• Recognize current malware threats and trends
• Understand the threat detection and prevention capabilities of your Trellix Security solution
• Locate and use critical information in a Trellix alert to assess a potential threat
• Examine OS and file changes in alert details to identify malware behaviors
• Identify indicators of compromise (IOCs) in a Trellix alert and use them to identify compromised hosts

Threats and Malware Trends

• Malware overview and definition
• Motivations of malware
• MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Types of malware
• Emerging threat actors

Trellix File Protect

• Features and benefits
• Configuring storage and scans
• Accessing and reviewing
• Analysis results

MVX Alerts

• APIs
• File and folder actions
• Code injection
• Processes
• Mutexes
• Windows Registry events
• Network access
• User account access (UAC)

This course is intended for security professionals and incident responders who use File Protect to detect, investigate, and prevent cyber threats.

Students taking this course should have a working knowledge of networking and network security, the Windows operating system, file system, registry, and use of the command line interface (CLI).