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How defenders actually work. SOC structure, SIEM, detection engineering, EDR, and malware triage.

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Blue Team / SOC Operations Advanced Free

Module 20 · Purple Team — Operationalising Adversary Emulation

Red vs purple — what differs Red team Purple team Adversary emulation, blue blind Adversary emulation, blue collaborating Goal: demonstrate impact Goal: improve detection Output: detailed report; blue may not see techniques used Output: detection rules + visibility-gap remediation Annual or quarterly engagement Continuous or monthly cadence The purple-team operating model Red team executes a […]

May 14, 2026 35 min Open
Blue Team / SOC Operations Advanced Free

Module 17 · Threat Hunting Operationalised — Hypotheses, Pivots, Dashboards

What threat hunting is Proactive search for adversary presence based on hypothesis, not alert. The defender assumes a sophisticated attacker may already be present and searches for traces that current detection rules would miss. The hunt cycle Hypothesis: state what you’re looking for. “Adversaries may be using WMI for lateral movement.” Data sources: identify what […]

May 14, 2026 35 min Open
Blue Team / SOC Operations Advanced Free

Module 18 · Detection Engineering — Sigma, ATT&CK Coverage, Validation

What detection engineering is Design rules that fire on adversary behaviour, not noise. Test rules against historical data and red-team data. Tune to acceptable signal-to-noise. Deploy with documentation. Maintain — update when adversary techniques evolve. The detection-engineering lifecycle Source: hunt finding, TI report, red-team exercise, ATT&CK coverage gap. Hypothesis: state what the rule should catch. […]

May 14, 2026 35 min Open
Blue Team / SOC Operations Advanced Free

Module 16 · SOAR — Security Orchestration, Automation, Response

What SOAR does Orchestration: connect security tools via API; trigger actions across them. Automation: execute repeatable workflows without human intervention. Case management: structured incident workflow with audit trail. Playbook execution: pre-defined response runbooks triggered by alert type. The platforms Splunk SOAR (formerly Phantom), Palo Alto XSOAR (Demisto), IBM QRadar SOAR, Microsoft Sentinel SOAR, Tines, Torq. […]

May 14, 2026 35 min Open
Blue Team / SOC Operations Advanced Free

Module 14 · Threat Intelligence Operations

Why this module exists. Threat intelligence is one of the most-purchased and least-utilised security investments. Companies subscribe to feeds that nobody reads, vendor reports that nobody actions. Done well, TI shapes detection, prioritisation, and strategy. Done badly, it’s expensive noise. The three altitudes of TI Type Audience Outputs Cadence Strategic Executives, board Threat landscape, risk-driven […]

Apr 27, 2026 30 min Open
Blue Team / SOC Operations Advanced Free

Module 15 · Purple Teaming Methodology

Why this module exists. Red teams find what defenders missed. Blue teams build detections. Purple teams put both in the same room — making a single exercise simultaneously a test, a learning event, and a detection-engineering session. The output: detections that work for the techniques attackers actually use. What purple team isn’t Not “let’s all […]

Apr 27, 2026 30 min Open
Blue Team / SOC Operations Advanced Free

Module 7 · Incident Response Lifecycle — NIST + SANS in Practice

Why this module exists. Every CISO knows the NIST IR lifecycle (Prepare, Identify, Contain, Eradicate, Recover, Lessons Learned). Few have actually executed it under pressure. The translation from textbook diagram to “the breach is happening, what do we do at 02:30 IST” is what separates exercises from outcomes. The lifecycle in operational terms Phase What […]

Apr 27, 2026 35 min Open
Blue Team / SOC Operations Advanced Free

Module 10 · Insider Threat Detection

Why this module exists. External attackers get the headlines; insiders cause more breaches by volume. Verizon DBIR consistently shows ~20% of breaches are insider-driven (deliberate + accidental combined). Detecting them requires different signals from external-attack detection, and operating in the privacy-respecting envelope DPDP / labour law / cultural norms allow. The insider-threat taxonomy Malicious insider […]

Apr 27, 2026 30 min Open
Blue Team / SOC Operations Advanced Members

Module 5 · Malware Triage

Static + behavioural triage, sandbox workflow, 30-minute triage playbook, and when to escalate to a reverse engineer.

Apr 22, 2026 120 min Open
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