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Tier 2+ Cyber Defense Specializations: Finding Your Path
Explore the technical disciplines that branch out from SOC analysis. Try PowerShell and Python scripting, detection engineering, cloud security, DevSecOps and web application testing to identify a direction for further study.
A learning path guides you through related courses in a set order. It can also include assessments to check your progress.
What you’ll practice
- Write PowerShell scripts for Windows administration and build a security tool in Python.
- Create Sigma and YARA detections and test them through adversary emulation.
- Analyze cloud security case studies and apply introductory DevSecOps practices.
- Follow a web application penetration test in a training environment.
- Compare the work involved in scripting, detection, cloud security and application testing.
Topics
- Scripting
- Detection engineering
- Cloud security
- Application security
Counts include distinct published activities in this learning path. Answer-based activities and labs count as exercises; assessments are separate. Repeated activities in a learning path count once.