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Security operations

Practice monitoring security alerts, analyzing logs, triaging incidents, and making escalation decisions inside a SOC.

108 tickets available37 live labs
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Interactive live labs

Real terminals and hosts right in your browser.

Realistic incidents

Raw logs and evidence as they reach a real SOC.

Instant review against senior-analyst criteria

Instant feedback on your decisions and reasoning.

01

What you will learn

  • Analyse security alerts and log data
  • Review evidence and set the severity level
  • Decide between escalation and containment
  • Write clear analyst notes
  • Document the investigation outcome
02

Example shift tickets

Hands-on tasks like those an analyst receives on a real workday.

  • TKT-001Investigation

    Impossible-travel alert on an employee account

  • TKT-002Investigation

    Phishing email targeting the CFO

  • TKT-003Investigation

    Encoded PowerShell from a developer's laptop

03

How A shift works

  1. 1

    Open the shift

  2. 2

    Review the evidence

  3. 3

    Make the decision

  4. 4

    Write analyst notes

  5. 5

    Receive senior review

04

Who it is for

For anyone working in, or preparing to join, a SOC or Blue Team.

From basics to challenge

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Other specialties

Penetration testing5

Practice interpreting penetration test results, reviewing scope, rating risk, and writing safe remediation advice.

GRC

Practice reviewing risks, controls, policies, compliance, and security exceptions from a business perspective.

Cloud security18

Practice reviewing cloud configuration, access permissions, external exposure, logs, and cloud environment risks.

Network security12

Practice analyzing network alerts, reviewing firewalls, reading traffic, and assessing network infrastructure risk.

Incident response17

Practice containment and escalation decisions, evidence collection, and coordinating response during security incidents.

Threat hunting13

Practice building hunting hypotheses, analyzing suspicious behavior, and correlating indicators before they become incidents.

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