FOR508: Advanced Incident Response, Threat Hunting, and Digital Forensics - Live Online
An intruder who has been in the network for months does not announce themselves. They look like an administrator, use tools already installed, and clean up behind themselves. Finding them takes an analyst who knows normal well enough to notice when something is not.
FOR508 trains that analyst over six days of live, virtual instruction, built around a simulated enterprise breach you investigate from the first hour to the final report. The week moves from persistence and lateral movement through memory forensics, timeline analysis, and the artifacts attackers try to erase, closing with a full intrusion challenge across more than thirty systems.
During the Week, You'll Work Through:
- 35 hands-on labs
- An enterprise-scale intrusion challenge as the capstone
- Persistence detection, triage imaging with KAPE, and scaled response with Velociraptor
- Lateral movement tracking through event log, WMI, and PowerShell analysis
- Memory forensics with Volatility and MemProcFS, including code injection and rootkit detection
- Filesystem and super timeline creation, plus volume shadow copy and anti-forensics analysis
AI-Assisted Forensics, Human-Led Decisions
FOR508 incorporates AI-assisted forensic processing throughout, including agentic analysis of digital evidence and human-in-the-loop review where you approve, reject, or correct AI-generated findings. The course is explicit that trained analysts remain the ones making the call. You’ll get 36 CPE credits for this course, and it’s aligned to the GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA) certification.
Who Should Take This Course?
Incident response team members handling intrusions from advanced groups, threat hunters, SOC analysts who want to understand what sits behind their alerts, experienced forensic analysts expanding into memory and timeline work, detection engineers, and law enforcement professionals moving into intrusion investigation. Background equivalent to FOR508 is recommended.
