Event: Trend Micro: Capture The Flag Event Type: Interactive Seminar Organiser: Trend Micro (https://www.trendmicro.com) Date: Wednesday 16th October 2019 Location: Trend Micro Office, Paddington, London
Trend Micro: Capture The Flag was another great event put on by Trend Micro for Cyber Security engineers. The idea behind this seminar was to interactively teach engineers about their new Trend EDR tool. Explaining EDR in detail is it’s own article and is certainly one I will add to this site however in brief EDR stands for Endpoint Detection and Response. Trend Micro’s EDR tool is designed to work on end-user devices such as desktops and laptops. The tool allows a Cyber Security engineer to extensively investigate threats by detailing the actions that have occurred on a device. Information on the threat provided by the EDR tool can include but not be limited to; point of entry, lateral movement, commands initiated, files created, exit point. This information is extremely useful when it comes to fully understand a threat and investigating what other machines may have been contaminated.
This event consisted of 9 teams competing through a list of questions that were designed to make you use the EDR tool to get the answers. The teams consisted of 2 or 3 people and were made up of work colleagues that had attended the event together. Some of these in attendance already had the EDR tool within their workplace and were experienced in using it whilst others had never used the tool before. Unfortunately, my work colleague had a last minute job interview and was unable to attend with me.
The questions ranged from asking a simple question making sure you could navigate and understand the EDR web console correctly right up to asking you to perform analysis on endpoints and detailing the breach from start to finish. It was a great way to understand EDR and a better way to learn how to use it than just staring at a presenter and making notes.
As always Trend Micro are very hospitable at their events and kindly ordered Dominos for lunch, provided drinks throughout the day and beers at the end of the event. The atmosphere was great, the Trend Micro staff were as friendly and helpful as always and the professional competitiveness between the teams created a great experience.
I don’t want to share too much information on the event and ruin the experience for anybody who is fortunate enough to attend but if you are looking to utilise Trend Micro’s EDR tool then I highly recommend attending their “Capture The Flag” event.