Monitoring security alerts: understanding negatives, false/positives, and if positive alert know how to respond to that alert. Analysis and investigation of security alert experience is required.
Threat detection and hunting
Incident response
Monitor and analyze security logs
Scripting to set up detection alerts: creating rules or alerts for investigating
KQL, Python (to automate alerts), SQL, Powershell, Linux (any flavor)
More experience is higher priority over certificates
GitHub or portfolio of projects: detection rule set up, scripting, or data science
Bachelors Degree
Responsibilities :
Incident alerts, prioritizing threats, looking at phishing email analysis and responding.
20% monitoring alerts, 30% incident response, but when threat immediate high threat 100% of day.
Threat hunting, monitoring and responding
Automation will be key here: setting up good policies in place, setting up strong alerts, setting up good detection.
Most common threats:
Malware detection
Brute force attack: when attacker is trying to log in to multiple devices at once by trying to guess passwords
Session token attacking
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