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Can You Improve Security by Using Network Scanning, Sniffing, and GPOs?

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What you'll do

In this lab, you will perform network scanning and reconnaissance.

Use nmap to discover computers, identify open ports, determine OS, and discover active services
Perform service discovery and banner grabbing
Use Snort to evaluate network communications
Install Snort
Use Snort as a sniffer
Use Snort as a packet logger
Manage incidents by using incident response tools to improve IT security
Configure Group Policies to enable an account lockout policy for the domain, configure audit policies, and prohibit access to Control Panel, PC Settings and registry editing tools for non-administrators

Note: Once you begin the lab, you will not be able to pause, save, or return to your lab. Please ensure that you have set aside enough time to complete the lab before you start.

⏱ About 60 minutes
Counts towards: CompTIA CySA+ (exam CS0-004)

Roadmaps that use this lab

CompTIA CySA+ (CS0-004) — step 4: Vulnerability management
SOC Analyst — career path — step 6: Analyst certification
Threat Hunter — career path — step 3: The analyst certification
Digital Forensics Analyst — career path — step 5: Incident response, certified
Threat Intelligence Analyst — career path — step 2: SOC grounding, certified