Learning & Courses

Hands-on training and courses I'm completing to build my cybersecurity and blue team skills.

TryHackMe SOC Level 1 Learning (In Progress)

What I Learned:

  • Blue Team and SOC fundamentals — SOC structure, analyst roles, internal SOC vs MSSP career paths
  • Human and system attack vectors — social engineering, phishing, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, supply chain attacks
  • SOC alert triage, reporting, workbooks, and metrics — L1 analyst workflows and SOC team performance
  • EDR fundamentals — visibility, detection, and response capabilities with hands-on lab practice
  • Phishing analysis — introduction to phishing with SOC simulator
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HackTheBox SOC Analyst Course (In Progress)

What I Learned:

  • Incident handling fundamentals — definitions, scope, prioritization, and incident management
  • Cyber Kill Chain — all seven stages from Recon through Action, understanding attack lifecycles
  • MITRE ATT&CK Framework — tactics, techniques, sub-techniques, and Pyramid of Pain concepts
  • Incident handling process — four-stage framework (Preparation, Detection & Analysis, Containment/Eradication/Recovery, Post-Incident Activity)
  • Case management — The Hive Platform for incident response and alert correlation
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