Introduction to Incident Handling

1. Types and examples of cybersecurity incidents
2. Signs of an incident
3. Incident prioritization
4. Incident response and handling steps
5. Procedures and preparation

Incident Response and Handling Steps

1. How to identify an incident
2. Incidents handling techniques
3. Incident response team services
4. Defining the relationship between incident response, incident handling and incident management
5. Incident response best practices
6. Incident response policy
7. Incident response plan checklist
8. Incident handling preparation
9. Incident prevention
10. Following the containment strategy to stop unauthorized access
11. Eradication and recovery
12. Detecting the inappropriate usage incidents
13. Multiple component incidents
14. Containment strategy to stop multiple component incidents

Windows Internals

1. Introduction to Windows Internals
2. Processes and threads
3. PID and TID
4. Information gathering from the running operating system
5. Obtaining Volatile data
6. A deep dive to Autoruns
7. Effective permissions auditing
8. PowerShell get NTFS permissions
9. Obtaining permissions information with AccessChk
10. Unnecesseray and malicious services
11. Detecting unnecessary services with PowerShell

Handling Malicious Code Incidents

1. Count of malware samples
2. Virus, worms, trojans and spywares
3. Incident handling preparation
4. Incident prevention
5. Detection of malicious code
6. Containment strategy
7. Evidence gathering and handling
8. Eradication and recovery

Network Forensics and Monitoring

1. Types and approaches to network monitoring
2. Network evidence acquisition
3. Network protocols and logs
4. Gathering data from network security appliances
5. Detecting intrusion patterns and attack indicators
6. Data correlation
7. Hunting malware in network traffic
8. Encoding and encryption
9. Denial-of-Service incidents
10. Distributed Denial-of-Service attack
11. Detecting DoS attack
12. Incident handling preparation for DoS
13. DoS reponse and preventing strategies

Securing Monitoring Operations and Evidence Gathering

1. Industry best practices
2. Objectives of forensics analysis
3. Role of forensics analysis in incident response
4. Forensic readiness and business continuity
5. Types of computer forensics
6. Computer forensics investigator
7. Computer forensics process
8. Collecting electronic evidence
9. Challenging aspects of digital evidence
10. Forensics in the information system life cycle
11. Forensics analysis guidelines
12. Forensics analysis tools
13. Memory acquisition techniques

Memory: Dumping and Analysis

1. Introduction to memory dumping and analysis
2. Creating memory dump – Belkasoft RAM Capturer and DumpIt
3. Utilizing Volatility to analyze Windows memory image
4. Analyzing Stuxnet memory dump with Volatility
5. Automatic memory analysis with Volatile

Memory: Indicators of compromise

1. Yara rules language
2. Malware detonation
3. Introduction to reverse engineering

Disk: Storage Acquisition and Analysis

1. Introduction to storage acquisition and analysis
2. Drive acquisition
3. Mounting forensic disk images
4. Virtual disk images
5. Signature vs. file carving
6. Introduction to NTFS file system
7. Windows file system analysis
8. Autopsy with other filesystems
9. External device usage data extraction (USB usage etc.)
10. Reviving the account usage
11. Extracting data relate with the recent use of application, file etc.
12. Recovering data after deleting partitions
13. Extracting delete file and file related information
14. Extracting data from file artifacts like $STANDARD_INFORMATION etc.
15. Password recovery
16. Extracting Windows Indexing Service data
17. Deep-dive into automatic destinations
18. Detailed analysis of Windows Prefetch
19. Extracting information about program execution (UserAssist, RecentApps, Shimcache, appcompatcache etc.)
20. Extracting information about browser usage (web browsing history, cache, cookies etc.)
21. Communicator apps data extraction
22. Extracting information about network activity
23. Building timelines

Reporting – Digital Evidence

This module covers the restrictions and important details about digital evidence gathering. Moreover, a proper structure of digital evidence report will be introduced.