Hey everyone.
I'm Aaron Rosenmund,
a staff author for Pluralsight focused on security operations,
incident response, and a part‑time member of the Florida International
Guard working in defensive cyber operations.
Hey, this is Tyler Hudak. I do incident response as my primary job.
I'm a Pluralsight author and have been analyzing malware for a number of years.
Welcome to our Play by Play on Setting Up a Malware Analysis Lab.
Malware authors continue to advance their methods,
tactics, and techniques to evade defenses, hide in your
environments, and steal or hold your information at ransom.
The ability to identify new indicators of compromise extracted from new
strains of malware released daily is now more important to the success
of your security operations team and the protection of your
organization than ever. In this course,
we'll cover setting up virtual machine software to emulate a real
device, configuring Windows to look like a realistic environment,
and some of the tools that we'll use going forward to analyze
malware in future Play by Plays.
By the end of this Play by Play, you should feel comfortable creating a malware
sandbox and beginning dynamic analysis on Malware samples.
You'll also be able to follow along with the Play by Plays this series,
where we're going to talk about the analysis of new and prolific malware
samples to extract indicators of compromise for you to use to hunt for
infections in your environment.
We hope you'll join us on this journey to learn how to set up a malware
analysis lab in this Play by Play, at Pluralsight.