This course focuses on building modern incident response and detection capabilities to effectively defend against today’s evolving cyber threats. Drawing from real-world expertise and threat intelligence, it provides a practical, defender-focused approach to security operations, detection engineering, and response preparedness.

Learners begin by understanding incident response readiness and how to establish an effective response capability before attacks occur. The course explores modern attack techniques such as ransomware, lateral movement, identity-based attacks, supply chain compromises, browser-based malware, and cloud-native threats. Real-world case studies, including hospital ransomware incidents, demonstrate how attackers operate and how defenders successfully stop them.

A strong emphasis is placed on detection and investigation. Learners develop skills to investigate suspicious alerts, understand attacker tradecraft such as scripts, loaders, crypters, and backdoors, and improve detection strategies using frameworks like Atomic Red Team. The course also covers EDR selection, SOC alert triage, and the role of automation and AI in improving detection efficiency.

Additionally, learners explore resilience strategies, insider threat mitigation, zero trust concepts, and incident response planning. By the end of the course, participants will be able to strengthen detection programs, respond quickly to incidents, and align SOC operations with real-world adversary behavior. This course is ideal for SOC analysts, detection engineers, Blue Team professionals, and security leaders.