VMware Carbon Black EDR Advanced Administrator

System administrators and security operations personnel, including analysts and managers

• Describe the components and capabilities of the Carbon Black EDR server
• Identify the architecture and data flows for Carbon Black EDR communication
• Identify the architecture for a cluster configuration and Carbon Black EDR cluster communication
• Describe the Carbon Black EDR server data types and data locations
• Use the API to interact with the Carbon Black EDR server without using the UI
• Create custom threat feeds for use in the Carbon Black EDR server
• Perform the integration with a syslog server
• Use different server-side scripts for troubleshooting
• Troubleshoot sensor-side configurations and communication

This course requires completion of the following course:

• VMware Carbon Black EDR Administrator

1  Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2  Architecture

• Data flows and channels
• Sizing considerations
• Communication channels and ports

3  Server Datastores

• SOLR database
• Storage configurations and data aging
• Partition states
• Postgres
• Modulestore

4  EDR API

• CBAPI overview
• Viewing API calls in the browser
• Utilizing the API to access data

5  Threat Intelligence Feeds

• Feed structure
• Report indicator types
• Custom threat feed creation and addition

6  Syslog Integration

• SIEM support
• Configuration

7  Troubleshooting

• Server-side scripts
• Server logs
• Sensor operations