CSA Certified SOC Analyst Certification Course

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The Certified SOC Analyst (CSA) Training Course 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 entrylevel and intermediate-level operations.
Certified SOC Analyst (CSA) Training Course 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 Certified SOC Analyst (CSA) Training Course 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 Course, 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.
As the security landscape is expanding, a SOC team offers high-quality IT-security services to detect potential cyber threats/attacks actively and quickly respond to security incidents. Organizations need skilled SOC Analysts who can serve as the front-line defenders, warning other professionals of emerging and present cyber threats.
The lab-intensive SOC Analyst training course emphasizes the holistic approach to deliver elementary as well as advanced knowledge of how to identify and validate intrusion attempts.
Through this SOC Analyst training course , the candidate will learn to use SIEM solutions and predictive capabilities using threat intelligence.
The SOC Analyst training course also introduces the practical aspect of SIEM using advanced and the most frequently used tools.
The candidate will learn to perform enhanced threat detection using the predictive capabilities of Threat Intelligence.

Course Outline

Module 1: Security Operations and Management

Understand the SOC Fundamentals
Discuss the Components of SOC: People, Processes and Technology
Understand the Implementation of SOC

Module 2: Understanding Cyber Threats, IoCs, and Attack Methodology

Describe the term Cyber Threats and Attacks
Understand the Network Level Attacks
Understand the Host Level Attacks
Understand the Application Level Attacks
Understand the Indicators of Compromise (IoCs)
Discuss the Attacker’s Hacking Methodology

Module 3: Incidents, Events, and Logging U

Understand the Fundamentals of Incidents, Events, and Logging
Explain the Concepts of Local Logging
Explain the Concepts of Centralized Logging

Module 4: Incident Detection with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Understand the Basic Concepts of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Discuss the Different SIEM Solutions
Understand the SIEM Deployment
Learn Different Use Case Examples for Application Level Incident Detection
Learn Different Use Case Examples for Insider Incident Detection
Learn Different Use Case Examples for Network Level Incident Detection
Learn Different Use Case Examples for Host Level Incident Detection
Learn Different Use Case Examples for Compliance
Understand the Concept of Handling Alert Triaging and Analysis

Module 5: Enhanced Incident Detection with Threat Intelligence

Learn Fundamental Concepts on Threat Intelligence
Learn Different Types of Threat Intelligence
Understand How Threat Intelligence Strategy is Developed
Learn Different Threat Intelligence Sources from which Intelligence can be Obtained
Learn Different Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP)
Understand the Need of Threat Intelligence-driven SOC

Module 6: Incident Response

Understand the Fundamental Concepts of Incident Response
Learn Various Phases in Incident Response Process
Learn How to Respond to Network Security Incidents
Learn How to Respond to Application Security Incidents
Learn How to Respond to Email Security Incidents
Learn How to Respond to Insider Incidents
Learn How to Respond to Malware Incidents

What you will learn

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.

Audience profile

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.