Professional Certification in Cybersecurity: Essentials, Analyst with AI

This job-ready program takes you from absolute fundamentals to an entry-level Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst who can also leverage AI for faster detection, triage, and response. You’ll learn networking and OS basics, threat landscape, log analysis, SIEM/EDR/SOAR tooling, the MITRE ATT&CK framework, playbook-driven incident response, and how to use AI (LLMs and automation) to boost analyst productivity—drafting queries, summarizing alerts, writing detections, and generating reports.
You’ll practice on realistic datasets, hands-on labs, blue-team scenarios, and a capstone project that simulates a complete incident from alert → investigation → containment → recovery → reporting. The syllabus references common enterprise tools (Splunk/Microsoft Sentinel/ELK, CrowdStrike/Microsoft Defender, TheHive/Wazuh-like stacks) and emphasizes Indian business contexts (cost-effective open-source options, privacy & governance basics).

Deliverables you’ll create:

• Personal homelab (Windows + Linux) with safe sample logs

• Detection rules & SIEM queries (KQL/SPL/Lucene)

• IR playbooks and runbooks (PDF + markdown)

• Executive incident report (non-technical) + technical post-incident report

• AI prompts library for SOC (triage, summarization, detection drafting)

• Capstone walkthrough and evidence pack

Prerequisites (recommended, not mandatory): Basic computer use, curiosity, willingness to lab.