Incident Handling and Hacking Techniques

Course description

This course enables participants to turn the tables on computer attackers by helping you understand their tactics and strategies by providing participants with hands on experience in finding vulnerabilities and discovering intrusions, and equipping you with a comprehensive incident handling plan. It addresses the latest cutting-edge insidious attack vectors, the “oldie-but-goodie” attacks that are still prevalent, and everything in between. Instead of merely teaching a few hack attack tricks, this course provides a time-tested, step-by-step process to respond to computer incidents and a detailed description of how attackers undermine systems so the participants can prevent, detect, and respond to them. Participants will experience practical workshop that focuses on scanning, exploiting, and defending systems. Participants will benefit by understanding how to design, build, and operate their systems to thwart attacks. This course also addresses incident handling methods used when information security is compromised.

Course outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Prepare step-by-step approach used by many computer attackers
• Proactive and reactive defenses for each stage of a computer attack
• Identify active attacks and compromises
• Ensure that attackers do not return
• Recover from computer attacks and restore systems for business
• Understand and use hacking tools and techniques.
• Understand Ethical Hacking concepts
• Apply strategies and tools to detect each type of attack
• Learn the Application-level vulnerabilities, attacks, and defenses
• Develop an incident handling process and prepare a team for battle
• Understand the Legal issues in incident handling techniques

Course contents

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🔽 0 h 37 min | Introduction to Real World Incidents

What constitutes an incident?
What is incident response?
Where we are now?
Why should you care about incident response?
Case studies

🔽 1 h 03 min | Introduction about Incident Response (IR) Management

What is a computer security incident?
What are the goals of incident response?
Who is involved in the IR process?
Finding IR talent
How to hire IR talent
The incident response process
Tracking of significant investigative information

🔽 0 h 45 min | Overview of Pre-Incident Preparation

Preparing the organization for incident response
Preparing the IR team
Preparing the infrastructure for incident response

🔽 0 h 34 min | Cyber Intelligence, Cyber Conflicts, and Cyber Warfare

Introduction
Cyberspace
Cyber intelligence and counter intelligence
Cyberspace and cyber intelligence

🔽 0 h 42 min | Introduction to Digital Forensics

Definition of computer forensics
Evolution of computer forensics
Uses of computer forensics
Role of forensics investigator
Forensics readiness

🔽 0 h 42 min | Introduction to Cyber Terrorism-Meaning, Challenges and Issues

Cyber terrorism-meaning
Characteristics of cyber terrorism
Cyber terrorism-challenges and problems
Who are cyber terrorists?
Computer attack and cyber terrorism
Characteristics of physical attack
Six types of hacker motivations

🔽 0 h 55 min | Introduction to Ethical Hacking, Information Gathering Techniques, Vulnerability Assessment, Network Sniffing and Social Engineering