Security Operations Centre and SIEM Monitoring Training Course (Online / Remote)
1Summary
A SOC analyst who has to triage three hundred alerts a shift will eventually start clicking through them on autopilot – and that is exactly the moment a real intrusion slips past unnoticed. Alert fatigue, not a lack of tools, is one of the most common reasons security monitoring fails in practice. The Security Operations Centre and SIEM Monitoring Training Course tackles that problem directly, building the judgement analysts need to separate a genuine threat from routine noise before it becomes a missed incident.
From there the programme works through how a SOC actually operates day to day: how SIEM platforms collect and correlate logs from across the enterprise, how detection use cases get designed and tuned, how Splunk is used operationally rather than just described in theory, and how an event moves from a triaged alert to a documented investigation to a properly escalated incident. It closes with how organisations measure and continuously improve SOC performance, so monitoring capability keeps pace with a changing threat environment.
2Objectives and target group
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Triage security alerts efficiently, distinguishing meaningful incidents from low-risk or irrelevant events.
- Explain how SOC functions and SIEM technology work together to provide enterprise security visibility.
- Identify the main sources of security logs and apply effective principles for log correlation.
- Use Splunk operationally for security searches, dashboards, and monitoring workflows.
- Develop and tune SIEM use cases aligned with real organisational risks.
- Investigate a security alert by gathering sufficient context before escalating it.
- Apply incident escalation procedures based on severity, ownership, and predefined criteria.
- Reduce alert fatigue while maintaining appropriate visibility over lower-priority activity.
- Support consistent documentation of security events, investigations, and escalation decisions.
- Review SOC performance indicators and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
Target Audience
- SOC analysts, cybersecurity analysts, and SIEM administrators.
- Security engineers and network security professionals.
- IT security managers and security operations managers.
- Incident response, cloud security, and IT infrastructure professionals with monitoring responsibilities.
- Risk, compliance, and internal audit professionals reviewing security monitoring processes.
- Organisations establishing, expanding, or standardising their SOC capabilities.
3Course Content
Module 1: Why Alert Fatigue Is a SOC’s Biggest Enemy
- How high alert volumes lead to missed detections.
- Alert triage, severity classification, and contextual analysis.
- Reducing duplicate notifications and incomplete context.
Module 2: What a Security Operations Centre Actually Does
- SOC responsibilities, operating models, and team structures.
- The relationship between analysts, engineers, and incident responders.
- Procedures that support consistency and accountability.
Module 3: Inside SIEM Architecture – From Raw Logs to Insight
- How SIEM platforms collect, process, and store security events.
- Common log sources: network devices, endpoints, applications, cloud services.
- Log quality, consistency, and relevance to monitoring requirements.
Module 4: Correlating Events to See the Real Picture
- Log correlation as a core SIEM capability.
- Connecting isolated events into a broader security incident.
- Analysing timestamps, user activity, and authentication events.
Module 5: Detecting Threats Across Endpoints, Network and Cloud
- Behavioural indicators and abnormal access patterns.
- Detection requirements across identities, networks, and cloud environments.
- Keeping detection capabilities current with evolving attack techniques.
Module 6: Splunk in Practice – Searching, Dashboards and Investigation
- Searching and analysing security data in Splunk.
- Building dashboards and monitoring workflows.
- Using Splunk to support investigation activities.
Module 7: Designing Use Cases That Actually Catch Something
- Aligning SIEM use cases with defined organisational risks.
- Scenarios: suspicious authentication, privilege misuse, data exposure.
- Defining detection logic, data sources, and expected analyst response.
Module 8: From Alert to Investigation – Analysing Security Incidents
- Establishing sufficient context to confirm a genuine incident.
- Event timelines, user activity, and related security records.
- Documentation requirements for consistent investigation records.
Module 9: Escalating the Right Incidents to the Right People
- Escalation criteria, severity, and ownership.
- Transferring events to incident response, infrastructure, or management.
- Escalation documentation and communication without unnecessary delay.
Module 10: Measuring, Governing and Improving SOC Performance
- Operational indicators: alert volumes, investigation workload, detection coverage.
- Governance frameworks, monitoring standards, and continuous review.
- Aligning SOC and SIEM activity with organisational security objectives.