EC-Council Certified SOC Analyst

The CSA program require the candidate to have one year of work experience in the Network Admin/Security domain.

• Gain Knowledge of SOC processes, procedures, technologies, and workflows.
• Gain basic understanding and in-depth knowledge of security threats, attacks, vulnerabilities, attacker’s behaviors, cyber kill chain, etc.
• Able to recognise attacker tools, tactics, and procedures to identify indicators of compromise (IOCs) that can be utilised during active and future investigations.
• Able 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 Centralised 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 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.
• Able 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.
• Able to monitor emerging threat patterns and perform security threat analysis.
• Gain hands-on experience in alert triaging process.
• Able to escalate incidents to appropriate teams for additional assistance.
• 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.

1. Security Operations and Management

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

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

3. Incidents, Events, and Logging Understand the Fundamentals of Incidents, Events, and Logging

• Explain the Concepts of Local Logging
• Explain the Concepts of Centralised Logging

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

5. Enhanced Incident Detection with Threat Intelligence

• Learn Fundamental Concepts on Threat Intelligence 8%
• 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

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

Exam Information

The CSA exam is taken post course. Delegates will recieve an exam voucher as part of the course. The exam is designed to test and validate a candidate’s comprehensive understanding of the jobs tasks required as a SOC analyst. Thereby validating their comprehensive understanding of a complete SOC workflow.

• Exam Title Certified SOC Analyst
• Number of Questions 100
• Duration 3 hours
• Test Format Multiple Choice
• Passing Score 70%