This course covers basic NetWitness Platform functionality, introducing the student to foundational aspects of the solution.
Audience
Anyone interested in the administration and operations of the NetWitness Platform.
Duration: 2 days
Prerequisites Knowledge/Skills
NetWitness Platform Foundations
$2,310 USD ⁓ 2,000 Training Credits
Delivery Types:
This course is delivered in 2 Modalities:
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Virtual - Instructor Led Training (VILT) v12.4
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On-Demand Classroom (ODC) v12.4 (Select related version to access training)
NetWitness Platform Administration I version 12.4
Access Training
for Customers/Partners
Access Training
for NetWitness Employees
Course Overview
This classroom-based course provides an overview of essential administrative tasks that are performed to get NetWitness Platform up and running. Students gain insight into configuring hosts and services and managing users within NetWitness Platform and gain practical experience by performing a series of hands-on labs.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this training, the learner should be able to:
- Describe the NetWitness Platform Architecture
- Configure NetWitness hosts
- Configure NetWitness system settings
- Describe the NetWitness licensing model
- Decoder Configuration Guide for 12.4
- Configure Event Stream Analysis
- Configure the Archiver
- Configure Live
- Configure the Context Hub
- Configure the Reporting Engine
- Manage NetWitness services on the command line
- Gather data for Customer Support using a script
- Configure the NetWitness Endpoint Log Hybrid
- Generate and deploy the NetWitness Endpoint Agents
- Configure NetWitness Endpoint agents
- Describe NetWitness Endpoint Groups and Policies
- Describe the NetWitness trust model
- Create and manage NetWitness users
- Describe the difference between GUI and Service users
- Configure external authentication using Active Directory
- Configure external authentication using SecurID
- Configure data privacy
Version Highlights:
- Learn about the Centralized Content Management in deeper look and learn how to use it while configuring your services from scratch.
- Learn more about the ESA Rules Library vs ESA Rules in the Content Library and how to navigate both.
- Take a deeper look on the ESA Unified Deployments Page.
- ESA Primary and ESA Secondary…
- Learn about the new stand alone Context Hub Service.
- Adding an extra layer of protection by preventing users from reusing their last passwords through the password repetition policy.
- Endpoint agents can now be grouped according to their subnets using CIDR notation.
Course Outline:
Module 1: Configuring NetWitness Logs & Network Hosts
Module 2: Configuring System Settings
Module 3: Configuring NetWitness Services
Module 4: Configuring NetWitness Endpoint
Module 5: User Management
Module 6: External Authentication
Module 7: Configuring Data Privacy
Appendix A: Host Installation
Appendix B: NetWitness Password Best Practices
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