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Overview
The Certified Security Operations Manager (CSOM) from Security Blue Team, built by experienced security leaders across military, finance, telecommunications, healthcare, and managed security industries, CSOM has been designed to provide established or aspiring security managers with the knowledge they need to develop a high-performing security operations team.
Covers the following 4 domains:
- Understanding Modern Security Operations
- Building a Security Operations Centre
- Capability and Function Development
- Metrics, Maturity, and Measuring Success
Prerequisites
Because of the nature of this certification, we only permit certain students to become fully certified, however anyone can take the training course. Only candidates with 2 years of security operations or related experience will be permitted to take the exams.
WHO IS THE COURSE FOR?
CSOM is aimed at security professionals with 2+ years experience in security operations or a similar discipline. Roles that we believe would benefit from this course include:
- Senior Security Analysts
- Security Managers
- SOC Managers
- Heads of Security Operations
- Directors of Security Operations
- Consultants
Objectives
CSOM is designed to forge technical managers that already have experience and exposure to security operations. CSOM will develop you in both management principles and technical skills. Below are some examples of the skills and experience you will gain.
- Understand modern security operations across on-premise and cloud environments.
- Conduct static digital forensics and incident response to collect key artifacts for investigations.
- Understand and perform threat modelling and detection engineering to deploy a SIEM with relevant rules and alerting functionality.
- Understand the different sub-teams a security operations team could contain, and how each of them operates, and what value they bring to the organization.
- Demonstrate how to continuously assess the team to demonstrate increasing maturity and business offerings.
And much more!
Outline
Introduction
- Welcome to CSOM
Modern Security Operations
- 2. Domain Introduction
- 3. Business Objectives, Legal Enablers, and Considerations
- 4. Security Operations Teams
- 5. Operational Environments
- 6. Cyber Threat Hunting
Building a Security Operations Centre
- 7. Domain Introduction
- 8. Threat Modelling
- 9. Building Your Team
- 10. SIEM & Detection Engineering
- 11. Case Management
- 12. Other Tooling & Administration
- 13. Processes and Policies
Capability Development
- 14. Domain Introduction
- 15. Incident Response
- 16. Threat Intelligence
- 17. Vulnerability Management
- 18. Digital Forensics
- 19. Malware Analysis
- 20. Threat Hunting
Metrics, Maturity, and Measuring Success
- 21. Domain Introduction
- 22. SOC Maturity Models
- 23. Operationalizing MITRE ATT&CK
- 24. Purple Team Engagements
- 25. Deception and Active Defence
- 26. Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response
- 27. Reporting and Metrics
- 28. Security Research and Presentation
- 29. Retaining Talent
- 30. Additional Activities
CSOM Exam Preparation
- 31. Theory Exam Format
- 32. Practical Exam Format
- 33. Preparation Tips
Content subject to change prior to release.
LABS:
- Deploying Sigma Rules
- Case Management
- Endpoint Detection & Response
- Threat Intelligence in Practice (MISP)
- Vulnerability Management in Practice (OpenVAS)
- Digital Forensics in Practice (Autopsy)
- Cyber Deception
- Metrics Dashboarding, Case Management
- Practice Exam Lab
Approx 250 lessons, 15 labs
*To be eligible to take the CSOM exam, students must provide sufficient evidence of at least two years full-time experience working in a defensive cybersecurity role. Students are able to take and go through the course with any level of experience, however to become CSOM certified, this requirement must be met.
TWO PART EXAM
PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT: The practical exam element of CSOM requires you to participate in a security incident investigation. The practical exam has been constructed to appropriately test you on the technical elements covered in the course. There is nothing new in the exam that has not been covered, and no additional external preparation is required to pass.
You will have up to 4 hours to answer twenty questions based on the exam scenario. All answers will be submitted when you manually finish your exam or the 4-hour duration ends. You will receive a pass/fail status, a grade out of 100, and feedback immediately.
If you do not meet the pass requirement of 70% or higher, you must use your free resit voucher to attempt the exam again. If you pass, you cannot retake the exam.
THEORY ASSESSMENT: The theory exam element of CSOM places you as a Security Operations Manager joining a company, Energy Blade Industries, that already has an existing security operations team.
You will complete three tasks and fill out a report template with the information requested. When starting the exam you will download a ZIP archive that contains the files you need to review, alongside using online resources.
We expect the exam to take a student approximately 2-3 hours. However, this can vary depending on experience and how well you have studied the course material. The exam time limit is 24 hours, meaning you must submit a valid report within this timeframe. Please note this does not mean this exam will take 24 hours.
What's included
- Exam included
- Online exam voucher
Special Notices
QA is proud to be the UK partner for Security Blue Team.
You must activate your Security Blue Team account within 31 days of on-boarding, and take your exam within 12 months of activation.
This product contains approximately 40 hours of self paced learning, you will have access to the product for 6 months.
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