Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.
Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.
Security Operations Center
This course presents essential skills required within a security operations center (SOC) to successfully protect organizational assets from cyber-attacks and addresses how attackers are identified. Coursework is designed to help students learn about the different types of SOCs and their respective goals, roles, benefits and challenges.
Provider Information
DeVry University
1200 E. Diehl Road
Naperville, IL 60563
Course Overview
SEC290
4225 Naperville Road, Suite 400
Lisle, IL 60532
Learning Objectives
- Students learn to understand the fundamental security capabilities necessary for an effective security operations center (SOC), explain key procedures and security tools that ensure SOC operational effectiveness, synthesize the components of SOC services to understand their collective impact on the success of SOC operations, evaluate the effectiveness of centralized data management in improving the SOC operation capabilities and enhancing risk and compliance management decisions, appraise the different categories of threat intelligence and evaluate the incident response lifecycle following a security incident, assess the vulnerability management process and integrate data orchestration techniques with security practices, and explore the outlook of SOC operations on the evolving scope and capabilities such as machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Framework Connections
The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):
Competency Areas
Feedback
If you would like to provide feedback on this course, please e-mail the NICCS team at NICCS@mail.cisa.dhs.gov. Please keep in mind that NICCS does not own this course or accept payment for course entry. If you have questions related to the details of this course, such as cost, prerequisites, how to register, etc., please contact the course training provider directly. You can find course training provider contact information by following the link that says “Visit course page for more information...” on this page.