Operation Akela is a defensive range aimed at users with a beginner to intermediate knowledge level of incident response, threat hunting, and defensive tools.
Your investigation begins when a user alerts the SOC team to some suspicious activity they’ve identified on their machine. When they opened a document received via an email, they saw a flash of a black application with white text on their screen before it closed itself and the document opened.
It’s believed that the suspicious file discovered was in fact malicious. You’ve been tasked to investigate it.
With this information, you will examine and analyze the incident to determine what has happened.
This exercise provides:
How it works:
Event details:
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET
Date: 16 - 18 September 2025
How to register:
This exercise runs on the Immersive Labs platform and does not have any specific device requirements.
Your day will begin with a 9 am ET briefing on Monday from FS-ISAC, the day prior to your range, to set up the exercise. From there, you will break off to begin the cyber range exercise and can plan to complete by 5 pm ET Thursday.
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