Cybersecurity Analyst Path
Career-changers breaking into defensive security through the SOC, monitoring and threat detection, no prior experience needed.
4 stepsHands-on labsCapstone + portfolioA named role
Assessed work, a capstone and a verified credential
What the path adds
Membership covers foundation reading. A path is where the work is assessed and the credential is earned.
- Marked work
- Your written submissions are assessed against a rubric, not ticked off.
- Cumulative assessment
- One exam across the whole path, not a quiz per course.
- Capstone
- A final piece of real work, reviewed.
- Portfolio artefact
- Something you can put in front of a hiring manager.
- Verified credential
- A Professional Path Credential with a public verification page.
By the end, you can
What this path makes you able to do.
- Triage, escalate and hand over security alerts like a working SOC analyst
- Turn network and endpoint telemetry into detections mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
- Run an alert from detection through containment to a written incident report
A guided journey, not a pile of courses
The 4-step path.
- 1View course
Security Operations Foundations
What a SOC defends & how to triage alerts
- 2View course
Network & Endpoint Security Monitoring
Detections from the wire & the host
- 3View course
Threat Detection & Incident Triage
MITRE ATT&CK, triage & containment
Capstone: work a live incident end to end
Detection logic, triage notes, containment plan and incident report
Every path is backed by
Hands-on labs. A final exam & capstone. A real role.
You finish with a portfolio you can show, a cumulative exam, and the skills to land the Cybersecurity Analyst role.
Not sure this is the one? Take the free fit and aptitude check first: twelve short questions, instant answer.