SEC450: SOC Analyst Training – Applied Skills for Cyber Defense Operations

What You’ll Learn

• Security Data Collection – How to make the most of security telemetry including endpoint, network, application, and cloud-based data
• Automation – How to identify the best opportunities to make your team more efficient, utilizing scripts, SOAR, and AI agents
• Efficient Security Process – How to keep your security operations tempo on track with in-depth discussions on what a SOC or security operations team should be doing at every step from security monitoring to detection, triage, analysis, and beyond
• Quality Triage and Analysis – How to quickly identify the separate typical commodity attack alerts from high-risk, high-impact advanced attacks, and how to do careful, thorough, and cognitive-bias free security incident analysis
• False Positive Reduction – Detailed explanations, processes, and techniques to reduce false positives to a minimum
• SOC Tools – Hands-on exercises demonstrating how to collect, organize, and use relevant threat data in a Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP); Principles of success for endpoint security data collection whether you use a SIEM, EDR, NDR, or XDR; how to quickly and accurately triage security incidents; crafting generative AI-powered automation workflows for common SOC activities; and how to best use case management systems to effectively analyze, document, track, and extract critical metrics from your security incidents
• Burnout and Turnover Reduction – Informed with both scientific research and years of personal experience, this class teaches what causes cyber security analyst burnout and how you and your team can avoid it by understanding the causes and factors that lead to burnout. This class will help you build a long-term sustainable cyber defense career so you and your team can deliver the best every day!

Business Takeaways

• Stop missing real threats - Your analysts will master advanced detection techniques that catch sophisticated attacks others miss, including network-based hunting, malware analysis, and structured investigation methods that quickly and accurately identify compromise
• Eliminate alert fatigue - Learn proven detection engineering and tuning strategies that dramatically reduce false positives while maintaining security coverage, allowing your team to focus on actual threats
• Maximize your security technology investment - Get full value from your SIEM, XDR, EDR, and threat intelligence platforms through proper integration, advanced query techniques, and workflow optimization that most organizations never achieve
• Accelerate incident response - Implement structured triage processes, quality investigation frameworks, and AI-powered automation that cut response times and improve accuracy under pressure
• Build sustainable operations - Develop your team's expertise in the advanced skills that prevent burnout, reduce turnover, and create the high-performing SOC analysts every organization struggles to find and retain