What you'll learn

• Understand how to prepare for, detect, and respond to cyber security incidents

• Be able to articulate the primary goals of a security operations center (SOC) and the key enablers of an effective SOC

• Be familiar with typical on the job activities of a SOC analyst on daily basis. This can be referred to as a day in the life of a SOC analyst.

• Be able to recall and describe each of the five functions of the NIST cybersecurity framework

• Understand the common sources of cyber security events

• Understand cyber security alerts, use cases and the benefits of using scheduled actionable reports to plug alerting gap

• Understand and be able to articulate the functions of tier 1, 2 and 3 SOC analysts

• Understand different phases of incident response

• Be very familiar with real world cyber security incident scenarios and appropriate response actions

• Be able to categorize various cyber security vendors in accordance with the security domains addressed by their specific products