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<tr class="category"><td colspan="5">🛡️ Defense & Blue Team</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td><a href="#">Blue Team Handbook</a></td><td>Don Murdoch</td><td>Incident response</td><td>Intermediate</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td><a href="#">Practical Malware Analysis</a></td><td>Sikorski & Honig</td><td>Malware reversing</td><td>Advanced</td></tr> </tbody> </table>

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