The CSA exam is designed to test and validate a candidate’s comprehensive understanding of the job tasks required as a SOC analyst. Thereby, validating their comprehensive understanding of a complete SOC workflow.
Gain Knowledge of SOC processes, procedures, technologies, and workflows.
Gain a basic understanding and in-depth knowledge of security threats, attacks, vulnerabilities, attacker’s behaviors, cyber killchain, etc.
Able to recognize attacker tools, tactics, and procedures to identify indicators of compromise (IOCs) that can be utilized during active and future investigations.
Able to monitor and analyze logs and alerts from a variety of different technologies across multiple platforms (IDS/IPS, end-point protection, servers, and workstations).
Gain knowledge of the 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 of 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 in 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 the 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 Incident Response Process.
Gain understating of SOC and IRT collaboration for better incident response.
