EC-Council Certified SOC Analyst (incl. Exam Voucher)

Introduction

EC Council’s Certified SOC Analyst (CSA) program is the first step to joining a security operations centre (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.

The lab-intensive CSA program emphasizes the holistic approach to deliver elementary as well as advanced knowledge of how to identify and validate intrusion attempts. Through this, the candidate will learn to use SIEM solutions and predictive capabilities using threat intelligence. The program 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.

Audience profile

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

Pre-requisites

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course is as follows:

• 1 year of work experience in the Network Admin/ Security domain

Course objectives

Upon completing this course, the learner will have the following knowledge and skills:

• Gain Knowledge of SOC processes, procedures, technologies, and workflows.
• Gain basic understanding and in-depth knowledge of security threats, attacks, vulnerabilities, attacker’s behaviours, and cyber kill chain, etc.
• Ability to recognize attacker tools, tactics, and procedures to identify indicators of compromise (IOCs) that can be utilized during active and future investigations.
• Ability to monitor and analyse 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.
• Ability 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
• Ability to develop threat cases (correlation rules), create reports, etc
• Learn use cases that are widely used across the SIEM deployment
• Plan, organise, and perform threat monitoring and analysis in the enterprise
• Ability to monitor emerging threat patterns and perform security threat analysis
• Gain hands-on experience in alert triaging process
• Ability to escalate incidents to appropriate teams for additional assistance
• Ability to use a Service Desk ticketing system
• Ability to prepare briefings and reports of analysis methodology and results
• Gain knowledge of integrating threat intelligence into SIEM for enhanced incident detection and response
• Ability 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