🛡️ SOC Skills & Labs

🧰 Analyst Guides & Blog Series 🧰 SOC Tools & Automation Work smarter with Splunk, Wireshark, Sysmon, Python, Regex, and other SOC tools. Share dashboards, scripts, playbooks, and automation tips to streamline real‑world workflows. 🚨 Detection & Hunting Hone your threat‑hunting and alert‑tuning skills. Discuss MITRE mapping, correlation rules, pivot techniques, and proactive hunt queries—post examples, code snippets, and findings here. 📥 Real Threats Weekly Dive into CyberSec Steve’s “Real Threats → SOC Skills” series. Each week you’ll get a breakdown of a live threat (phishing, ransomware, etc.) plus challenge questions—use this space to post your analysis, detection logic, and lessons learned. 🧪 Hands-On Challenges Solve practical SOC tasks—PCAPs, log parsing, alert triage, and live investigations. Use this space to share your solutions, ask for help, and discuss best practices with peers. 📚 SOC Resource Vault Build your blue team toolbox with curated SOC‑only resources: TryHackMe labs, CTF lists, cheat sheets, and free SOC courses. Contribute new links, scripts, and materials for everyone’s benefit.

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About the 🛡️ SOC Skills & Labs category 🛡️ SOC Skills & Labs	7	July 12, 2025
Cybersecurity Books 📚 SOC Resource Vault redteam , resources , blueteam , resource , book , soc , reading	743	September 23, 2023
🎯 Real Threats → SOC Skills #1: DocuSign Phish, Redirect Chains, Detection Drill 📥 Real Threats Weekly soc_skills_weekly , threats-to-soc-skill	44	July 6, 2025
SOC Threat Deep Dive: Learning Series Tracker 📥 Real Threats Weekly learning , challenge , gold , career-growth , soc , real_threats_soc , live_series , soc-threat-deepdive , threats-to-soc-skill	74	July 2, 2025
🎯 Real Threats → SOC Skills #2: Ransomware Surge, Spyware Leaks, and Phishing QR Codes 📥 Real Threats Weekly soc_skills_weekly , threats-to-soc-skill	35	July 7, 2025
🔎 Real Threats → SOC Skills Weekly: Series Tracker 📥 Real Threats Weekly learning , career-growth , career , soc_skills_weekly , threats , threats-to-soc-skill	64	July 6, 2025
🌐 An Analysis of the Israel-Palestine Conflict from a Cybersecurity Perspective, October 2023 🧰 Analyst Guides & Blog Series official , blog , threatintelligence , blueteam , cyberwar , israel , palestine , threat-intel	809	November 5, 2023
🎄 December Cybersecurity Challenges: A Festive Way to Enhance Your Skills 🧪 Hands-On Challenges challenge , hacking , ctf , sans , redteam , blueteam , christmas , coding , tryhackme , adventofcode , official , career-growth	409	December 1, 2023
🔐 Digital Privacy in the Modern Age: Taking Control of Your Footprint 🧰 Analyst Guides & Blog Series official , blog , privacy , pii , personaldata	821	September 7, 2023
🛡️ How to Save Your SOC from Stagnation: Lessons from Carson Zimmerman’s SANS Blue Team Summit 2023 Keynote 🧰 Analyst Guides & Blog Series blog , official , sans , blueteam , soc , security-operations , detections , detectionengineering	499	September 24, 2023
Mastering Passive Reconnaissance: Top 20 techniques for Ethical Information Gathering (Part 2) 🧰 Analyst Guides & Blog Series blog , official , redteam , blueteam , recon , reconnaissance , passive , offsec	1137	October 8, 2023
Mastering Passive Reconnaissance: Top 20 techniques for Ethical Information Gathering (Part 1) 🧰 Analyst Guides & Blog Series blog , pentesting , redteam , blueteam , recon , reconnaissance , osint , passive , intel , offsec	2025	September 28, 2023
Storm-0558 🚨 Detection & Hunting china , storm-0558 , espionage , unauthorizedemailacc , credentialharvesting , oauthattacks , phishing , webshells , microsoftsecurity , threat-intel	470	September 8, 2023
Israel-Palestine conflict - Telegram Channels (Warning 18+) 📚 SOC Resource Vault threat-intelligence , threat-intel , cybersecurity , israel , palestine , conflict , news	1555	October 11, 2023
🔍 Why We Should Keep an Eye on Crash Dumps: Lessons from Microsoft’s Storm-0558 Incident 🧰 Analyst Guides & Blog Series storm-0558 , blog , official , threatintelligence , microsoft , dmp , dump , email , threat-intel	562	September 9, 2023
🌐 An Analysis of the Israel-Palestine Conflict from a Cybersecurity Perspective, November 2023 🧰 Analyst Guides & Blog Series threatintel , official , threatintelligence , redteam , soc , blueteam , cyberwar , israel , palestine , threat-intel	637	December 1, 2023
🌍 Cyber Conflict Analysis: Israel-Palestine 2023 (Master Thread) 📚 SOC Resource Vault threatintelligence , threatactors , threat , threat-intel , cybersecurity , war , cyberwar , official , blog , threat-intelligence	1303	October 13, 2023
🛡️ Final Call: 10 Cybersecurity Black Friday/ Cyber Monday Deals You Don't Want to Miss! 🌐 📚 SOC Resource Vault courses , blackfriday , deals , sale	427	November 28, 2023
🛡️ Black Friday 2023 Cybersecurity Deals: Courses, Tools, and Certifications 🌐 📚 SOC Resource Vault courses , blackfriday , deals , sale	519	November 23, 2023
Empowering Young Minds: Exploring the Digital World Safely and Enjoyably 🧰 Analyst Guides & Blog Series notable , cybersecurity , crushseckids , kids , children , infosec	413	December 10, 2023
[Poster] OSCP Windows Tools 📚 SOC Resource Vault cheatsheet , resource , oscp , tools , official , poster , windows	478	September 13, 2023
Passive Reconnaissance Tools [Masterlist] 📚 SOC Resource Vault cheatsheet , tools , resources , resource , recon , reconnaissance , passive , offsec	1714	September 30, 2023
Red Team Tools [Master] 📚 SOC Resource Vault redteam , oscp , tools , official , resources , pentesting , enumeration , web , password , privesc , exploitation , offsec	676	September 13, 2023
Cybersecurity Podcasts! 📚 SOC Resource Vault resources , resource , podcast , podcasts , listen	653	September 14, 2023
The Analyst Toolkit: Part 1 – Malware & IOC Feeds 🧰 Analyst Guides & Blog Series threat-intel , malware , advanced , soc , blog , blueteam , ioc , url , domain	131	May 1, 2025
🛡️ Simple Steps to Avoid Dangerous Links (No Tech Know-How Required) - Part 1 🧰 Analyst Guides & Blog Series blog , url , virus , everyone , website	67	May 3, 2025
Cyber and News Resource Hub for the Israel-Palestine Conflict 📚 SOC Resource Vault resources , israel , palestine , war , cyberwar , hamas , threat-intel	445	November 2, 2023
Cybersecurity RSS Feeds 📚 SOC Resource Vault resources , news , resource , blogs , rss	1828	May 4, 2025
The Analyst Toolkit: Part 2 – URL Analysis 🛡️ 🧰 Analyst Guides & Blog Series recon , passive , analyst , soc , blog , website , browser , browserling , urlscan , investigate	111	May 7, 2025
🔎 Investigation & Threat Analysis Tools 📚 SOC Resource Vault osint , resources , malware , resource , url , virus	55	May 2, 2025