Monitoring, Logging and Responding to Incidents

Course

In this course, you will discover the importance of incident detection and use the Snort Intrusion Detection System to automatically generate alerts based on suspicious network traffic. You will learn to analyze automated alerts for false positives and determine if they represent a real security threat. You will analyze network traffic using Wireshark and capture live traffic using tcpdump. You will also use Splunk to search and correlate security log data across multiple sources. Finally, you will follow incident handling procedures to respond and recover from security incident scenarios.

Intermediate
3 weeks
Last Updated January 10, 2025

Skills you'll learn:

Intrusion detection systemsSplunk

Prerequisites:

IT architecture diagrammingCybersecurity fluencyClient-server modelCommand line interface basicsDatabase design

Intermediate

3 weeks

Last Updated January 10, 2025

Skills you'll learn:

Intrusion detection systems • Splunk • Security information and event management • Cybersecurity incident response playbooks

Prerequisites:

IT architecture diagramming • Cybersecurity fluency • Client-server model

Course Lessons

Lesson 1

Foundations of Monitoring and Logging

Find out why monitoring and logging is essential to cybersecurity, learn about the history of log monitoring, and get started with the virtual machine you'll be using in this course.

Lesson 2

Incident Detection

Discover how to uncover security incidents using an Intrusion Detection System. Create and analyze IDS rules and security log data.

Lesson 3

Monitoring and Logging

Capture and analyze network traffic using tcpdump and Wireshark, and search security logs using Splunk, a powerful SIEM tool.

Lesson 4

Incident Handling

Find out about the process to remediate security incidents, and an important tool to handle incidents consistently: incident handling playbooks.

Lesson 5 • Project

Project: Intrusion Detection and Response

In this project you will be filling in for a colleague who is on vacation. You will review and make decisions about network-based Intrusion Detection System alerts.

Taught By The Best

Chris Herdt

SECURITY ANALYST III

Chris is a Security Analyst at the University of Minnesota and an Adjunct Instructor at Dunwoody College, specializing in network security, web application security and Linux operating system security. He has a Master's Degree of Computer and Information Technology from the University of Pennsylvania.

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