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SOC Analyst Path

People who want to work in a Security Operations Center — monitoring, triaging alerts, and responding to incidents. A hands-on route into blue-team cybersecurity, no prior experience needed.

5 stepsHands-on labsCapstone + portfolioA named role
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By the end, you can

What this path makes you able to do.

  • Triage security alerts and investigate events with a structured workflow
  • Run the detection-to-reporting incident response lifecycle
  • Map monitoring and response to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
A guided journey, not a pile of courses

The 5-step path.

  1. 1

    Cybersecurity Foundations

    The core concepts & landscape

  2. 2

    CompTIA Security+ Prep

    Baseline security knowledge

  3. 3

    CompTIA CySA+ Prep

    The Cybersecurity Analyst cert — detection & analysis

  4. 4

    Incident Response & Reporting

    Detection-to-reporting workflows

  5. ★

    Capstone: triage & IR runbook

    Investigate events and document the response end-to-end

Every path is backed by

Hands-on labs. A final exam & capstone. A real role.

You finish with a portfolio you can show, a cumulative exam, and the skills to land the SOC Analyst role.

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