Precourse Checklist
The purpose of our Precourse Material is to make sure that everyone is familiar with the key concepts we will be using throughout your time. A solid grounding in the fundamentals will help you immensely.
Please make sure you have finished the Precourse Material, or can self-attest to their associated learning outcomes, and installed the software on our Installation List prior to the start of your workshop.
Installation List
CrowdStrike workshops are delivered entirely online. No special software is needed beyond general purpose utilities included in your operating system, or those freely available.
This course will access operating systems via SSH. As such you will need access to an SSH client.
PuTTY is a well known and free SSH client for the Windows platform.
OSX and Linux users can use their operating system's native SSH client.
The Falcon Web Console officially supports, and was developed for, the Chrome Web Browser. While other standards-compliant web browsers should work, Chrome is officially tested and supported. Usage of Chrome ensures a standard experience for workshop attendees and is strongly encouraged.
For sessions delivered remotely, Zoom provides video conferencing capabilities. There are standalone clients freely available for most operating systems, and plugins available for popular web browsers.
You're going to be spending a lot of time in a web browser, usually with many tabs open. Modern browsers can be pretty memory-hungry (looking at you, Chrome), so having more RAM tends to make for a smoother experience. If your laptop runs out of RAM it'll start suspending apps/tabs in the background, which isn't ideal.
We recommend your laptop has a minimum of 4GB of RAM. You can't really have too much here though, 8GB+ would probably be ideal.
Precourse Material
FHT 200: Falcon Platform for Administrators
Learning outcome:
General familiarity with CrowdStrike Falcon terminology, modules, and their uses.
Resources:
The FHT 200: Falcon Platform for Administrators content, taught through CrowdStrike University, instructs new and beginning users on the technical fundamentals of the Falcon Platform. The course is appropriate for those who use the Falcon Platform on a day to day basis, and focuses on the installation, configuration and day-today management of the product. This course includes a complete GUI-interface walkthrough.
FHT 201: Intermediate Falcon Platform for Responders
Learning outcome:
General familiarity on incident triage workflows using the CrowdStrike Falcon platform.
Resources:
The FHT 201: Intermediate Falcon Platform for Responders content, taught throughh CrowdStrike University, instructs intermediate responders in the best use of the Falcon Platform for incident triage. The course is appropriate for those who use the Falcon Platform on a day to day basis, focused on triaging and responding to alerts. It includes practical labs for students to develop hands-on skills.
Command Line
Learning outcome:
Be familiar with navigating around both Windows and Linux operating systems without using a Graphical User Interface (GUI).
Resources:
Learn Python The Hard Way has a great Command Line Interface Crash Course.
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