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Cybersecurity monitoring screens

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Operator

Learn practical SOC workflows, threat modeling, and secure engineering basics.

Level

Intermediate

Duration

44 hours

Lessons

42 lessons

What you will build

Run a simulated incident response review for a SaaS app.

Outcomes

Investigate alerts and write useful incident notes

Model threats for web and cloud applications

Harden authentication, logging, and deployment pipelines

Detailed curriculum

Each module includes practical lessons, time estimates, and project checkpoints.

44 hours total

1

Security foundations

Learn the core language and risk models security teams use.

11h 45m
  • Threat models

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    Map assets, entry points, actors, and likely abuse cases.

    1h 50m
  • Risk scoring

    Prioritize issues by likelihood, impact, and exploitability.

    1h 40m
  • Identity

    Understand auth, sessions, MFA, and privilege boundaries.

    2h 05m
  • Secure defaults

    Apply baseline controls for modern web applications.

    1h 35m
2

SOC workflow

Practice realistic investigation and response routines.

14h 20m
  • Alert triage

    Separate noise from incidents with evidence-based notes.

    2h 10m
  • Log review

    Inspect identity, network, and application logs for signals.

    2h 35m
  • Incident reports

    Write timelines, scope, impact, and next actions.

    2h 20m
  • Detection tuning

    Adjust rules to reduce false positives without blind spots.

    2h 05m
3

Secure delivery

Move security checks into the product delivery lifecycle.

12h 10m
  • Secrets

    Store, rotate, and monitor secrets safely.

    1h 50m
  • CI checks

    Add dependency, SAST, and configuration checks.

    2h 15m
  • Monitoring

    Create alerts for auth, abuse, and suspicious traffic.

    2h 05m
  • Post-incident actions

    Convert findings into fixes, tests, and controls.

    1h 40m