Hands-on playbook · 60 min
CrowdStrike Falcon Playbook: Safe Sensor Rollout, Content Rings, CQL Hunting and Automated Response
A hands-on Falcon deep dive: install and verify the Linux and Kubernetes sensor with least-privilege API clients, design content and sensor update rings after the July 2024 outage, hunt with CrowdStrike Query Language, and automate alerts, containment and Real Time Response through the API.
- Install and verify the Linux sensor, including reduced functionality mode checks
- Deploy the Kubernetes DaemonSet sensor with secrets and a pinned image digest
- Design content update rings with delays as code, the control added after July 2024
- Hunt in Next-Gen SIEM with tested CrowdStrike Query Language patterns
- Automate alerts, host containment and file collection through the API
- Split API clients by job so no automation holds more power than it needs
- Run a 90-day rollout that a change board would approve
- 01Under the hood
- 02Hands-on lab
- 03Recipes
- 04Rollout runbook
- 05Troubleshooting
- 06Interview drill
- 07Sources
Every worked answer in all 17 topics, every lesson in every course, the full concept curriculum, hands-on tool playbooks, the complete practice-test bank, and the downloadable security field guides.
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