About Course
The Certified SOC Analyst (CSA) program is the first step to joining a security operations center (SOC). It is engineered for current and aspiring Tier I and Tier II SOC analysts to achieve proficiency in performing entry level and intermediate-level operations. CSA is a training and credentialing program that helps the candidate acquire trending and in-demand technical skills through instruction by some of the most experienced trainers in the industry. The program focuses on creating new career opportunities through extensive, meticulous knowledge with enhanced level capabilities for dynamically contributing to a SOC team. Being an intense 3-day program, it thoroughly covers the fundamentals of SOC operations, before relaying the knowledge of log management and correlation, SIEM deployment, advanced incident detection, and incident response. Additionally, the candidate will learn to manage various SOC processes and collaborate with CSIRT at the time of need.
Course Objectives:
- Gain Knowledge of SOC processes, procedures, technologies, and workflows.
- Gain basic understanding and in-depth knowledge of security threats, attacks,
vulnerabilities, attacker’s behaviors, cyber kill chain, etc. - Able to recognize attacker tools, tactics, and procedures to identify indicators of
compromise (IOCs) that can be utilized during active and future investigations. - Able to monitor and analyze logs and alerts from a variety of different technologies across
multiple platforms (IDS/IPS, end-point protection, servers and workstations). - Gain knowledge of Centralized Log Management (CLM) process.
- Able to perform Security events and log collection, monitoring, and analysis.
- Gain experience and extensive knowledge of Security Information and Event
Management. - Gain knowledge on administering SIEM solutions (Splunk/AlienVault/OSSIM/ELK).
- Understand the architecture, implementation and fine tuning of SIEM solutions
(Splunk/AlienVault/OSSIM/ELK). - Gain hands-on experience on SIEM use case development process.
- Able to develop threat cases (correlation rules), create reports, etc.
Course Outlines:
Module 1: Security Operations and Management
Module 2: Understanding Cyber Threats, IoCs, and Attack Methodology
Module 3: Incidents, Events, and Logging
Module 4: Incident Detection with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Module 5: Enhanced Incident Detection with Threat Intelligence
Module 6: Incident Response
