Identify how attackers are developing their techniques to use in your defensive strategy.

As defenders, the objective is to stop an adversary from achieving their goal. These adversaries are using both their own trade craft and other methods to launch attacks against organisations. This module will explore the various tools and methodologies that will help defenders keep up with the latest threat intelligence to understand how adversaries are operating and apply it to your defense strategy.

Nessus

Learn how to set up and use Nessus, a popular vulnerability scanner.

MITRE

Explore the various resources that MITRE has made available to the cyber security community.

Yara

Learn the applications and language that is Yara for everything threat intelligence, forensics, and threat hunting!

Zero Logon

Learn about and exploit the ZeroLogon vulnerability that allows an attacker to go from Zero to Domain Admin without any valid credentials.

OpenVAS

Learn the basics of threat and vulnerability management using Open Vulnerability Assessment Scanning

MISP

Walkthrough on the use of MISP as a Threat Sharing Platform

Topic Rewind Recap

Lock in what you learned with a recap. Earn points and keep your streak.

Need to know

Windows Exploitation Basics

Hacking Windows is often daunting. Grasp the fundamentals of core Windows concepts and Active Directory vulnerabilities.

Next steps

Security Operations & Monitoring

Learn how to configure and utilise tooling to ensure that suspicious activity is quickly identified and dealt within your environment.

What are modules?

A learning pathway is made up of modules, and a module is made of bite-sized rooms (think of a room like a mini security lab).

Hierarchical diagram showing how learning pathways contain modules, which contain individual rooms.

Threat and Vulnerability Management