Successful completion of this instructor-led course with hands-on lab activities should enhance the student’s understanding of how to activate a Cortex XDR instance; create agent installation packages to install the Cortex XDR agents; create security policies and profiles to protect endpoints against multi-stage, fileless attacks built using malware and exploits; respond to attacks using response actions; understand behavioral threat analysis, log stitching, agent-provided enhanced endpoint data, and causality analysis; investigate and triage attacks using the incident management page of Cortex XDR and analyze alerts using the Causality and Timeline analysis views; use API to insert alerts; create BIOC rules; and search a lead in raw data sets in Cortex Data Lake using Cortex XDR Query Builder.
Target Audience
Cybersecurity analysts and engineers, and security operations specialists.
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Learning Objectives
After completing this course you should be able to:
- Differentiate the architecture and components of the Cortex XDR family
- Describe Cortex, Cortex Data Lake, the Customer Support Portal, and the hub
- Activate Cortex XDR, deploy the agents, and work with the management console
- Work with the Cortex XDR management console, describe a typical management page, and work with the tables and filter
- Create Cortex XDR agent installation packages, endpoint groups, policies, and profiles
- Create and manage exploit and malware profiles, and perform response actions
- Describe detection challenges with behavioral threats
- Differentiate the Cortex XDR rules BIOC and IOC, and create and manage them
- Describe the Cortex XDR causality analysis and analytics concepts
- Triage and investigate alerts and incidents, and create alert starring and exclusion policies
- Work with the Causality and Timeline Views and investigate threats in the Query Center
Pre-Requisites
Participants must be familiar with enterprise security concepts.
Course Content
Module 1: Cortex XDR Family Overview
Module 2: Working with the Cortex Apps
Module 3: Getting Started with Endpoint Protection
Module 4: Malware Protection
Module 5: Exploit Protection
Module 6: Exceptions and Response Actions
Module 7: Behavioral Threat Analysis
Module 8: Cortex XDR Rules
Module 9: Incident Management
Module 10: Alert Analysis Views
Module 11: Search and Investigate
Module 12: Basic Troubleshooting
Exams & Certification
There are no exams currently aligned to this course.
