How to Stand Up Fun Incident Response Exercises with Zero Experience
Overview
Course Overview
This course will teach you how to utilise publicly available resources to create fast and fun tabletop discussion exercises, without any previous experience. This course will discuss gamifying the experience, and where to find examples to create your scenarios. At the end of the course, you will be able to stand up scenarios to train your response teams in an enjoyable and engaging way.
Course Outline
This course will cover the following topics:
- Why should we practice Incident Response
- High level definitions and overview of incident handling process
- What you should have in your tabletop scenario toolkit
- Key parts of the tabletop session
- Putting it all together – what the end looks like
Course Materials
Anthony Vaccaro
Anthony has worked in IT for a decade, first at the University of Queensland and AusCERT before joining APNIC in 2019. He has experience working with variousUNIX-based server operating systems, although his expertise lies with Linux, and he enjoys understanding the internals of operating systems and finding the cause of bottlenecks, performance issues and other problems.
Anthony has had a background in security from an early age, being interested in hacking since he was a teenager. These days, he works as a defender and blue-teamer, but he has experience with web application pen testing and network-based attacks as well.