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Automated Incident Response Using AI

In this lab, you’ll practice and develop skills to integrate AI and automate aspects of an incident response process. When you’re finished, you’ll have the necessary skills and knowledge to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) in security.

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Level
Clock icon Beginner
Duration
Clock icon 1h 25m
Published
Clock icon Mar 21, 2025

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Getting Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Authentication Detection

    In this challenge, you will use Python scripts and AI to analyze authentication logs taken from the corporate network's Linux-hosted web server. You will then import the logs and automatically analyze them for anomalies.

  3. Challenge

    AI and Incident Response Integration

    In this challenge, you will use Python scripts, AI, and TheHive incident response platform to help automate incident response processes. This will reduce administrative tasks, allowing you to focus more on analysis.

  4. Challenge

    The Last Challenge

    Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.

Tim Coakley is a Senior Security Solutions Architect for a large multi-national organisation and an author at PluralSight. Tim started a long and successful full-time career in Digital Forensics supporting the criminal justice system and law enforcement on a long list of criminal cases.

What's a lab?

Hands-on Labs are real environments created by industry experts to help you learn. These environments help you gain knowledge and experience, practice without compromising your system, test without risk, destroy without fear, and let you learn from your mistakes. Hands-on Labs: practice your skills before delivering in the real world.

Provided environment for hands-on practice

We will provide the credentials and environment necessary for you to practice right within your browser.

Guided walkthrough

Follow along with the author’s guided walkthrough and build something new in your provided environment!

Did you know?

On average, you retain 75% more of your learning if you get time for practice.