EC-COUNCIL CERTIFIED SOC ANALYST (CSA)

24 hours training

Course Overview

This course is the first step to joining the Security Operations Center (SOC). It is designed for first level analysts, current SOC aspirants and aspirants to achieve proficiency in performance of mid-level and mid-level operations. It is a program that helps to acquire technical skills in the direction and in demand through instructions from some of the most experienced trainers in the industry. The program focuses on creating new job opportunities through extensive accurate knowledge with enhanced level capabilities to contribute dynamically to the SOC team. This program also thoroughly covers the basics of SOC operations, before relaying registry management knowledge and linkage, SIEM deployment, advanced accident detection, and incident response.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

– 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.

– Learn use cases that are widely used across the SIEM deployment.

– Plan, organize, and perform threat monitoring and analysis in the enterprise.

– Able to monitor emerging threat patterns and perform security threat analysis.

– Gain hands-on experience in alert triaging process.

– Able to use a service desk ticketing system.

– Able to prepare briefings and reports of analysis methodology and results.

– Gain knowledge of integrating threat intelligence into SIEM for enhanced incident detection and response.

– Able to make use of varied, disparate, constantly changing threat information.

– Gain knowledge of incident response process.

– Gain understanding of SOC and IRT collaboration for better incident response.

Course Prerequisites

Network Administration or Security Domain experience