>> Hey everyone, welcome to the malware threats course.
My name is Ken Underhill. I'll be
your instructor for this course.
In this video, we're going to talk
about any prerequisites you
might need to actually take
this course and be successful at it.
We're also going to talk about the intended audience.
We'll talk a little bit about
my background as your instructor,
along with any supplementary material
that might be available for the course,
as well as the overall course structure itself.
There really aren't any prerequisites,
but having some basic computer knowledge,
being familiar with how to navigate
a computer will be beneficial, especially VMs,
along with understanding operating
systems and how they work,
how file structures work,
as well as some basic
computer networking that's really going to
help you be successful in this particular course.
This audience for this course
is actually anyone interested in
getting into malware analysis instead of response,
more the defensive side of the house.
However, also for individuals
that may be interested in more of
the offensive side of the house.
Things like getting into
penetration testing, for example.
Now we don't actually walk you through
pen testing or anything in this course,
but this basic course will be
a good foundation for you to build
upon as you go either direction,
either defensive or offensive,
or a combination of both.
Who I'm I? Well,
my name is Ken Underhill, as I mentioned before.
I'm the master instructor at Cybrary.
I also hold a graduate degree in
cybersecurity and information assurance.
I'm also an agent professor of digital forensics.
I hold a couple of certs right now,
the EC council Certified Ethical Hacker
and computer hacking forensic
investigators certifications.
Many students have already seen
me very active on LinkedIn.
With this course, I've got
several step-by-step lab guides.
When you get to the lab section,
be sure to download those and walk through them.
The reason I do that is that way
if I go too fast or too slow,
in the video for the labs,
you can follow along at
your own pace that's comfortable for you.
This course is going to be a mixture of both slides.
You'll see here in the introduction and
in the next video as well,
we do the PowerPoint slide
and then we'll move into the actual lab.
That's going to be done inside
>> the CyberLab environment.
>> Just make sure that you have access to that
>> or you can just watch the videos
>> and follow along as well.
>> In this video, we talked
about the prerequisites for this course.
Again, just having some basic computer knowledge
along with how operating systems and networking works.
The audience is for individuals looking
to get that foundation in malware, what is it?
I keep hearing it in the media.
What is malware? Just taking a look
and getting some hands-on practice with it.
We talked about my background as
your instructor along with supplementary material.
Be sure to download the
step-by-step lab guides for this course,
it's going to really help you a lot.
Then we talked about the course structure.
It's going to be primarily hands-on lab,
but we do have some PowerPoints as well.
In the next video, we're going to talk about malware.
We'll find out what it is malware.
We'll talk about some of the common ones
you might have seen in the media.
Then we'll move into our labs after that.