EC Council Certified Soc Analyst
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About C|SA
• Become a cyber first responder with the most practical program ever!
• EC-Council’s Certified SOC Analyst (C|SA) program is the first step to joining a security operations center (SOC).
• Organizations need skilled SOC Analysts who can serve as the front-line defenders, warning other
professionals of emerging and present cyber threats.
• Learn to detect potential cyber threats actively and quickly respond to security incidents.
• Our program helps you to achieve proficiency in performing entry-level and intermediate-level SOC operations.
Here's an Inside Look into What You're Going to Learn with the C|SA Program
Module 1 – Security Operations and Management
Module 2 – Understanding Cyber Threats, IoCs, and Attack Methodology
Module 3 – Incidents, Events, and Logging
Module 4 – Incident Detection with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Module 5 – Enhanced Incident Detection with Threat Intelligence
Module 6 – Incident Response
8 Critical Components of EC-Council SOC Analyst Certification
1. 100% Compliance to NICE 2.0 Framework
• CSA maps 100 percent to the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) framework under the
“Protect and Defend (PR)” category for the role of Cyber Defense Analysis (CDA).
• It is designed as per the real-time job roles and responsibilities of a SOC analyst.
• The CSA course trains the candidate to use various defensive measures and data collected from multiple
sources to identify, analyze, and report events that might occur or are already present in the network to
protect data, systems, and networks from threats.
2. Emphasizes on End-to-End SOC Workflow
• CSA offers an insightful understanding of end-to-end SOC overflow. It includes all SOC procedures,
technologies, and processes to collect, triage, report, respond, and document the incident.
3. Learn Incident Detection with SIEM
• Training on various use cases of SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) solutions to detect
incidents through signature and anomaly-based detection technologies. Candidates will learn incident
detection on different levels – Application level, Insider level, Network level, and Host level.
4. Enhanced Incident Detection with Threat Intelligence
• CSA covers a module dedicated to rapid incident detection with Threat Intelligence. The module also
imparts knowledge on integrating Threat Intelligence feeds into SIEM for enhanced threat detection.
5. Elaborate Understanding of SIEM Deployment
• It covers 45 elaborated use cases which are widely used across all the SIEM deployments
6. Promotes Hands-On Learning
• CSA, being a practically driven program, offers hands-on experience on incident monitoring, detection,
triaging, and analysis. It also covers containment, eradication, recovery, and reporting of security
incidents. To that end, there are 80 tools incorporated into the training.
7. Lab Environment Simulates a Real-time Environment
• There are 22 labs in total in the CSA program, which demonstrates processes aligned to the SOC
Workflow. These include, but are not restricted to, activities such as:
1. Modus operandi of different type of attacks at application, network and host level to understand their IOCs
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2. Working of local and centralized logging concepts which demonstrates how logs are pulled from the
different devices on the network to facilitate incident monitoring, detection, and analysis
3. Examples of SIEM use case development for detecting application, network and host level incidents using
various SIEM tools
4. Triaging of alerts to provide rapid incident detection and response
5. Prioritization and escalation of incidents by generating incident ticket
6. The containment of incidents
7. The eradication of incidents
8. The recovery from the incidents
9. Creating report of the incidents
8. Learn More with Additional Reference Material
• The CSA program comes with additional reference material, including a list of 291 common and specific
use cases for ArcSight, Qradar, LogRhythm, and Splunk’s SIEM deployments.
Here are the Learning Objectives of C|SA Program
1. Gain Knowledge of SOC processes, procedures, technologies, and workflows.
2. Gain a basic understanding and in-depth knowledge of security threats, attacks, vulnerabilities, attacker’s
behaviors, cyber kill chain, etc.
3. Able to recognize attacker tools, tactics, and procedures to identify indicators of compromise (IOCs) that can
be utilized during active and future investigations.
4. Gain knowledge of the Centralized Log Management (CLM) process.
5. 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).
6. Able to perform Security events and log collection, monitoring, and analysis.
7. Gain experience and extensive knowledge of Security Information and Event Management.
8. Gain knowledge of administering SIEM solutions (Splunk/AlienVault/OSSIM/ELK).
9. Understand the architecture, implementation and fine-tuning of SIEM solutions
(Splunk/AlienVault/OSSIM/ELK).
10. Gain hands-on experience in SIEM use case development process.
11. Able to develop threat cases (correlation rules), create reports, etc.
12. Learn use cases that are widely used across the SIEM deployment.
13. Plan, organize, and perform threat monitoring and analysis in the enterprise.
14. Able to monitor emerging threat patterns and perform security threat analysis.
15. Gain hands-on experience in the alert triaging process.
16. Able to escalate incidents to appropriate teams for additional assistance.
17. Gain knowledge of integrating threat intelligence into SIEM for enhanced incident detection and response.
18. Able to make use of varied, disparate, constantly changing threat information.
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Shahid Ali khambro P a g e 1 | 44
, EC Council Certified Soc Analyst
Shahid Ali khambro P a g e 2 | 44
, EC Council Certified Soc Analyst
About C|SA
• Become a cyber first responder with the most practical program ever!
• EC-Council’s Certified SOC Analyst (C|SA) program is the first step to joining a security operations center (SOC).
• Organizations need skilled SOC Analysts who can serve as the front-line defenders, warning other
professionals of emerging and present cyber threats.
• Learn to detect potential cyber threats actively and quickly respond to security incidents.
• Our program helps you to achieve proficiency in performing entry-level and intermediate-level SOC operations.
Here's an Inside Look into What You're Going to Learn with the C|SA Program
Module 1 – Security Operations and Management
Module 2 – Understanding Cyber Threats, IoCs, and Attack Methodology
Module 3 – Incidents, Events, and Logging
Module 4 – Incident Detection with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Module 5 – Enhanced Incident Detection with Threat Intelligence
Module 6 – Incident Response
8 Critical Components of EC-Council SOC Analyst Certification
1. 100% Compliance to NICE 2.0 Framework
• CSA maps 100 percent to the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) framework under the
“Protect and Defend (PR)” category for the role of Cyber Defense Analysis (CDA).
• It is designed as per the real-time job roles and responsibilities of a SOC analyst.
• The CSA course trains the candidate to use various defensive measures and data collected from multiple
sources to identify, analyze, and report events that might occur or are already present in the network to
protect data, systems, and networks from threats.
2. Emphasizes on End-to-End SOC Workflow
• CSA offers an insightful understanding of end-to-end SOC overflow. It includes all SOC procedures,
technologies, and processes to collect, triage, report, respond, and document the incident.
3. Learn Incident Detection with SIEM
• Training on various use cases of SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) solutions to detect
incidents through signature and anomaly-based detection technologies. Candidates will learn incident
detection on different levels – Application level, Insider level, Network level, and Host level.
4. Enhanced Incident Detection with Threat Intelligence
• CSA covers a module dedicated to rapid incident detection with Threat Intelligence. The module also
imparts knowledge on integrating Threat Intelligence feeds into SIEM for enhanced threat detection.
5. Elaborate Understanding of SIEM Deployment
• It covers 45 elaborated use cases which are widely used across all the SIEM deployments
6. Promotes Hands-On Learning
• CSA, being a practically driven program, offers hands-on experience on incident monitoring, detection,
triaging, and analysis. It also covers containment, eradication, recovery, and reporting of security
incidents. To that end, there are 80 tools incorporated into the training.
7. Lab Environment Simulates a Real-time Environment
• There are 22 labs in total in the CSA program, which demonstrates processes aligned to the SOC
Workflow. These include, but are not restricted to, activities such as:
1. Modus operandi of different type of attacks at application, network and host level to understand their IOCs
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2. Working of local and centralized logging concepts which demonstrates how logs are pulled from the
different devices on the network to facilitate incident monitoring, detection, and analysis
3. Examples of SIEM use case development for detecting application, network and host level incidents using
various SIEM tools
4. Triaging of alerts to provide rapid incident detection and response
5. Prioritization and escalation of incidents by generating incident ticket
6. The containment of incidents
7. The eradication of incidents
8. The recovery from the incidents
9. Creating report of the incidents
8. Learn More with Additional Reference Material
• The CSA program comes with additional reference material, including a list of 291 common and specific
use cases for ArcSight, Qradar, LogRhythm, and Splunk’s SIEM deployments.
Here are the Learning Objectives of C|SA Program
1. Gain Knowledge of SOC processes, procedures, technologies, and workflows.
2. Gain a basic understanding and in-depth knowledge of security threats, attacks, vulnerabilities, attacker’s
behaviors, cyber kill chain, etc.
3. Able to recognize attacker tools, tactics, and procedures to identify indicators of compromise (IOCs) that can
be utilized during active and future investigations.
4. Gain knowledge of the Centralized Log Management (CLM) process.
5. 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).
6. Able to perform Security events and log collection, monitoring, and analysis.
7. Gain experience and extensive knowledge of Security Information and Event Management.
8. Gain knowledge of administering SIEM solutions (Splunk/AlienVault/OSSIM/ELK).
9. Understand the architecture, implementation and fine-tuning of SIEM solutions
(Splunk/AlienVault/OSSIM/ELK).
10. Gain hands-on experience in SIEM use case development process.
11. Able to develop threat cases (correlation rules), create reports, etc.
12. Learn use cases that are widely used across the SIEM deployment.
13. Plan, organize, and perform threat monitoring and analysis in the enterprise.
14. Able to monitor emerging threat patterns and perform security threat analysis.
15. Gain hands-on experience in the alert triaging process.
16. Able to escalate incidents to appropriate teams for additional assistance.
17. Gain knowledge of integrating threat intelligence into SIEM for enhanced incident detection and response.
18. Able to make use of varied, disparate, constantly changing threat information.
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