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This Career Path is for a Security Operations Center Analyst (SOC Analyst). This particular Career Path covers a more intermediate-level SOC role. As a SOC Analyst, your primary duty is to ensure that the organization’s digital assets are secure and protected from unauthorized access. That means that you are responsible for protecting both online and on-premise infrastructures, monitoring data to identify suspicious activity, and identifying and mitigating risks before there is a breach. In the event that a breach does occur, a SOC analyst will be on the front line, working to counter the attack. This career path is aligned to the Cyber Defense Incident Responder NICE/NIST Work Role.
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Overview
What Are Some SOC Analyst Roles and Responsibilities?
In general, the role of the SOC analyst is to plan, monitor, and implement security measures to protect an organization’s computer systems, networks, and data. To do this, SOC analysts must stay up-to-date on the most current intelligence, including hackers’ practices and tactics, to anticipate and prevent security threats and breaches.
In addition to the above, as an SOC analyst, you will likely be required to:
What Are Some SOC Analyst Job Requirements?
Each organization that is hiring an SOC analyst will have its own degree and work experience requirements for candidates. However, it’s most common for organizations to require that SOC analyst candidates have a bachelor’s degree in computer science or another relevant field, as well as at least one year of IT work experience.
Some of the other common requirements for SOC analyst positions are:
Some of the common technical knowledge requirements include:
What is a Typical SOC Analyst Job Description?
As a security operations center analyst your primary duty is to ensure that the organization’s digital assets are secure and protected from unauthorized access. That means that you are responsible for protecting both online and on-premise infrastructures, monitoring metrics and data to identify suspicious activity, and identifying and mitigating risks before there is a breach. In the event that a breach does occur, an SOC analyst will be on the front line, working to counter the attack.
Additionally, SOC analysts must generate reporting for managers and IT administrators to evaluate the effectiveness of current security protocols. Then you will be responsible for making any necessary modifications to establish a more secure network. You may be required to create training programs and curriculum to educate the organization’s employees and network users on proper security policies and procedures.
Candidates for the SOC analyst position must have analytical skills, communication skills, and the desire to stay up-to-date on the latest technology. It’s also important that you are prepared to sift through huge amounts of information to identify threats or other security issues, and to be flexible and available at any time – because threats and attacks can happen at any time, day or night.
A Day in the Life of an SOC Analyst
As an SOC analyst, you will likely find that no two days are alike in a security operations center – hackers and other adversaries don’t follow a specific schedule, and how much time you have to spend on an individual incident can depend on many factors. You may be able to circumvent an attack quickly in some cases, while others much more time and attention.
While you will be required to ascertain the weaknesses of hardware, software, and network infrastructure and establish ways to protect it daily, the nature of information security means that each day may bring different situations, tasks, and challenges. When there is a threat or an attack, your team will likely work nonstop to expose the attack, shut down access to your systems, resolve the issue, work to prevent the same type of attack from happening in the future, and document and communicate appropriate information to management or clients.
SOC analysts may have to be willing to work at odd hours, outside of the normal workday, to perform the necessary incident response to protect the digital assets of the organization. You can rest assured that as an SOC analyst, you will not experience boredom or repetition in your daily duties.
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What Will I Learn?
Foundations
Focused on the core IT competencies that cybersecurity professionals need to succeed in any career path.
Defensive Security
Focused on trying to find the bad guys. Topics such as threat intelligence, threat hunting, network monitoring, incident response. Defensive security is a reactive measure taken once a vulnerability is found through prevention, detection, and response.
Engineering and Operations
Focused on building and operating information systems.
Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Focused on the core IT competencies that cybersecurity professionals need to succeed in any career path.
Leadership and Management
Focused on program design and oversight. Covers project and program management.
Offensive Security
Focused on validating security controls by trying to break them (i.e. penetration testing or ethical hacking). Topics such as Kali Linux, metasploit, scanning, and privilege escalation. Offensive security seeks out the problem or vulnerability through ethical hacking and finds a solution to disable the operation.
Offensive Security
Focused on the core IT competencies that cybersecurity professionals need to succeed in any career path.
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Course Outline
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NMAP
The network mapper (NMAP) is one of the highest quality and powerful free network utilities in the cybersecurity professional's arsenal. This NMAP course offers the NMAP skills and commands needed to become a better network administrator, incident responder, or penetration tester. Learn NMAP fundamentals and even create personal hands-on labs.
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Application of the MITRE ATT&CK Framework
This MITRE ATT&CK training is designed to teach students how to apply the matrix to help mitigate current threats. Students will move through the 12 core areas of the framework to develop a thorough understanding of various access ATT&CK vectors.
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Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence
Do you want to take your cyber threat intelligence skills to the next level so you can better protect your organization? Learn to leverage existing data sources, reduce false positives, and use models like the Cyber Kill Chain, and the MITRE ATT&CK framework to structure your analysis in this Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence course.
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26
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Incident Response and Advanced Forensics
Need some incident response training on your path to becoming a network engineer or cyber defense analyst? This course will introduce you to incident response and prepare you to conduct forensic collections. Learn how to develop protection plans, dive into insider and malware threats, and commence incident recovery.
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Incident Response Recovery
Incident Response Recovery covers the actual recovery process from an incident that was identified and managed. It goes over the proper documentation necessary after the incident is handled, the legal concerns associated with the incident, and the lessons learned.
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Free
17
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Computer Hacking and Forensics
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LAB
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CEUS
Perform a Network Vulnerability Assessment Using Nmap
The Network Vulnerability Assessment Using Nmap Advanced IT pro Challenge from Learn on Demand challenges students to perform a variety of network vulnerability scans in Ubuntu against hosts and machines. This requires the installation of Nmap, Apache2 packages, and configuring the Linux Uncomplicated Firewall(ufw) to block ICMP ping requests.
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CEUS
Identify Non-Secure Network Traffic
In this IT Pro Challenge virtual lab, you will get hands-on experience using Wireshark to sniff network traffic and detect non-secure protocols being used in the environment. You will investigate evidence of secured versus non-secure traffic. The skills you will learn in this lab are essential for network security analysts and penetration testers.
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