Need some recommendations on good IR hands-on training

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Does anyone know if there is any good hands-on training for incident response and digital forensics, or certification I need to take in order to gain more hands-on experience? Thanks and any helpful information is appreciated.

I guess in my own time. SANS is just too expensive -- around $5000 for each course and I am still not sure if the company will pay for me. So are there other choices? Thanks. — Yang Yu, Feb 22 '16 at 18:57

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 05 '16 at 00:37

One good place to start is Open Security Training. Despite the site design, they have some quality material there for you to work through.

As you noted, you'll want some hands-on experience as well. Finding challenges online can help with this. You can look at test images (some will be old but still useful!) or, if you're looking more into incident response than digital forensics, the Honeynet Challenges and Malware Traffic Analysis exercises.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 05 '16 at 02:52

On IronGeek (or YouTube, and free):

On SafariBooksOnline Videos (monthly-pay access):

On Udemy (one-time-pay access):

On PluralSight (one-time-pay access or monthly):

https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/digital-forensics-tools-kali-linux-imaging-hashing

On Lynda (through LinkedIn, one-time-pay, or monthly-pay access):

http://www.lynda.com/Developer-tutorials/Computer-Forensics-Essential-Training/170337-2.html

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 10 '17 at 04:31

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SANS training is excellent: https://www.sans.org/course/advanced-incident-response-threat-hunting-training

Even just taking GCUX which had a 1 day IR training was very impactful.

Free blog : https://digital-forensics.sans.org/blog

answered Jun 10 '17 at 04:31

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