Masterclass: System Forensics and Incident Handling

IT professionals, Forensics and Incident Handling Specialists, Security Consultants, Enterprise administrators, infrastructure architects, security professionals, systems engineers, network administrators, IT professionals, security consultants and other people responsible for implementing network and perimeter security.

After completing this course you should be able to:

• Understand the steps of the incident handling process
• Detect malicious applications and network activity
• Recognise common attack techniques that compromise hosts
• Detect and analyze system and network vulnerabilities
• Implement continuous process improvement by discovering the root cause of incidents

Module 1: Introduction to Incident Handling

• Types of Computer Security Incidents
• Signs of an Incident
• Incident Prioritization
• Incident Response and Handling Steps
• Procedures and Preparation

Module 2: Windows Internals

• Introduction to Windows Internals
• Fooling Windows Task Manager
• Processes and threads
• PID and TID
• Information gathering from the running operating system
• Obtaining Volatile Data
• A deep dive to Autoruns
• Effective permissions auditing
• PowerShell get NTFS permissions
• Obtaining permissions information with AccessChck
• Unnecessary and malicious services
• Detecting unnecessary services with PowerShell

Module 3: Memory Dumping and Analysis

• Introduction to memory dumping and analysis
• Creating memory dump - Belkasoft RAM Capturer and DumpIt
• Utilizing Volatility to analyze Windows memory image
• Analyzing Stuxnet memory dump with Volatility
• Automatic memory analysis with Volatile

Module 4: Indicators of compromise

• Yara rules language

Module 5: Storage Acquisition and Analysis

• Introduction to storage acquisition and analysis
• Drive Acquisition
• Mounting Forensic Disk Images
• Introduction to NTFS File System
• Windows File System Analysis
• Autopsy with other filesystems
• Building timelines

Module 6: Reporting – Digital Evidence

This module covers the restrictions and important details about digital evidence gathering. Moreover, a proper structure of digital evidence report will be introduced.