In one sense, this is the finish line. In another, it's the loud and confident start of your journey into the incident response lifestyle. You've come a long way, learning how attackers use a wide range of techniques, how to detect each one, and what to do once you find them. You're ready. Trust us, you're ready to move forward and start handling real incidents, and that's exactly why you took this path! In this room, we'll talk about what comes next. You may already have a plan, but either way, you'll probably pick up something new here!

Learning Objectives

• Identify the next steps to keep growing your DFIR skills after the path
• Understand how the skills from this path strengthen your team's incident response capability
• Use the course cheat sheet to quickly map attacker techniques to the logs, artifacts, and tools that detect them

Prerequisites

This room wraps up the entire path, so it's most valuable once you've completed the previous modules:

• Check out the Windows Incident Response & Forensics path to make sure you've covered every module before this summary
• Check out IR Report Writing, the final room before this summary, to turn your findings into a structured incident report