Course 1 of 4Beginner
Networking
Why this course: Attacks arrive over the network: reading IP addresses, ports, DNS and HTTP is how you tell normal traffic from suspicious traffic.
- 8 lessons
- ~6h
- Not started
0 of 8 lessons done
Cyber Security Analyst
Cyber security analysts protect an organization's systems by watching for signs of attack, investigating alerts and helping to contain incidents. Many work in a Security Operations Center (SOC), where they read logs and network traffic, separate real threats from false alarms, and escalate what they find with clear evidence.
- 4 courses· 1 coming soon
- 25 lessons
- ~16h
- Beginner to Advanced
If you like
- Following clues until the story makes sense
- Spotting the one detail that does not fit
- Keeping a cool head when something goes wrong
Skills you will build
- Network traffic analysis
- Log analysis
- Linux and Windows fundamentals
- Alert triage and threat detection
- Incident response
- Security controls and hardening
- Clear incident reporting
Typical job titles
- SOC Analyst
- Security Analyst
- Incident Responder
- Security Monitoring Analyst
Courses in this path
Take them in order, from Beginner to Advanced. A course you finish counts in every career path that includes it.
Beginner
Intermediate
- Course 2 of 4Intermediate
Operating Systems
Why this course: Alerts point at processes, users, files and permissions on a host; knowing how an operating system works tells you what to inspect.
- 8 lessons
- ~6h
- Not started
0 of 8 lessons done - Course 3 of 4Intermediate
Cyber Security
Why this course: The core of the role: common attacks, web security and how SOC analysis works day to day.
- 9 lessons
- ~5h
- Not started
0 of 9 lessons done
Advanced
- Course 4 of 4Advanced Coming soon
Incident Response & SOC Operations
Alert triage, investigation, containment and reporting, as practiced in a Security Operations Center.
Why this course: Puts it all together in SOC practice: triaging alerts, investigating an incident from the first signal to containment, and writing the report.
This course is being written. It will open here when its first lessons are published.
Completing this path
Finish every course of the path to complete it. Each course you finish earns its own certificate of completion.
Course certificates
- Networking8 lessons left
- Operating Systems8 lessons left
- Cyber Security9 lessons left
- Incident Response & SOC OperationsComing soon
There is no separate certificate for a whole path yet: your proof is the certificate of each course, which anyone can verify.