Sans SEC504

Blue Team Curriculum

504.1: Incident Response and Cyber Investigations

  • SOC Overview
  • Defensible Network Concepts
  • Events, Alerts, Anomalies, and Incidents
  • Incident Management Systems
  • Threat Intelligence Platforms
  • SIEM and Automation

504.2: Scanning and Enumeration Attacks

  • Network Architecture
  • Understanding DNS
  • DNS Analysis and Attacks
  • Understanding HTTP
  • HTTP(S) Analysis and Attacks
  • Understanding SMTP and Email
  • Additional Network Protocols

504.3: Password Attacks and Exploit Frameworks

  • Endpoint Attack Tactics
  • Endpoint Defense In Depth
  • How Windows Logging Works
  • How Linux Logging Works
  • Interpreting Important Events
  • Log Collection, Parsing, and Normalization
  • File Contents and Identification
  • Identifying and Handling Suspicious Files

504.4: Web Application Attacks

  • Alert Triage and Prioritization
  • Perception, Memory, and Investigation
  • Models and Concepts for Infosec
  • Structured Analytical Techniques
  • Analysis Questions and Tactics
  • Analysis OPSEC
  • Intrusion Discovery
  • Incident Closing and Quality Review

504.5: Evasion and Post-Exploitation Attacks

  • Improving Life in the SOC
  • Analytic Features and Enrichment
  • New Analytic Design, Testing, and Sharing
  • Tuning and False Positive Reduction
  • Automation and Orchestration
  • Improving Operational Efficiency and Workflow
  • Containing Identified Intrusions
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