The Main purpose of the Cybersecurity analyst is to analyze the threats and mitigate or prevent the attack.SOC Analyst is defensive side career.
"Security Operation is the discipline of ensuring that an organization's business is not interrupted by detecting, preventing, protecting, and responding to cybersecurity threats and attacks. "
There are many different sub-branches of Security Operations, such as Security Operations Center (SOC) and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), both of which you learned about in the previous chapter. In this chapter, we'll learn about something new: Incident Response.
Steps to Become a SOC Analyst:
Learn fundamentals
Create portfolio
Experience
Blue team certification
Find job
1)-Learn Fundamentals
First Before starting you need this learn about computer fundamental and networking fundamental because your basic is not clear so you don't become a good SOC Analyst.
Learning basic free so visit youtube Professor Messer video playlist,simply cyber.I provide link for you best github repository by Aleksandra.
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2)-Create portfolio
You are complete first step so you create a portfolio because you should now be able to show them to people. you can share blog posts that will show that you are interested in cyber security. It doesn’t matter at this stage that the subject you will write about has been written by 1000 people before, our aim is to clearly show that we are interested in this field.
Using your programming skills, you can develop some tools and publish them on Github or contribute to open source projects.
Additionally, you can use your LetsDefend profile, the SOC analyst training platform. Thus, you can easily show which types of cases you have studied and with what success rate.
3)-Experience
An internship in the field of Blue team will make this process easier. If you are a college student, you can make it clear that you really want to make a career in the blue team by doing your internship in this field.
4)-Blue Team Certification
Getting certified at this stage may not always make sense. Because getting certified is expensive and time consuming. Despite all this, having a certificate will make you stand out.The following website will assist you in choosing a certificate.
I provide link about security certificate roadmap by paul
5)-Find Job
Now that we have completed the beginning stages, we can now look for a SOC analyst job. First, we can start with a carefully prepared resume.
The best way to find a job is to use our existing networking. In cases where our circle is not large enough, we can make applications by searching on LinkedIn or similar platforms. Afterwards, you can find the relevant manager, team leader and write to him/her why you are suitable for this position via e-mail or LinkedIn.
Thanks For Reading and Best Of Luck Your SOC Journey.
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