So you want to be a SOC Analyst? 2.0

A revamp of the original SYWTBSA blog series, made much easier with cloud-hosted VMs. All you need is a web browser!

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What’s this about?

For those familiar with my free series, So You Want to be a SOC Analyst? — this is version 2.0 which follows the same path as the original but features fully cloud-hosted VMs which have been preconfigured for this lab. This saves a lot of time on setup, and removes any requirement for running VMs locally which is difficult or impossible for some users.

How does it work?

Simply register for the pay-what-you-can course, and everything you need will be accessible in your web browser.

What will I need to have in order to do this lab?

A web browser, that’s it!

How is this different than the original, free SYWTBSA?

The primary difference is that the original series required you to download and setup two virtual machines. This is becoming more difficult for participants without powerful systems for running VMs, or those on ARM-type CPUs (Mac M1/M2). Now, you don’t have to download anything, and can connect to a cloud-hosted VM.

The other difference is that I have modified and improved several steps of the original labs to add some interesting new techniques… So there will be slight differences in the lab content itself.

Why is this a paid course when the original series was free?

Primarily because 2.0 requires use of VMs running in the cloud which incur real costs for me. Also, it takes real time to continue supporting students working through the series and keeping the labs up to date. I try to make most of my beginner content free.

I want to give it a try!

Great! Click the button below to register.