- Lab
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Incident Response and Threat Intelligence with Zeek
Master the fundamentals of network threat detection and incident response with Zeek's powerful analysis capabilities. You'll start by developing custom detection scripts to identify port scans, SQL injection attempts, and brute force attacks in captured network traffic. From there, you'll implement file extraction and hash-based malware detection to identify malicious executables transferred across the network. The lab culminates in deploying advanced correlation rules that detect multi-stage attacks and command-and-control communications. Throughout the exercises, you'll work with real network captures from a security incident at Globomantics, applying detection techniques essential for SOC analysts and incident responders.

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Challenge
Detect Suspicious Network Activity with Zeek Scripts
In this step, you’ll create and deploy Zeek scripts to identify suspicious patterns in network traffic. By the end, you’ll be able to write basic Zeek signatures to detect common attack patterns.
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Challenge
File Analysis and Malware Detection
In this step, you'll configure Zeek to automatically extract all files transferred over the network, generate cryptographic hashes of these files, and compare them against known malware signatures. This challenge will teach you how to use Zeek for forensic file extraction and automated malware detection in network traffic.
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Challenge
The Final Objective
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