Название: Jump-start Your SOC Analyst Career: A Roadmap to Cybersecurity Success, 2nd Edition
Автор: Tyler Wall, Jarrett Rodrick
Издательство: Apress
Год: 2024
Страниц: 289
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 31.0 MB

The frontlines of cybersecurity operations include many unfilled jobs and exciting career opportunities.A transition to a security operations center (SOC) analyst position could be the start of a new path for you. Learn to actively analyze threats, protect your enterprise from harm, and kick-start your road to cybersecurity success with this one-of-a-kind book.

Authors Tyler E. Wall and Jarrett W. Rodrick carefully and expertly share real-world insights and practical tips in Jump-start Your SOC Analyst Career. The lessons revealed equip you for interview preparation, tackling day one on the job, and setting long-term development goals.This book highlights personal stories from five SOC professionals at various career levels with keen advice that is immediately applicable to your own journey. The gems of knowledge shared in this book provide you with a notable advantage for entering this dynamic field of work.

The recent surplus in demand for SOC analysts makes Jump-start Your SOC Analyst Career a must-have for aspiring tech professionals and long-time veterans alike. Recent industry developments such as using the cloud and security automation are broken down in concise,understandable ways, to name a few. The rapidly changing world of cybersecurity requires innovation and fresh eyes, and this book is your roadmap to success.

The first requisite skill we’ll talk about is networking. No, this won’t be about how to talk to people, but we will cover the basics of the modern TCP/IP stack and OSI model. Basically, the TCP/IP stack can be viewed as a set of layers; each layer solves a set of problems around the transmission of data. The TCP/IP stack contains four layers. Alternatively, there is a seven-layer model called the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model that contains seven layers. Today, the OSI model is more generally used as it provides a more granular view of the encapsulation process. Data encapsulation and decapsulation is the process of taking data from one layer of the OSI model and translating it into the next layer. Whether that is adding or peeling layers back, it is being prepared for the next layer. As a broad example, decapsulation is the process of turning the binary 1’s and 0’s in the physical layer into something that is human readable in the application layer. Regardless if you’re viewing a web page or watching a video, data encapsulation and decapsulation is pivotal to the flow of data on our networks.

The basic tenets of security revolved around the concept of CIA Triad, not the Central Intelligence Agency, but confidentiality, integrity, and availability. All of security can be broken down from these three high-level categories. Confidentiality is the secrecy of the information, making sure that the information can only be seen by the intended people, no more no less. Integrity revolves around the correctness of the data, making sure that the information you are consuming is the data that you intend to consume, complete and unaltered. Availability consists of making sure that the data is able to be used when it is needed to be used. For instance, a denial of service attack can make a website unavailable to people who try to visit it. This is an attack on availability.

New to this edition:
This revised edition includes three entirely new chapters: Roadmap to Cybersecurity Success, The SOC Analyst Method, and ChatGPT for SOC Analysts. In addition, new material includes a substantially revised Cloud chapter, revised pre-requisite skills, and minor revisions to all chapters to update data.

What You Will Learn:
• Understand the demand for SOC analysts
• Know how to find a SOC analyst job fast
• Be aware of the people you will interact with as a SOC analyst
• Be clear on the prerequisite skills needed to be a SOC analyst and what to study
• Be familiar with the day-to-day life of a SOC analyst, including the tools
and language used
• Discover the rapidly emerging areas of a SOC analyst job: the cloud
• and security automation
• Explore the career paths of a SOC analyst
• Discover background-specific tips for your roadmap to cybersecurity success
• Know how to analyze a security event
• Know how to apply ChatGPT as a SOC analyst

Who This Book Is For:
Anyone interested in starting a career in cybersecurity: recent graduates, IT professionals transitioning into security, veterans, and those who are self-taught.

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