“Jump-start Your SOC Analyst Career: A Roadmap to Cybersecurity Success” 2nd Edition by Tyler Wall, Cyber NOW Education
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"Jump-start Your SOC Analyst Career: A Roadmap to Cybersecurity Success" 2nd Edition by Tyler Wall, Cyber NOW Education
Additional Info
| Company | Cyber NOW Education |
| Website | http://www.cybernoweducation.com |
| Company size (employees) | 1 to 9 |
| Headquarters Region | North America |
Overview
A transition to a security operations center (SOC) analyst position is 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 the reader for interview preparation, tackling day one on the job, and setting long-term development goals. This book highlights personal stories from six SOC professionals at various career levels with keen advice that is immediately applicable to their own journey. The gems of knowledge shared in this book provides the reader with a notable advantage for entering this dynamic field of work.
This revised edition includes three entirely new chapters: The SOC Analyst Method, ChatGPT for SOC Analysts, and Roadmap to Cybersecurity. In addition, new material includes substantially revised cloud, pre-requisite skills, and areas of expertise chapters, as well as minor revisions to all chapters to update and refresh data.
Key Capabilities / Features
What You Will Learn In This Book
- 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 tool 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
- Be inspired by six stories of SOC analysts who have recently traversed the path just like you will
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.
How we are different
- The book is the product of 10 authors who are professionals in the field thus this book is not myopic in view. One author, one coauthor, two chapter authors and six SOC story writers add to the depth of expertise.
- The book is a book of strategy and technical skills. You will learn not only how to break into cybersecurity, but also the technical skills that you will need to do the SOC analyst job on day one. Including networking skills, terminology, what tools you'll be using, system administration, even how to conduct a security analysis are covered in the book. While other books teach you how to work on you resume, or how to conduct a job hunt in cybersecurity, this book is holistic in nature covering all those topics plus how-to-do-the-job. Also included in this book are quizzes after each chapter and an exam that you can take to earn a certification to share with your networks you are ready to Jump-start Your SOC Analyst Career.
- This book is backed by a reputable publisher Apress (Springer Nature) and the company Cyber NOW Education. It is presented in a professional manner than can be consumed in PDF, Kindle, and print versions. The expert typeset and copyediting of the book leaves readers with a seamless feel because the authors of the book speak in one resonate tone throughout all the pages.
