Conducting Forensic Analysis and Incident Response Using Cisco Technologies for CyberOps (CBRFIR)

In this Conducting Forensic Analysis and Incident Response Using Cisco Technologies for Cybersecurity course provides a comprehensive, investigation-focused exploration of digital forensics, threat intelligence, and incident response, emphasizing how security teams collect, analyze, correlate, and act on evidence across network, endpoint, and cloud environments. It is designed for SOC analysts, incident responders, and forensic investigators who need deep technical skills to understand adversary behavior, validate attacks, and support effective containment and remediation decisions. The course aligns investigative techniques with industry-standard frameworks and real-world operational workflows.

Students begin by examining adversary knowledge frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, CAPEC, CWE, and CVE, learning how attacker tactics, techniques, vulnerabilities, and weaknesses map to real incidents. The curriculum then focuses on evidence discovery and analysis, including network diagrams, logs, syslog facilities, response data formats, and intelligence sources across on-premises, endpoint, and cloud environments. Emphasis is placed on understanding where evidence resides and how to preserve it for reliable analysis.

Advanced modules guide students through forensic analysis using industry tools such as FTK, Autopsy, Wireshark, YARA, disassemblers, debuggers, and deobfuscation utilities, alongside native Windows and Linux forensic tools. Learners perform data acquisition from memory, disk, files, and cloud platforms, analyze RAM and fileless malware, correlate data across multiple sources, and use scripting to automate forensic tasks. The course culminates in full incident response workflows, including threat hunting, attack containment, remediation, evidence analysis, and presenting defensible investigation conclusions.

How you'll benefit

This training will help you:

• Develop an understanding of various cybersecurity threat and vulnerabilities
• Establish a framework for proactively responding to cybersecurity threat and vulnerabilities

After taking this training, you should be able to:

• Analyze the components needed for a root cause analysis report
• Apply tools such as YARA for malware identification
• Recognize the methods identified in the MITRE attack framework
• Leverage scripting to parse and search logs or multiple data sources such as, Cisco Umbrella, Sourcefire IPS, AMP for Endpoints, AMP for Network, and PX Grid
• Recommend actions based on post-incident analysis
• Determine data to correlate based on incident type (host-based and network-based activities)
• Evaluate alerts from sources such as firewalls, Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), data analysis tools (such as, Cisco Umbrella Investigate, Cisco Stealthwatch, and Cisco SecureX), and other systems to responds to cyber incidents and recommend mitigation
• Evaluate elements required in an incident response playbook and the relevant components from the ThreatGrid report
• Analyze threat intelligence provided in different formats (such as, STIX and TAXII)

This training is designed for the following roles:

• SOC Analysts, Tiers 1–2
• Threat Researchers
• Malware Analysts
• Forensic Analysts
• Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) Analysts
• Incident Response Analysts
• Security Operations Center Engineers
• Security Engineers

Before taking this training, you should have:

• Familiarity with network and endpoint security concepts and monitoring
• Experience with network intrusion analysis
• An understanding of security policies and procedures
• Experience with risk management
• Experience with traffic and logs analysis
• Familiarity with APIs
• 2–3 years’ experience working in a Security Operations Center (SOC) environment (experience Tier 1, or new Tier 2)

These recommended Cisco learning offerings may help students meet these prerequisites:

• Understanding Cisco Cybersecurity Operations Fundamentals (CBROPS)
• Performing CyberOps Using Cisco Security Technologies (CBRCOR)
• Splunk Fundamentals 1

Demo Videos

• Explore Adversarial Techniques, Tactics, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK), Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC), and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Common Weakness Enumeration Specification (CWE), and Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Frameworks
• Explore Available Incident-Related Information
• Examine Network Diagrams
• Examine Logs
• Examine Response Data Formats
• Discover Sources of Evidence in the Network
• Discover Sources of Evidence at Endpoints
• Discover Sources of Evidence in the Cloud
• Discover Syslog Facilities and Severity Levels
• Explore Gathered Intelligence
• Explore AccessData Forensic Toolkit (FTK) and Autopsy
• Explore Hex Encoding
• Explore Disassemblers and Debuggers
• Explore Deobfuscation Tools
• Explore Native Windows Tools Used in Digital Forensics and Incident Response
• Explore Native Linux Tools
• Explore Wireshark
• Create and Use a Yet Another Recursive Acronym (YARA) Rule
• Examine the Threat-Hunting Process
• Perform Data Acquisition
• Acquire Data from the Cloud
• Acquire Data Acquisition from Files, Disk, and Drive
• Analyze RAM and Fileless Malware Data
• Analyze Network Data
• Correlate Data from Different Sources
• Use Scripting for Forensics
• Analyze Web Application Logs
• Contain the Attack
• Remediate an Incident
• Analyze the Evidence and Propose the Solution