Security Operations Center

SOC Training & Resources

SANS offers training certification and resources for SIEM, Elastic Stack, and modern detection techniques to help equip Blue Teamers with the right knowledge and know-how that is needed to safeguard their organizations and drive security operations with actionable intelligence.

General Training Courses

Cyber Defense

SEC450: Blue Team Fundamentals: Security Operations and Analysis

SEC450 provides students with technical knowledge and key concepts essential for security operation center (SOC) analysts and new cyber defense team members. By providing a detailed explanation of the mission and mindset of a modern cyber defense operation, this course will jumpstart and empower...

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Cyber Defense

SEC511: Continuous Monitoring and Security Operations

This course assesses the current state of security architecture and continuous monitoring, and provides a new approach to security architecture that can be easily understood and defended. When students finish, they have a list of action items in hand for making their organization one of the most...

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Security Management, Legal, and Audit

MGT551: Building and Leading Security Operations Centers

Information technology is so tightly woven into the fabric of modern business that cyber risk has become business risk. SOC teams are facing more pressure than ever before to help manage this risk by identifying and responding to threats across a diverse set of infrastructures, business processes,...

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Focused Specialty Courses

Cyber Defense

SEC503: Intrusion Detection In-Depth

SEC503: Intrusion Detection In-Depth delivers the technical knowledge, insight, and hands-on training you need to defend your network with confidence. You will learn about the underlying theory of TCP/IP and the most used application protocols, such as HTTP, so that you can intelligently examine...

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Cyber Defense

SEC555: SIEM with Tactical Analytics

Many organizations have logging capabilities but lack the people and processes to analyze them. In addition, logging systems collect vast amounts of data from a variety of data sources which require an understanding of the sources for proper analysis. This class is designed to provide training,...

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Cyber Defense

SEC586: Blue Team Operations: Defensive PowerShell

Are you a Blue Teamer who has been asked to do more with less? Do you wish you could detect and respond at the same pace as your adversaries who are breaking into and moving within the network? SEC586: Blue Team Operations: Defensive PowerShell teaches deep automation and defensive capabilities...

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August 10, 2021

Guide to Security Operations

This guide is a collection of some of the most useful information and models for those working in cybersecurity operations centers, as well as pointers to some incredibly powerful free tools, book references, and more to help build your team, skills, and defensive capabilities.

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Reviews

Read what others have to say about SANS courses.

The immediate value of the course material is unlike any course or training I've received. A++.

David Savercool

- Dart Container

SEC555 has covered major issues we've encountered.

Troy Barnhart

- Regional Health

Thank you for a very informative week! SEC555 has totally changed what I think about SIEM!

Ben Curry

- F&M Bank

This course is as practical and real-world as it gets. SEC555 provides numerous quick wins and really stimulates thinking about relative value of numerous ways to defend your organization.

Mikhale Vitebskiy

- Lexington Partners

SEC555 justifies what we have been doing in my company but gives a ton of new ideas to implement for better detection of bad stuff. It's a class I would highly recommend to the rest of my team!

Choy Kok Ming

- ExxonMobil

Instant value! Sent my team 5 improvement action items driven by todays content. Plus, we now have a plan to implement network log collection that will likely save me more than $250k in expenses for our current budget cycle.

Rob Conn

- EchoStar

I came to SEC555 to be introduced to high impact investigative techniques that will net the greatest return on investment for my SOC, and SANS delivered.

Conrad Bovell

- CMS