SANS Institute - Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling

Course Number: SEC504

Learn how to detect malicious code and how to respond.

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• Outline: SANS Institute - Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling PDF
• Prerequisites
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Description

This six day course is a challenging course particularly well suited to individuals who lead or are part of an incident handling team or are penetration testers or RED TEAM members. It focuses on how to detect malicious code and how to respond.

If your organization has an Internet connection or a disgruntled employee, your computer systems will get attacked.

From the five, ten or even one hundred daily probes against your Internet infrastructure to the malicious insider slowly creeping through your most vital information assets to the spyware your otherwise wholesome users inadvertently downloaded, attackers are target your systems with increasing viciousness and stealth.

By helping you understand attackers? tactics and strategies in detail, giving you hands-on experience in finding vulnerabilities and discovering intrusions, and equipping you with a comprehensive incident handling plan, the in-depth information helps you turn the tables on computer attackers. This course addresses the latest cutting-edge insidious attach? vectors, the ?oldie-but-goodie? attacks that are still so prevalent, and everything in between.

Instead of merely teaching a few hack attack tricks, this course includes a time-tested, step-by-step process for responding to computer incidents; a detailed description of how attackers undermine systems so you can prepared, detect and respond to them; and a hands-on workshop for discovering holes before the bad guys do.

This workshop also includes the unique SAN?S Capture-the-Flag event on the last day where you will apply your skills developed throughout the session to match wits with your fellow students and instructor in a fun and engaging learning environment. You?ll get to attack the systems in our lab and capture the flags to help make the lessons from the whole week more concrete. Additionally, the course explores the legal issues associated with responding to computer attacks, including employee monitoring, working with law enforcement and handling evidence.

This challenging course is particularly well suited to individuals who lead or are part of an incident handling team. Furthermore, general security practitioners, system administrators and security architects will benefit by understanding how to design, build and operate their systems to prevent, detect and respond to attacks.

Prerequisites

Who Should Attend: Members and leaders of incident handling teams; System administrators and security personnel; Ethical hackers/penetration testers who want to understand the concepts underlying their testing regiment

List Price

$3350.00