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SEC598: Security Automation for Offense, Defense, and Cloud

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    Translate repeatable activities into automated tasks.
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    Automate prevention, detection, and response capabilities for specific attack techniques used by real-world adversaries and red teamers.
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    Improve the effectiveness of your SOC by uncovering opportunities for efficiencies across tier 1 and tier 2 responsibilities.
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    Leverage technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and SOAR tools to automate secure configurations, set a desired-state configuration, deploy infrastructure as code in different environments, and detect and respond to security incidents.
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    Implement cloud security automation in AWS and Azure.
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    Create a continuous, automation-enhanced approach to purple teaming.

Overview

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SEC598: Security Automation for Offense, Defense, and Cloud will equip you with the expertise to apply automated solutions to prevent, detect, and respond to security incidents. Students first train to understand the concept of automation, then learn how existing technologies can be best leveraged to build automation stories that translate repeatable problems to automated scripts.

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Face to face

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Virtual

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Digital

Course duration
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42 hours

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Working

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Delivery method
  • face to face icon

    Face to face

  • Virtual icon

    Virtual

  • Digital icon

    Digital

Course duration
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42 hours

Competency level
  • Working icon

    Working