SOC Analyst: Beginner to Job Ready
Build foundational SOC skills through network and endpoint log analysis, SIEM workflows, alert triage, threat hunting, and incident investigation. Finish with an evidence-based investigation report.
Intensive, practice-led cybersecurity education across SOC Analysis, Ethical Hacking, Azure Cloud Security, and Digital Forensics. Build skills by doing real technical work in authorized environments.
Simulated demonstration — illustrative technical workflow from course tools (Wazuh, Nmap, Sentinel, Volatility). Not connected to live production infrastructure.
Cybersecurity is not memorizing multiple-choice answers. We teach the analytical mental models, triage disciplines, and investigative workflows required in operational roles.
Master TCP/IP networking, packet inspection, Linux command line, and Windows administrative architecture before touching specialised tooling.
Understand adversary motives, threat modeling, attack trees, and defence-in-depth principles mapped directly to the MITRE ATT&CK matrix.
Execute hands-on exercises in isolated training environments using standard tools: Wazuh SIEM, Burp Suite, Azure Sentinel, and Autopsy.
Triage real alerts, reconstruct adversary breach timelines, analyse malware artifacts, and distinguish genuine attacks from false positives.
Document your findings in executive-ready incident summaries, risk matrices, and technical remediation reports for your professional portfolio.
Choose the cybersecurity specialty aligned with the work you want to do. Every course features structured weekly progression and objective grading.
Build foundational SOC skills through network and endpoint log analysis, SIEM workflows, alert triage, threat hunting, and incident investigation. Finish with an evidence-based investigation report.
Learn a structured penetration-testing workflow from scoping and reconnaissance through web application testing, Active Directory assessment, controlled exploitation, and executive reporting.
Configure Microsoft Entra ID, Azure RBAC, PIM, Conditional Access, Network Security Groups, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and cloud security monitoring with Microsoft Sentinel and KQL.
Practice evidence integrity, disk and file-system analysis, Windows and Linux artifact review, memory forensics with Volatility 3, network forensics, and forensic timeline reconstruction.
Security skills must be built through active technical repetition, not passive video observation. We structure learning around intentionally vulnerable systems and real security tools.
Analyse real Windows Event Logs (4624, 4625, 4688), Linux authentication records, and Sysmon process creation telemetry rather than synthetic quiz questions.
Practice vulnerability assessment against deliberately vulnerable applications (OWASP Juice Shop, DVWA) in isolated local virtual environments (VirtualBox / VMware / UTM).
Audit Azure security configurations using learner subscriptions or prepared sample telemetry datasets, configure Key Vault access policies, segment virtual networks, and practice KQL queries in Log Analytics.
Authorized Testing Policy: All technical offensive and investigative activities are strictly confined to authorized training environments, sample evidence sets, or systems owned by the learner. The academy does not conduct or permit unauthorized testing of public, third-party, or client systems.
Transparent, comprehensive module breakdowns extracted directly from our official academic course specifications.
Duration: 8 Weeks · 64 Guided Hours · Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Proposed Minimum Standard (Awaiting Client Confirmation): 70% overall minimum score, including satisfactory completion of the final investigation capstone. Final grading policy to be confirmed prior to cohort enrolment.
SOC Tier 1/2/3 roles, CIA triad, defence-in-depth, threat intelligence basics, and MITRE ATT&CK framework mapping.
OSI model, TCP/IP protocol suite, DNS, HTTP/S, packet headers, port states, and network anomaly detection.
Windows Event Logs, Event IDs (4624, 4625, 4688, 7045), Sysmon configuration, Linux bash navigation, and auth.log analysis.
Security Information and Event Management architecture, agent-manager communication, log collectors, and rule tuning.
Search Processing Language (SPL), search operators, statistical aggregations, field extraction, and correlation searches.
Alert triage methodology, true positive vs. false positive analysis, threat scoping, and indicator of compromise (IOC) lookups.
NIST/SANS incident response lifecycle: Preparation, Detection, Containment, Eradication, Recovery, and Lessons Learned.
Comprehensive incident investigation across multi-host telemetry. Reconstruct timeline, document impact, and defend findings.
Duration: 10 Weeks · 80 Guided Hours · Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Proposed Minimum Standard (Awaiting Client Confirmation): 70% overall minimum score, including submission of the final capstone assessment. All testing strictly confined to authorized environments.
Rules of engagement, legal scoping, assessment lifecycle, methodologies (PTES, OWASP), and authorization contracts.
Kali Linux toolset, bash automation, routing, packet craft, netcat, and network service inspection.
Passive and active OSINT, WHOIS, DNS enumeration, subdomain discovery (Amass/Subfinder within scope), and certificate transparency.
Port scanning with Nmap (SYN, TCP, UDP), service banner grabbing, vulnerability scanners (Nessus/OpenVAS), and CVSS scoring.
OWASP Top 10 web vulnerabilities, HTTP requests/responses, cookie parameters, sessions, and Burp Suite intercepting proxy setup.
SQL Injection (SQLi), Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR), and broken authentication testing.
Metasploit framework in isolated training labs, payload selection, listener configuration, reverse shells, and service exploitation.
Privilege escalation concepts, Active Directory architecture, Kerberos authentication, domain enumeration, and internal lateral movement theory.
Technical report writing: Executive summary, risk rating methodology (CVSS v3.1), reproduction steps, and defence recommendations.
Conduct an end-to-end authorized penetration test of a complex multi-tier network and vulnerable web application.
Duration: 10 Weeks · 80 Guided Hours · Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Proposed Minimum Standard (Awaiting Client Confirmation): 70% overall minimum score, including the cloud security capstone. Exercises supported through learner subscriptions or prepared sample telemetry datasets.
Shared responsibility model, Azure subscriptions, resource groups, regions, and cloud security architecture.
Users, groups, enterprise applications, service principals, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and password protection.
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), custom roles, Privileged Identity Management (PIM) just-in-time access, and Conditional Access policies.
Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Network Security Groups (NSGs), Azure Firewall, Private Link, and Application Gateway / WAF.
Virtual Machine disk encryption, Azure Key Vault secret management, Storage Service Encryption, Shared Access Signatures (SAS), and access policies.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Secure Score improvement, CSPM regulatory benchmarks (CIS, NIST), and automated remediation.
Log Analytics workspaces, Sentinel data connectors, Kusto Query Language (KQL), detection rules, and incident management.
Terraform / Bicep scanning with Checkov / Trivy, GitHub Actions security workflows, and secret scanning in CI/CD pipelines.
Investigating compromised cloud credentials, anomalous API calls, VM tampering, and automated cloud incident response playbooks.
Comprehensive security posture review and hardening of an enterprise multi-tier Azure cloud workload.
Duration: 10 Weeks · 80 Guided Hours · Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Proposed Minimum Standard (Awaiting Client Confirmation): 70% overall minimum score, including submission of the final forensic capstone report. Evidence handled lawfully within supplied scope.
Forensic principles, chain of custody, legal admissibility, digital evidence order of volatility, and incident lifecycle.
Order of volatility, evidence preservation, chain of custody, forensic imaging concepts, SHA-256 integrity verification, and safe evidence handling.
NTFS architecture, Master File Table ($MFT), $LogFile, FAT/ext4 file systems, deleted file recovery, and file carving.
Registry hives, UserAssist, Shimcache, Amcache, Prefetch (.pf) program execution analysis, Shellbags, and USB device tracking.
Linux artifact triage: wtmp, btmp, utmp, shell history files (.bash_history), cron persistence, systemd services, and SSH key tampering.
Memory acquisition, Volatility 3 framework, process trees (pslist, pstree), injected code detection (malfind), and network socket inspection in RAM.
Full packet captures (PCAP), Wireshark deep inspection, TLS handshake analysis, C2 beacon timing, and data exfiltration streams.
Live endpoint response, enterprise scoping, containment decisions (network isolation, account revocation), and threat eradication.
Event normalization, timeline construction, cross-artifact correlation across disk, memory, and network records, and structured forensic reporting.
Investigate a simulated enterprise incident using disk images, memory captures, authentication records, and incident response notes.
Training is one part of a career journey. We are designing options to pair practical technical coursework with feedback, capstone review, and job-search preparation.
Each course culminates in a 40% capstone project. Learners produce a comprehensive investigation or security assessment report in controlled training scenarios to discuss in interviews.
Practice documenting findings clearly, structuring technical evidence, and writing actionable remediation guidance that demonstrates operational competence.
Proposed candidate support being designed to include role mapping, resume review concepts, technical interview preparation, and referral opportunities where suitable and available.
Employment Outcome Notice: Career support options are intended to help candidates present their work effectively. Hiring decisions belong exclusively to employers, and no job placement, salary, or employment outcome is guaranteed.
Our teaching philosophy draws on cybersecurity practice, teaching, and research to help learners understand security reasoning and leave with verifiable evidence.
Start with clear foundational explanations, guided lab exercises, and structured challenges. Grow toward independent analysis without being expected to know everything on day one.
Apply technical knowledge through realistic incident investigations, cloud configuration reviews, troubleshooting, and professional technical report writing.
Clear answers regarding our learning approach, laboratory environments, and career-support boundaries.
Explore our four practice-led training courses with structured weekly progression, authentic telemetry environments, and verifiable capstone deliverables.