Advanced Malware Hunting & Prevention
This comprehensive course equips you with the skills to track down, analyze, and combat malicious software effectively. You will learn how to recognize malware, detect suspicious activities, and implement solutions to mitigate threats. The program covers the fundamentals of malware analysis, teaching you what makes a piece of code malicious through historical examples and an exploration of various malware types. Once you grasp the techniques and capabilities of malware, you will move on to system and network hardening, implementing advanced defense strategies such as application whitelisting and virtualization to protect critical assets. Sounds like a lot? Well, it’s because it is a lot!
By the end of the training, you’ll be prepared to defend against sophisticated threats and implement solid security measures, making you a confident and capable defender in the fight against cybercrime.
After completing this course, you will acquire, among others, the following skills:
- Understanding what are different types of malware and how they work
- Creating an isolated environment for analyzing malware
- Performing static and dynamic malware analysis
- Understanding and detecting persistent and stealth threats
- Defending against malware using various tools and techniques (including AI-powered tools)
- Implementing network whitelisting and application whitelisting
Prerequisites
Laptop with internet connection
Paula Januszkiewicz is the Founder and CEO of CQURE and CQURE Academy, companies she established back in 2008. She is also an Enterprise Security MVP, honorable Microsoft Regional Director, and a world-class cybersecurity expert, consulting Customers worldwide. In 2017, Paula graduated from Harvard Business School. She delivers keynotes and sessions at the biggest world conferences such as RSA, Black Hat, Microsoft Ignite, SecTor Canada, Australian Cyber Conference, GISEC, GITEX, LEAP, and many others. She is often a top-rated speaker, including being chosen as the No. 1 Speaker at Microsoft Ignite (among 1,100 speakers at a conference with 26,000 attendees) and at Black Hat Asia 2019. At the RSA Conference, two of her sessions were among the top 5 best rated. Paula is known for her unique stage presence that is always well-received among diverse audiences, often gathering thousands of people!
Paula has over 19 years of experience in the cybersecurity field, performing penetration tests, architecture consulting, trainings, and seminars. Every year, she takes over 200 flights to provide cybersecurity services for CQURE’s Customers. Paula and her Team also design security awareness programs for various organizations, including awareness sessions for top management. Together, they create various security tools (CQTools) supporting penetration tests, incident response, and forensics, which are shared with the community. Paula is a member of the Technical Advisory Board at the Royal Bank of Scotland/Natwest. And to top it all off, she has access to the source code of Windows!