Instructor
Marc Balingit
Security Research
Marc Balingit is a seasoned professional in defensive security with experience conducting incident responses for large-scale data breaches, compromised systems, malware outbreaks, and more.
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DFIR Operator Series: Overview Course
Get the foundation you need to continue pursuing incident response. Explore what digital forensics means, what digital evidence is, where to find it, how digital forensics can help your organization, and what’s next on your journey to becoming a DFIR professional.
Challenge: Space Mission
In this challenge, you will take on a cryptography challenge by decrypting intercepted encrypted messages. Malicious attackers use cryptography to their advantage for attacks and remaining undetected. The goal is to show how attackers can effortlessly embed data within messages to hide their activity.
Challenge: A Message Within A Message
In this challenge, you will take on a cryptography challenge by decrypting intercepted encrypted messages. Malicious attackers use cryptography to their advantage for attacks and remaining undetected. The goal is to show how attackers can effortlessly embed data within messages to hide their activity.
Challenge: Don't Believe What You Hear
In this challenge, you will take on a Steganography challenge identifying embedded data within an audio file. Malicious attackers use Steganography for attacks such as macro-enabled Word documents, to conceal covert communication, and more. The goal is to show how attackers can effortlessly embed data within files to hide their activity.
Challenge: Chatting with ChatGPT
In this challenge, we will take a different approach and dive into the world of AI technology. By completing this challenge, you will learn more about ChatGPT, how it works, its capabilities, and its limitations. As cybersecurity professionals, it is essential to adapt to the ever-changing technology and security landscape.
Challenge: Saving a Fellow Monster
In this challenge, you will take on a Steganography challenge identifying embedded data within an image. Malicious attackers use Steganography for attacks such as macro-enabled Word documents, to conceal covert communication, and more. The goal is to show how attackers can effortlessly embed data within files to hide their activity.
Challenge: Gobble Gobble Conceal & Deceive
In this challenge, you will take on a Steganography challenge identifying embedded data within an image. Malicious attackers use Steganography for attacks such as macro-enabled Word documents, to conceal covert communication, and more. The goal is to show how attackers can effortlessly embed data within files to hide their activity.
Challenge: Malware in a Haystack
This challenge will have you hunting for evidence of persistence, a tactic that threat actors commonly use to maintain a foothold within a compromised environment. The goal is to find the needle in the haystack to determine abnormal versus normal system behavior.
Challenge: Back to the Cereal
This challenge will have you analyze a $MFT Windows artifact to identify unauthorized activity. The goal is to see from a blue teamer's point of view the actions an unauthorized user may take on a victim's system when an attacker wants to hide their activity.
Challenge: For the Rebellion or the Empire
This challenge will have you analyze traditional Registry artifacts to identify unauthorized activity. The goal is to see from a blue teamer's point of view the actions an unauthorized user may take on a victim's system when there are inadequate security controls in place.
Careers In Cybersecurity
Getting started in cybersecurity can be tough, and the number of careers seems endless. This course will get you hands-on with six of the most common cybersecurity roles, including penetration tester, digital forensics, cloud security, governance, security analyst, and security engineer. Decide which career is right for you today!
Marc has led, managed, and performed global incident response investigations focused on large-scale data breaches, system compromises, data exfiltration, ransomware, and malware outbreaks. He has worn many hats throughout his Incident Response career, including proactive and reactive services. Outside Blue Teaming, Marc is passionate about Vulnerability Research and Malware Analysis. He is a Technical SME at Cybrary, focusing on Threat Actors and Blue Teaming for course content.