Once your foundations and hands-on practice improve, you can begin exploring tools commonly used in SOC environments.

At this stage, you are learning how analysts:

• Monitor alerts
• Investigate activity
• Document incidents
• Identify suspicious behavior

Do not pressure yourself to learn every tool immediately.

The goal is understanding workflows and learning how analysts think during investigations.

Recommended Focus Areas

• SIEM Basics
• Splunk Introduction
• Alert Triage
• Incident Documentation
• Threat Investigation Workflow