Course Overview
This course is intended for security administrators, content authors/architects, and IT integrators, who build and install custom connectors to provide critical event data feeds to ArcSight ESM or Logger. This can include senior analysts for networks, security systems, enterprise applications and databases
Moyens d'évaluation :
- Quiz pré-formation de vérification des connaissances (si applicable)
- Évaluations formatives pendant la formation, à travers les travaux pratiques réalisés sur les labs à l’issue de chaque module, QCM, mises en situation…
- Complétion par chaque participant d’un questionnaire et/ou questionnaire de positionnement en amont et à l’issue de la formation pour validation de l’acquisition des compétences
Who should attend
Security administrators, content authors/architects, and IT integrators, who build and install custom connectors to provide critical event data feeds to ArcSight ESM or Logger, Senior analysts for networks, security systems, enterprise applications and databases
Prerequisites
To be successful in this course, you should have the following prerequisites or knowledge:
- Successful completion of ArcSight ESM Admin and Analyst course
- Successful completion of ArcSight ESM Advanced Administrator course
- Working knowledge of Regular Expressions
Course Objectives
On completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Install ArcSight Connector software, configure a functional FlexConnector, and test with an ESM Active Channel
- Use the FlexConnector Wizard to create fixed delimited configuration files
- Use the Regex Tester tool to create common and sub-message parsing and token-to-event mapping
- Create a tailored Categorization file for a parent FlexConnector and test its function in an active channel
- Navigate the connector configuration file hierarchy to locate, display and edit
Course Content
Module 1: Introduction to FlexConnector
- Define SmartConnectors and their functions
- Follow device deployment and the event flow processing
- Describe FlexConnectors types
- Install a Connector
Module 2: Using ArcSight Schema
- Gather event requirements prior to developing your FlexConnector
- Normalize and map events
- Differentiate special cases
- List the different schema groups
Module 3: Basic Configuration File and Categorization
- Locate FlexConnector files
- Define the configuration procedure
- Apply the four steps to create a FlexConnector configuration file
- Parser configuration
- Token declaration
- Event mapping
- Severity mapping
- Use the FlexConnector wizard to install a configuration file
- Utilize Categorization to profile an event
- Six criteria are used: Object, Behavior, Outcome, Technique, Device Group, and Significance
Module 4: Regex FlexConnectors
- Install the Regex File Reader FlexConnector
- Create common Regex
- Define SubMessages
- Use the Regex Tester Introduction into the concept of Teams
Module 5: Installing ESM Syslog Connectors with Custom Parsers
- Identify the syslog Connectors
- Describe the syslog FlexConnector components
- Create the syslog FlexConnector configuration file
Module 6: JSON Folder Follower Connector
- Identify the properties of basic JSON objects
- Define Token and Mappings declarations for a JSON Folder Follower FlexConnector
- Perform installation and testing of a JSON Folder Follower FlexConnector in console mode
Module 7: Advanced Topics
- Describe the purposes of multi-line Regex configuration parameters:
- Concatenate lines belonging to a single event
- Identify the start and/or end of each event
- Describe parser linking when two or more FlexConnector types may be needed to parse the same data
- Define and create conditional mapping configurations
- Illustrate the LogFu tool which reads and parses ArcSight logs and generates interactive visual presentations of them
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