EC-Council Certified SOC Analyst (CSA)

EC-Council Certified SOC Analyst (CSA)

The CSA exam is designed to test and validate a candidate’s comprehensive understanding of the job tasks required as a SOC analyst. Thereby, validating their comprehensive understanding of a complete SOC workflow.

Learning Objectives of CSA

• Gain Knowledge of SOC processes, procedures, technologies, and workflows.

• Gain a basic understanding and in-depth knowledge of security threats, attacks, vulnerabilities, attacker’s behaviors, cyber killchain, etc.

• Able to recognize attacker tools, tactics, and procedures to identify indicators of compromise (IOCs) that can be utilized during active and future investigations.

• Able to monitor and analyze logs and alerts from a variety of different technologies across multiple platforms (IDS/IPS, end-point protection, servers, and workstations).

• Gain knowledge of the Centralized 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 of 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 in 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, organize, 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 the alert triaging process.

• Able to escalate incidents to appropriate teams for additional assistance.

• Able to use a Service Desk ticketing system.

• 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.

Practice exams to obtain the EC-Council SOC Analyst (CSA) certification (120 QUESTIONS!)

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What you will learn

• Cybersecurity Fundamentals for SOC Analysts

Rating: 4.1

Level: All Levels

Duration: 120 questions

Instructor: Daniel Rodriguez