SOC Analyst Fundamentals: How to Get Hands-On Experience with a Live SIEM

Most SOC training runs on canned data. You already know what you're supposed to find before you open the SIEM. That's not what the job feels like.

Tonight, we work in a live Splunk environment fed by real internet attack traffic — hitting a live honeypot. Nothing staged, nothing simulated. Don't take our word for it: scan the honeypot yourself during the session and watch your own IP land in the SIEM within minutes.

🎯 What We'll Cover
- What a SOC analyst actually does — the tiers, the alert queue, and where you'd sit on day one
- Reading a real alert: true positive, false positive, and the disposition note your manager actually reads
- Live SPL — the handful of Splunk queries that do most of the work
- Scan the honeypot yourself and watch your traffic surface in the SIEM in real time

Cover6: First Watch is our free primer for SOC Analyst Prep. Tonight is the fundamentals; the course is where you go deep.

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