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LE No. 07: Gerald Auger Simply Cyber Firesides, Darkweb & APT Case Study, Something Big Coming...

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Overview

Level Effect's December 31st newsletter announces several upcoming events and course developments for early 2025.

Featured Events

Simply Cyber Firesides Appearance

Co-Founder Anthony Bendas will appear on Gerald Auger's livestream January 2nd at 4:30PM EST. The discussion will cover "network security, cyber threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and pentesting" alongside Bendas's background in security program design.

Darkweb & APT Case Study Stream

Scheduled for January 10th, instructor Doug Kaluhiokalani will host a session demonstrating Tor browser navigation and darkweb reconnaissance techniques. The session emphasizes using "a dummy machine and not your main or work computer" while exploring hacker forums to understand adversarial tactics and develop defensive countermeasures.

Course Updates

DE&TH Expansion

Starting January 14th, the Detection & Threat Hunting course receives Windows-focused content with a new Discord bot-driven detection workflow replacing ticket-based support. Future expansion plans include DE200 covering cloud and SaaS environments.

DFIR Program Launch

Level Effect announces opening a Digital Forensics and Incident Response category in 2025, positioned as "CDA2" level material emphasizing endpoint investigation and forensics with a new instructor announcement pending.

Teaser

The newsletter cryptically references "a very collaborative event" planned for 2025 with "plenty of notice" for community attendance.

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