Here are the best FREE SOC analyst courses for beginners 👩🏻‍💻

Looking for beginner courses for SOC Analysts? I’ve got just the list for you.

The creators of the BTL1 certification have 6 free introduction courses covering threat hunting, vulnerability management, dark web operations, digital forensics, OSI, and network analysis.

As one of the largest cloud providers, Microsoft offers free training for their SC-200 certification, which covers triaging in Azure, responding to incidents, managing vulnerabilities, hunting for threats, and evaluating logs.

This is a great place to start to get some experience using an SIEM, which you’ll very likely need to know as an SOC Analyst.

LetsDefend provides free beginner training courses and modules for topics like SOC Fundamentals, phishing email analysis, Linux for blue team, and building a malware analysis lab! Highly recommended for beginners

You can never go wrong with learning networking, especially when it also covers security engineering and cloud engineering concepts. Juniper Networks Open Learning Program provides free training on all of these topics.

I hope these courses can be a helpful resource for you!

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