CSA Certified SOC Analyst

Module 1: Security Operations and Management

CERTIFIED SOC ANALYST (CSA) Certification Training Course Objectives

• Gain Knowledge of SOC processes, procedures, technologies, and workflows.
• Gain a basic understanding and in-depth knowledge of security threats, attacks, vulnerabilities, attacker’s behaviors, cyber killchain, 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 the 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 of 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 in 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 the alert triaging process.
• Able to escalate incidents to appropriate teams for additional assistance.
• 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 understating of SOC and IRT collaboration for better incident response.

• SOC Analysts (Tier I and Tier II)
• Network and Security Administrators, Network and Security Engineers, Network Defense Analyst, Network Defense Technicians, Network Security Specialist, Network Security Operator, and any security professional handling network security operations
• Cybersecurity Analyst
• Entry-level cybersecurity professionals
• Anyone who wants to become a SOC Analyst.