CSA Training

The specific course outline for a Certified Security Associate certification may vary depending on the organization or certification body offering the program. However, I can provide a general overview of topics commonly covered in such a certification:

Learning Outcome

• Gain Knowledge of SOC processes, procedures, technologies, and workflows.
• Gain basic understanding and in-depth knowledge of security threats, attacks, vulnerabilities, attacker’s behaviors, cyber kill chain, etc.
• Able to recognize attacker tools, tactics, and procedures to identify indicators of compromise (IOCs) that can be utilized during active and future investigations.
• Gain knowledge of Centralized Log Management (CLM) process.
• Able to perform Security events and log collection, monitoring, and analysis.
• Gain experience and extensive knowledge of Security Information and Event Management.
• Gain knowledge on administering SIEM solutions (Splunk/AlienVault/OSSIM/ELK).
• Understand the architecture, implementation and fine tuning of SIEM solutions (Splunk/ AlienVault/OSSIM/ELK).
• Gain hands-on experience on SIEM use case development process.
• Able to develop threat cases (correlation rules), create reports, etc.
• Learn use cases that are widely used across the SIEM deployment.
• Plan, organize, and perform threat monitoring and analysis in the enterprise.
• Able to monitor emerging threat patterns and perform security threat analysis.
• Gain hands-on experience in alert triaging process.
• Able to escalate incidents to appropriate teams for additional assistance.
• Able to use a Service Desk ticketing system.
• Able to prepare briefings and reports of analysis methodology and results.
• Gain knowledge of integrating threat intelligence into SIEM for enhanced incident detection and response.
• Able to make use of varied, disparate, constantly changing threat information.
• Gain knowledge of the Incident Response Process.
• Gain understating of SOC and IRT collaboration