Specialized Hunts: Threat Hunting within Virtual Machines
VMs are part of the environment in which an adversary can operate. This course will teach you how to set up and perform a specialized threat hunt within VMs.
What you'll learn
The surface area that an adversary can operate on includes a virtual one. In this course, Specialized Hunts: Threat Hunting within Virtual Machines, you’ll learn to set up and perform a specialized threat hunt. First, you’ll explore the security concerns and threats of VMs. Next, you’ll discover how to build a hypothesis based on real scenarios. Finally, you’ll learn how to hunt for malicious techniques by an adversary using VMs. When you finish this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of a specialized threat hunter needed to defend against advanced adversaries.
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About the author
Brandon DeVault is a Security Researcher focused on threat hunting at CrowdStrike. He is also a member of the Florida Air National Guard with a variety of offensive and defensive experience. Prior to joining CrowdStrike, Brandon worked full-time as an author with Pluralsight and at Elastic, creating and delivering security content. He also worked with Special Operations Command, where he had two deployments to Afghanistan on deployable communications teams. His experience spans incident response... more