NSE 5: FortiEDR (Network Security Analyst) Learn how to use FortiEDR to protect your endpoints against advanced attacks with real-time orchestrated incident response functionality.

Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Explain the FortiEDR approach and how it works
• Identify the communicating components and how they are configured
• Schedule, organize, and tune a new deployment
• Carry out basic troubleshooting steps, including: verifying that FortiEDR is installed and actively blocking malware, identifying whether FortiEDR has blocked a process or connection, finding logs, and contacting FortiEDR Support
• Perform important administrative tasks, including: managing console users, updating collectors, deleting personal data for GDPR compliance, and viewing system events
• Complete basic tasks in of each area of the management console: the Dashboard, the Event Viewer, the Forensics tab, the Threat Hunting module, Communication Control, Security Policies, Playbooks, Inventory, and the Administration tab
• Manage security events and their status
• Block communication from applications that are risky or unwanted, but not inherently malicious
• Define next-generation antivirus, its role in FortiEDR, and where it falls in the order of operations
• Find and remove malicious executables from all the devices in your environment
• Use RESTful API to manage your FortiEDR environment
• Administer a multi-tenant environment
• Recognize what Fortinet Cloud Service is and how it works
• Troubleshoot collector upgrades and performance issues
• Obtain collector logs and memory dumps
• Have a basic understanding of the history of malware, how it exploits trust, and the persistence techniques used in malware today
• Triage PowerShell and CScript events, verify their destinations, and retrieve memory
• Prioritize, investigate, and analyze security events
• Remediate malicious events and create exceptions to allow safe processes

Outline

1. Overview and Technical Positioning
2. Installation and Architecture
3. Administration
4. Best Practices and Deployment
5. The User Interface in Depth Part 1
6. The User Interface in Depth Part 2
7. Events and Alerting
8. Help Desk Level 1 Triage
9. Communication Control
10. Next-Generation Antivirus
11. Threat Hunting
12. RESTful API
13. Multi-Tenancy
14. Fortinet Cloud Services
15. Advanced Troubleshooting
16. Endpoint Security 101
17. PowerShell and CScript
18. Alert Analysis 401