SIEM platforms, log analysis, threat hunting, incident response playbooks, and the analyst workflows that catch real attacks. Built from how security operations centers actually run — not theoretical frameworks.
This is a text-first course that links out to the best supporting material on the internet instead of trying to replace it. The goal is to make this the best course on soc you can find — even without producing a single minute of custom video.
This course is built by engineers who ship soc systems in production. It reflects how these tools actually behave at scale.
Every day includes working code examples you can copy, run, and modify right now. Understanding comes through doing.
Instead of re-explaining existing documentation, this course links to the definitive open-source implementations and the best reference material on soc available.
Each day is designed for about an hour of focused reading plus hands-on work. Do the whole course over a week of lunch breaks. No live classes, no quizzes.
Each day stands alone. Read them in order for the full picture, or jump straight to the day that answers the question you have today.
What a SIEM does and why, log sources (Windows events, Syslog, firewall, endpoint), log ingestion pipelines, normalization, and the index-and-query model that makes correlation rules possible.
Writing detection rules in SPL and KQL, reducing false positive noise, alert prioritization models, the 5-minute triage methodology for classifying incoming alerts, and escalation criteria.
Hypothesis-driven hunting vs IOC matching, MITRE ATT&CK framework for hunt hypotheses, hunting for lateral movement and persistence, and building hunt queries that find threats signature-based tools miss.
The PICERL lifecycle (Prepare, Identify, Contain, Eradicate, Recover, Lessons Learned), evidence collection, chain of custody, stakeholder communication during active incidents, and when to escalate to IR retainer.
Writing runbooks for the top 10 alert types, SOAR platform integration (Palo Alto XSOAR, Splunk SOAR), automated enrichment with threat intel APIs, and metrics for measuring SOC effectiveness.
Instead of shooting our own videos, we link to the best deep-dives already on YouTube. Watch them alongside the course. All external, all free, all from builders who ship this stuff.
Full SOC analyst tutorials covering SIEM usage, alert triage, and incident response procedures.
Using Splunk for log analysis, correlation searches, and SOC investigations — with real-world search examples.
How to use ATT&CK for threat hunting, detection engineering, and understanding attacker tactics and techniques.
Building and executing IR playbooks for the most common incident types — malware, phishing, insider threat, and ransomware.
Hypothesis-driven threat hunting workflows — how to search for threats that bypass automated detection.
The best way to deepen understanding is to read the canonical open-source implementations. Clone them, trace the code, understand how the concepts in this course get applied in production.
Generic signature format for SIEM systems. The rule repository has detection rules for hundreds of attack techniques — the canonical starting point for detection engineering.
Library of small, focused tests mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. Run these in test environments to verify your detections are working.
Open-source security incident response platform. Use it to manage IR cases, track observables, and coordinate analyst workflows.
Open-source digital forensics and incident response tool. The most powerful free alternative to commercial EDR for endpoint investigation.
Your first weeks in a SOC are overwhelming. This course structures the core workflows — SIEM, triage, hunting, IR — so you can operate effectively from day one.
You understand systems and logs. This course adds the security operations context — threat frameworks, correlation rules, and IR playbooks — to your existing technical background.
Understanding how SOC analysts work helps you build better security tooling. This course explains the analyst workflows your tools need to support.
The 2-day in-person Precision AI Academy bootcamp covers cybersecurity and SOC operations in depth — hands-on, with practitioners who build AI systems for a living. 5 U.S. cities. $1,490. 40 seats max. June–October 2026 (Thu–Fri).
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