Group-IB Cyber Education
Leading-edge educational programs on cyber security
25%of cyber incidents are not investigated properly, which leads to repeated network compromise
+40%growth in the number of response requests
in 2019
in 2019
73%of all successful cyberattacks involve social engineering
Group-IB’s approach to learning
We seek to enhance cybersecurity within companies. We tackle this problem by managing and honing skills. We cater for all key user groups, including technical specialists, senior executives, the general public, and kids.
Our comprehensive approach helps us protect companies from threats targeting employees, improve technical staff’s incident response and investigation skills, and ensure a high level of cybersecurity.
Corporate training
Flexible corporate training courses on cybersecurity
Why Group-IB?
Experience in international investigations
Our training courses are based on 1200+ successful investigations worldwide.
Practicing experts
The course instructors are current Group-IB specialists, which translates to the most up-to-date and first-hand information for course participants.
Technical expertise
All courses are led by GCFA-, EnCE- and MCFE-certified experts.
Stimulating practical training
Practical exercises based on real-life cases make up 70% of the course.
Continuously updated program
Course materials are regularly updated with new cases from Group-IB’s experience, which ensures that the course program always reflects the latest trends.
Comprehensive development
Group-IB’s training courses provide a wide range of competencies for creating an effective information security department in any company.
Group-IB’s trainers
Vesta Matveeva
Head of the Investigation Department, Singapore
- Vesta is a cybersecurity expert specializing in computer crime investigation, digital research, digital forensics, and incident response.
- Vesta has investigated international cases involving financially motivated and state-sponsored APT groups such as Buhtrap, Cobalt, Silence, Lazarus, and more. During more than 50 incident response operations, she has investigated hacker techniques that allow cybercriminals to circumvent security measures. Vesta monitors cybercriminal gangs from the perspective of TTPs and attributes their activity.
- She has also designed a range of training courses, computer forensics teaching methods, and cybersecurity tips. Since 2016, Vesta has organized training for banks, industrial enterprises, universities, and law enforcement agencies in various countries, including the UK, the Netherlands, Bahrain, Thailand and Singapore. In 2016-2017, she conducted forensic training for Europol.
Sergey Nikitin
Deputy Head of Computer Forensics Laboratory
- Sergey has been working internationally in digital forensics and incident investigation and response for nine years, including cases that involved Carbanak, Buhtrap, Lurk, Cobalt, Fin7, APT3, MoneyTaker, DarkVishnya, Silence, BlackEnergy, and other cybercriminal groups. He was one of the first experts to respond to global attacks such as NotPetya, BadRabbit, and WannaCry.
- Sergey has been awarded a GCFA certificate and is an ISO/IEC 27001-certified auditor. He is also an official speaker for Group-IB on information security matters, with over 100 media articles, interviews, and TV appearances.
Feixiang He
Senior Threat Intelligence & Attribution Researcher
- Feixiang conducts research on threat intelligence areas including malware behaviors, threat actor TTPs, malicious campaign operations, and attribution theory. He has extensive experience in topics related to the financial sector and Asian threat actors. He regularly presents the latest threat research to security conferences, law enforcement, and financial institutions. His interests included automated intelligence gathering in the wild and information source evaluation.
Shawn Tay
Senior Analyst
- Shawn has been working in the field of cybersecurity for more than 4 years. He currently works in Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence & Attribution department to actively tracks the threat intelligence lifecycle. Shawn’s work focuses on underground forums, and the deep and dark web, where he interacts with threat actors to obtain critical information.
- Shawn has deep interest in automated intelligence gathering and has developed tools to help him in his work. He is an Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), and a GREM- and GCIH-certified specialist.
Igor Mikhailov
Digital Forensics Specialist
- Igor has been working in digital forensics and computer incident investigation for more than 20 years and has conducted over 100 forensic investigations, many of which became sources of key digital evidence.
- Igor is an EnCE-certified specialist, the author of Mobile Forensics Cookbook, and the creator of Cyber Forensicator, an international portal, and Computer Forensics, the biggest online resource of its kind in CIS.
Vitalii Trifonov
Deputy Head of Digital Forensics Lab, Singapore
- Vitalii is a reverse engineer with more than 8 years of experience in the field of malware research. His main interests include proactive protection technologies, incident response, threat hunting, threat intelligence, and malware analysis. Since 2011, he has trained many malware analysts and incident responders and led a team of reverse engineers. The extensive knowledge of APT group TTPs he has obtained during investigations and incident response activities allows him to provide the best services to the largest banks of Russia, Europe, and Asia.
Artyom Artyomov
Senior Digital Forensics Specialist
- With 13 years of international experience in digital forensics, incident investigation, and complex incident response, Artyom has taken part in the arrests of Carberp, Anunak, Buhtrap, Corcow, Cobalt, Moneytaker, Cron, and other criminal groups.
- Artyom was the lead forensic specialist in high-profile investigations into the voting process of The Voice Kids and unauthorized access to Philipp Kirkorov’s personal information. Artyom teaches original digital forensics courses at several top schools and universities, including Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Higher School of Economics, MIREA Russian Technological University, the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, and the Academy of Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Oleg Skulkin
Senior Digital Forensics Specialist
- Oleg has been working in digital forensics, incident investigation, and response to complex cyberattacks worldwide for eight years. He is a regular participant and speaker at cybersecurity conferences, a GCFA-certified specialist, and a MITRE ATT&CK contributor.
- Oleg is the author of more than 100 articles on digital forensics, incident response, threat hunting, and threat information collection and analysis. He is also the co-author of Windows Forensics Cookbook, Practical Mobile Forensics, and Learning Android Forensics.
Anastasia Barinova
Digital Forensics Specialist
- Anastasia conducts digital forensics research, regularly participates in conferences, and develops training courses on digital forensics, incident response, threat hunting, and threat information collection and analysis.
- Anastasia has held more than 60 training sessions in five countries and teaches original courses on digital forensics and fighting cybercrime at the Higher School of Economics, MGIMO, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
Svetlana Ostrovskaya
Digital Forensics Specialist
- Svetlana conducts research studies on Android malware analysis, security assessment of web/mobile applications and smart homes, and other topics.
- She has been published in an IEEE journal, has taken part in preparing and making a video course on the basics of information security for schoolchildren and now Svetlana teaches digital forensics at Innopolis University.
Anatoly Tykushin
Digital Forensics Specialist
- Anatoly conducted a research study on digital forensics, the results of which have been presented at conferences and used in real incident response cases. He teaches digital forensics at Innopolis University and Skolkovo.
- Anatoly regularly participates in complex incident response operations, conducts digital forensic investigations, develops methodologies, and assesses organizations’ incident response readiness.
Roman Rezvukhin
Malware Analyst
- Roman has been working in malware analysis and reverse engineering for more than six years and regularly takes part in complex incident response operations worldwide.
- Roman reverse engineers tools and malware used in complex attacks and develops utilities that automate incident response and malware analysis processes.
FAQs
We conduct our courses and workshops either online or in-person at external venues or on-site.
How are the courses delivered?
We train the following groups:
- General groups (employees from different companies)
- Corporate groups (training for one company’s employees only)
Learn more about the current schedule and dates of upcoming courses at our course web pages or from Group-IB mailings.
Do the courses include practical exercises?
All our courses and workshops are practice-oriented and include real cases and lab sessions. As part of our courses for technical specialists, participants work on case studies independently under the trainer’s supervision.
What skills do you need to successfully complete a course?
Our technical courses require knowledge of information security and IT. Learn more about our requirements on our course web pages.
Workshops for children and wider audiences do not require special knowledge and are suitable for participants with any level of training.
Individual learning approach
Contact us to learn more about Group-IB educational programs