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SOC Analyst Path

People who want to work in a Security Operations Center: monitoring, triaging alerts, and responding to incidents. A hands-on route into blue-team Cybersecurity, no prior experience needed.

5 stepsHands-on labsCapstone + portfolioA named role
$1,199or 3 payments of $439, by arrangement how payment worksStart this path Not sure? Talk to us

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 security alerts and investigate events with a structured workflow
  • Run the detection-to-reporting incident response lifecycle
  • Map monitoring and response to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
A guided journey, not a pile of courses

The 5-step path.

  1. 1

    Cybersecurity Foundations

    The core concepts & landscape

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  2. 2

    CompTIA Security+ Prep

    Baseline security knowledge

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  3. 3

    CompTIA CySA+ Prep

    The Cybersecurity Analyst cert: detection & analysis

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  4. 4

    Incident Response & Reporting

    Detection-to-reporting workflows

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  5. Capstone: triage & IR runbook

    Investigate events and document the response end-to-end

Practice, not just reading

Hands-on lab work.

Every step above is backed by real practice in Atlas, our simulated workbench. You do the work an employer would hand you, and you keep the artifacts as portfolio evidence.

SOC / Detection

SOC Analyst: Alert Triage & IR

Work a Tier-1 SOC queue: triage alerts (false positive / benign / escalate), connect the kill-chain into one incident, run the NIST 800-61 lifecycle, and write the incident report.

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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 SOC Analyst role.

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