing Network Data at Scale

• Network technology review
• Tunneling techniques
• Exfiltration techniques
• Suspicious HTTP traffic
• Data acquisition techniques

This is a fast-paced technical course that is designed to provide hands-on experience hunting for attackers in modern enterprise environments, including collecting and analyzing endpoint and network evidence. The content and pace is intended for students with some background in incident response, forensic analysis, network traffic analysis, log analysis, security assessments, and/or penetration testing. It is also well suited for those managing incident response or hunt teams or who are in roles that require oversight of cyber threat hunting and other investigative tasks.

Students taking this course should have a working knowledge of Windows operating systems, networking and network security, file system, registry, and regular expressions. Scripting experience with Python or PowerShell is beneficial. Completion of Endpoint Investigations instructor-led course is also required.