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Setting Up a Malware Analysis Lab

In this course, you’ll learn how to set up a malware analysis sandbox for discovering indicators of compromise specific to the variants of malware threatening your organization.

Tyler Hudak - Pluralsight course - Setting Up a Malware Analysis Lab
by Tyler Hudak
Aaron Rosenmund - Pluralsight course - Setting Up a Malware Analysis Lab
by Aaron Rosenmund

What you'll learn

In this course, Setting Up a Malware Analysis Lab, Aaron Rosenmund and Tyler Hudak discuss why you need to have your own malware analysis lab. There are variety of roles outside of reverse engineering that performs dynamic analysis of malware samples. Having the skills to identify the indicators of compromise make you invaluable to incident response and security operations teams. You will learn not only how to build a virtual machine, but also how to modify the operating system to properly trick the malware into believing it is in a safe place to detonate, what tools to use, and how to run them in your own malware analysis lab.

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About the authors

Tyler Hudak - Pluralsight course - Setting Up a Malware Analysis Lab
Tyler Hudak

Tyler Hudak has more than 15 years of experience performing malware analysis, computer forensics, and incident response for multiple organizations. He loves sharing the knowledge he has gained on these topics in his presentations and classes!

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Aaron Rosenmund - Pluralsight course - Setting Up a Malware Analysis Lab
Aaron Rosenmund

Aaron M. Rosenmund is a cyber security operations subject matter expert, with a background in federal and business defensive and offensive cyber operations and system automation.

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