Professional Cybersecurity Analyst — Detection, investigation and incident response
A complete professional pathway for detecting, qualifying, investigating and helping respond to cybersecurity incidents.
A Cybersecurity Analyst monitors systems, identities, networks, endpoints and cloud environments to identify abnormal behavior, qualify alerts and contribute to incident response. The role works from logs, telemetry and digital evidence, separates facts from hypotheses, and documents and escalates conclusions in a traceable way.
This pathway develops practical skills in network, system and identity fundamentals, SIEM, SOC triage, threat intelligence, investigation, incident response, threat hunting, cloud security, detection rules, SOAR, vulnerability management and SOC operations. Exercises remain defensive and controlled: every conclusion must be supported by evidence, verification and an explainable professional decision.
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15 courses • 150 interactive lessons • 45 to 75 hours of conversational learning
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Complete Pack — Cybersecurity Analyst
399,00 € excl. VAT
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Network, system and identity foundations
Understand the technical, network and identity environment required to analyze security events.
Course information
IT professionals, security analysts, administrators, system or network engineers and career changers who want to build the operational skills of a Cybersecurity Analyst.
No advanced prerequisite. General IT awareness and the ability to follow technical instructions are recommended.
- Understand the role of the Cybersecurity Analyst, the SOC and incident response teams
- Read a DNS resolution and identify the traces left by network communication
- Read a simple packet capture (pcap) and identify fields useful for investigation
- Understand zero-trust models and their impact on detection
- Apply the course methods and tools to a representative professional situation.
- Produce a usable and verifiable outcome by combining the concepts covered: Understand zero-trust models and their impact on detection
- Check the quality of data, results, evidence or decisions before communication or implementation.
- Document the approach, explain limitations and defend the choices made to a professional stakeholder.
3 to 5 h
24,90 € excl. VAT
Attack mechanisms, vulnerabilities and log sources
Recognize common attack mechanisms and identify the logging sources available for security analysis.
Course information
IT professionals, security analysts, administrators, system or network engineers and career changers who want to build the operational skills of a Cybersecurity Analyst.
No advanced prerequisite. General IT awareness and the ability to follow technical instructions are recommended.
- Identify the main Windows and Linux security components
- Understand attack phases using a tactics-and-techniques framework
- Distinguish malware categories: worm, Trojan, rootkit and spyware
- Understand the role of an EDR and what it captures compared with a SIEM
- Apply the course methods and tools to a representative professional situation.
- Produce a usable and verifiable outcome by combining the concepts covered: Understand the role of an EDR and what it captures compared with a SIEM
- Check the quality of data, results, evidence or decisions before communication or implementation.
- Document the approach, explain limitations and defend the choices made to a professional stakeholder.
3 to 5 h
24,90 € excl. VAT
Event interpretation and evidence
Interpret security events rigorously and apply sound evidence collection and preservation principles.
Course information
IT professionals, security analysts, administrators, system or network engineers and career changers who want to build the operational skills of a Cybersecurity Analyst.
No advanced prerequisite. General IT awareness and the ability to follow technical instructions are recommended.
- Read a security event and distinguish fact, context, hypothesis and conclusion
- Build an initial criticality matrix to prioritize alerts and incidents
- Write a factual analysis note that clearly separates observation from interpretation
- Professional workshop: reconstruct a simple intrusion from a set of logs
- Apply the course methods and tools to a representative professional situation.
- Produce a usable and verifiable outcome by combining the concepts covered: reconstruct a simple intrusion from a set of logs
- Check the quality of data, results, evidence or decisions before communication or implementation.
- Document the approach, explain limitations and defend the choices made to a professional stakeholder.
3 to 5 h
24,90 € excl. VAT
89,70 €
76,90 excl. VAT
Savings : 12,80 €
SIEM architecture and log investigation
Use a SIEM and search logs efficiently to build a reliable first view of security events.
Course information
IT professionals, security analysts, administrators, system or network engineers and career changers who want to build the operational skills of a Cybersecurity Analyst.
A working knowledge of the foundations introduced in the first courses, or equivalent practical experience, is recommended.
- Understand SIEM architecture and the path from ingestion to normalization, correlation and alerting
- Qualify an abnormal-authentication alert and search for related connections
- Write efficient search queries using Boolean operators and regular expressions
- Manage log noise and volume without losing detection coverage
- Apply the course methods and tools to a representative professional situation.
- Produce a usable and verifiable outcome by combining the concepts covered: Manage log noise and volume without losing detection coverage
- Check the quality of data, results, evidence or decisions before communication or implementation.
- Document the approach, explain limitations and defend the choices made to a professional stakeholder.
3 to 5 h
29,90 € excl. VAT
Network, email and threat intelligence analysis
Analyze network and email alerts and use threat intelligence to enrich the context of an alert.
Course information
IT professionals, security analysts, administrators, system or network engineers and career changers who want to build the operational skills of a Cybersecurity Analyst.
A working knowledge of the foundations introduced in the first courses, or equivalent practical experience, is recommended.
- Examine a network event: domain, IP, port, protocol, volume and direction
- Distinguish false positive, benign true positive, confirmed incident and undetermined event
- Break down an infection chain from a malicious attachment or link
- Identify potential false negatives from a given detection source
- Apply the course methods and tools to a representative professional situation.
- Produce a usable and verifiable outcome by combining the concepts covered: Identify potential false negatives from a given detection source
- Check the quality of data, results, evidence or decisions before communication or implementation.
- Document the approach, explain limitations and defend the choices made to a professional stakeholder.
3 to 5 h
29,90 € excl. VAT
Severity, escalation and detection quality
Prioritize alerts, escalate complex cases and measure the quality and operational cost of detection rules.
Course information
IT professionals, security analysts, administrators, system or network engineers and career changers who want to build the operational skills of a Cybersecurity Analyst.
A working knowledge of the foundations introduced in the first courses, or equivalent practical experience, is recommended.
- Determine severity and priority based on impact, scope, privileges and asset criticality
- Measure rule quality: precision, coverage, volume and handling cost
- Measure mean alert-handling time and identify bottlenecks
- Professional workshop: process a SOC alert queue and produce triage decisions
- Apply the course methods and tools to a representative professional situation.
- Produce a usable and verifiable outcome by combining the concepts covered: process a SOC alert queue and produce triage decisions
- Check the quality of data, results, evidence or decisions before communication or implementation.
- Document the approach, explain limitations and defend the choices made to a professional stakeholder.
3 to 5 h
29,90 € excl. VAT
104,70 €
89,90 excl. VAT
Savings : 14,80 €
Investigation initiation and timeline reconstruction
Launch a structured investigation and reconstruct a reliable timeline of attacker activity.
Course information
IT professionals, security analysts, administrators, system or network engineers and career changers who want to build the operational skills of a Cybersecurity Analyst.
A working knowledge of the foundations introduced in the first courses, or equivalent practical experience, is recommended.
- Start an investigation from a confirmed incident and define the initial scope
- Analyze outbound connections, downloads, potential exfiltration and command-and-control
- Correlate timelines from cloud and on-premises sources
- Distinguish legitimate use from privilege abuse on a highly privileged account
- Apply the course methods and tools to a representative professional situation.
- Produce a usable and verifiable outcome by combining the concepts covered: Distinguish legitimate use from privilege abuse on a highly privileged account
- Check the quality of data, results, evidence or decisions before communication or implementation.
- Document the approach, explain limitations and defend the choices made to a professional stakeholder.
3 to 5 h
34,90 € excl. VAT
Evidence collection, impact and containment
Collect relevant technical evidence, assess incident impact and decide on proportionate containment measures.
Course information
IT professionals, security analysts, administrators, system or network engineers and career changers who want to build the operational skills of a Cybersecurity Analyst.
You should already master the pathway foundations or have equivalent experience. Advanced courses build on methods, tools and controls introduced earlier.
- Collect useful endpoint evidence without destroying traces
- Coordinate secret resets, session revocation and temporary blocking
- Assess the financial and reputational impact of an incident beyond the technical dimension
- Verify the effectiveness of a containment measure after implementation
- Apply the course methods and tools to a representative professional situation.
- Produce a usable and verifiable outcome by combining the concepts covered: Verify the effectiveness of a containment measure after implementation
- Check the quality of data, results, evidence or decisions before communication or implementation.
- Document the approach, explain limitations and defend the choices made to a professional stakeholder.
3 to 5 h
34,90 € excl. VAT
Recovery, documentation and lessons learned
Restore services safely, document the incident and turn lessons learned into concrete improvements.
Course information
IT professionals, security analysts, administrators, system or network engineers and career changers who want to build the operational skills of a Cybersecurity Analyst.
You should already master the pathway foundations or have equivalent experience. Advanced courses build on methods, tools and controls introduced earlier.
- Restore services with checks before returning them to production
- Run a lessons-learned review and turn findings into corrective actions
- Adapt a crisis message for technical, management or external audiences
- Professional workshop: manage an account-compromise incident with internal propagation
- Apply the course methods and tools to a representative professional situation.
- Produce a usable and verifiable outcome by combining the concepts covered: manage an account-compromise incident with internal propagation
- Check the quality of data, results, evidence or decisions before communication or implementation.
- Document the approach, explain limitations and defend the choices made to a professional stakeholder.
3 to 5 h
34,90 € excl. VAT
119,70 €
101,90 excl. VAT
Savings : 17,80 €
Threat hunting hypotheses and suspicious behavior
Formulate and test threat-hunting hypotheses based on behavior rather than isolated indicators.
Course information
IT professionals, security analysts, administrators, system or network engineers and career changers who want to build the operational skills of a Cybersecurity Analyst.
You should already master the pathway foundations or have equivalent experience. Advanced courses build on methods, tools and controls introduced earlier.
- Formulate a threat-hunting hypothesis from an attack technique or business risk
- Create a baseline of normal activity to identify meaningful deviations
- Build a knowledge base of previously tested hypotheses and results
- Use an advanced query language to explore large volumes of data
- Apply the course methods and tools to a representative professional situation.
- Produce a usable and verifiable outcome by combining the concepts covered: Use an advanced query language to explore large volumes of data
- Check the quality of data, results, evidence or decisions before communication or implementation.
- Document the approach, explain limitations and defend the choices made to a professional stakeholder.
3 to 5 h
39,90 € excl. VAT
Cloud, lateral movement and exfiltration investigation
Extend investigations to cloud and hybrid environments and look for lateral movement and exfiltration signals.
Course information
IT professionals, security analysts, administrators, system or network engineers and career changers who want to build the operational skills of a Cybersecurity Analyst.
You should already master the pathway foundations or have equivalent experience. Advanced courses build on methods, tools and controls introduced earlier.
- Interpret persistence artifacts and execution traces on a system
- Look for signs of exfiltration through volume, destination, compression or unusual behavior
- Identify a cloud IAM misconfiguration exploited by an attacker
- Map telemetry blind spots across on-premises and cloud environments
- Apply the course methods and tools to a representative professional situation.
- Produce a usable and verifiable outcome by combining the concepts covered: Map telemetry blind spots across on-premises and cloud environments
- Check the quality of data, results, evidence or decisions before communication or implementation.
- Document the approach, explain limitations and defend the choices made to a professional stakeholder.
3 to 5 h
39,90 € excl. VAT
Detection engineering and SOC automation
Design, test and maintain detection rules and use automation without losing analyst control or traceability.
Course information
IT professionals, security analysts, administrators, system or network engineers and career changers who want to build the operational skills of a Cybersecurity Analyst.
You should already master the pathway foundations or have equivalent experience. Advanced courses build on methods, tools and controls introduced earlier.
- Design a detection rule with logic, context, exclusions and severity level
- Automate triage and response with SOAR and defensive AI: enrichment, summarization, orchestration, controlled actions and human validation
- Measure the reduction in handling time delivered by SOAR automation
- Professional workshop: run a complete hunt, investigate a hybrid scenario and deliver a validated detection or automation improvement
- Apply the course methods and tools to a representative professional situation.
- Produce a usable and verifiable outcome by combining the concepts covered: run a complete hunt, investigate a hybrid scenario and deliver a validated detection or automation improvement
- Check the quality of data, results, evidence or decisions before communication or implementation.
- Document the approach, explain limitations and defend the choices made to a professional stakeholder.
3 to 5 h
39,90 € excl. VAT
135,00 €
114,90 excl. VAT
Savings : 20,10 €
Vulnerability management and attack surface
Prioritize vulnerabilities and exposure by combining technical severity, business context and evidence of exploitability.
Course information
IT professionals, security analysts, administrators, system or network engineers and career changers who want to build the operational skills of a Cybersecurity Analyst.
You should already master the pathway foundations or have equivalent experience. Advanced courses build on methods, tools and controls introduced earlier.
- Define a SOC operating model suited to the organization's size, risks and constraints
- Manage a backlog of detections, hunts, playbooks and telemetry debt
- Choose between an internal, outsourced or hybrid SOC based on organizational context
- Present a continuous-improvement roadmap for the detection capability
- Apply the course methods and tools to a representative professional situation.
- Produce a usable and verifiable outcome by combining the concepts covered: Present a continuous-improvement roadmap for the detection capability
- Check the quality of data, results, evidence or decisions before communication or implementation.
- Document the approach, explain limitations and defend the choices made to a professional stakeholder.
3 to 5 h
45,00 € excl. VAT
SOC performance and security operations governance
Measure SOC effectiveness, organize operational governance and improve processes, coverage and analyst workload.
Course information
IT professionals, security analysts, administrators, system or network engineers and career changers who want to build the operational skills of a Cybersecurity Analyst.
You should already master the pathway foundations or have equivalent experience. Advanced courses build on methods, tools and controls introduced earlier.
- Avoid misleading KPIs based only on the volume of alerts handled
- Organize crisis exercises and technical table-top simulations
- Prioritize a plan to close telemetry blind spots based on risk
- Adapt a crisis playbook to a specific regulated sector
- Apply the course methods and tools to a representative professional situation.
- Produce a usable and verifiable outcome by combining the concepts covered: Adapt a crisis playbook to a specific regulated sector
- Check the quality of data, results, evidence or decisions before communication or implementation.
- Document the approach, explain limitations and defend the choices made to a professional stakeholder.
3 to 5 h
45,00 € excl. VAT
Professional cyber investigation and decision-making
Lead a complete defensive investigation, defend conclusions with evidence and communicate decisions to technical and executive stakeholders.
Course information
IT professionals, security analysts, administrators, system or network engineers and career changers who want to build the operational skills of a Cybersecurity Analyst.
You should already master the pathway foundations or have equivalent experience. Advanced courses build on methods, tools and controls introduced earlier.
- Integrate incident lessons learned into risk and vulnerability management
- Build a professional portfolio of anonymized investigations, rules and reports
- Build an executive dashboard for senior management
- Final project: lead a simulated major incident and present the remediation plan and SOC improvement roadmap
- Apply the course methods and tools to a representative professional situation.
- Produce a usable and verifiable outcome by combining the concepts covered: lead a simulated major incident and present the remediation plan and SOC improvement roadmap
- Check the quality of data, results, evidence or decisions before communication or implementation.
- Document the approach, explain limitations and defend the choices made to a professional stakeholder.
3 to 5 h
45,00 € excl. VAT