TA400 - Identifying Common Hacker Techniques, Methods, Vectors

Class Overview

This TA400 training class equips analysts to better prepare, detect and respond to malicious threats by covering common hacker tactics and strategies. Attacks can often be reduced to step-by-step offensive methods and vectors. Proactive and reactive defenses are essential in each network layer to thwart each stage of an attack. Attack surfaces vary from Windows to Unix, switches, routers, and other systems. Visibility of network, system, and application-level vulnerabilities is essential. Specific organization strategies and tools should be in place to effectively detect multiple attack types. This includes the development of an incident handling process. The team should be prepared for both active engagements and recovery procedures. Recovery and reconstitution should be regularly evaluated in the form of exercises.

Class Outline

• Hacking
• Enumeration / Gathering Information
• Common Hacking Tools
• Understanding Vulnerability Assessments
• Initial Access vs. Privilege Escalation
• Password Cracking
• Databases
• Web Servers
• Session Hijacking
• File-Based Exploits
• Phishing
• DNS Attacks
• Virus and Malicious Code
• Denial of Service (DoS / DDoS)