VMware Carbon Black EDR Administrator

System administrators and security operations personnel, including analysts and managers

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Describe the components and capabilities of the Carbon Black EDR server
• Identify the architecture and data flows for Carbon Black EDR communication
• Describe the Carbon Black EDR server installation process
• Manage and configure the Carbon Black EDR sever based on organizational requirements
• Perform searches across process and binary information
• Implement threat intelligence feeds and create watchlists for automated notifications
• Describe the different response capabilities available from the Carbon Black EDR server
• Use investigations to correlate data between multiple processes

There are no prerequisites for this course.

1  Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2  Planning and Installation

• Hardware and software requirements
• Architecture
• Data flows
• Server installation review
• Installing sensors

3  Server Administration

• Configuration and settings
• Carbon Black EDR users and groups

4  Process Search and Analysis

• Filtering options
• Creating searches
• Process analysis and events

5  Binary Search and Banning Binaries

• Hash banning

6  Search best practices

• Search operators
• Advanced queries

7  Threat Intelligence

• Enabling alliance feeds
• Threat reports details
• Use and functionality

8  Watchlists

• Creating watchlists

9  Alerts / Investigations / Response

• Using the HUD
• Alerts workflow
• Using network isolation
• Using live response