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Alert Triage and Investigation
Complete alert triage workflow from receipt to closure or escalation.
4 modules
21 lessons
15 practical tasks
About This Course
Master the most critical SOC analyst skill - alert triage. Learn how to assess, prioritize, enrich, investigate, and make decisions on security alerts efficiently and accurately. This course covers the complete triage workflow from receiving an alert to closing or escalating it, with extensive practical scenarios.
What You'll Learn
- Apply a structured triage methodology to security alerts efficiently
- Enrich alerts with IP reputation, file hashes, user context, and historical data
- Pivot across multiple data sources to build investigation chains
- Differentiate true positives from false positives using evidence
- Classify incidents and assess severity using defined standards
- Make confident escalation or closure decisions with documented justification
Prerequisites
- SIEM Fundamentals
- SIEM Query Languages (Multi-Platform)