Onyi's Course Recommendations

Microsoft Sentinel: The Complete Introduction Course in Azure by Pavel Hrabec

This course is good for those looking for precise knowledge on the following: creating and managing Microsoft Sentinel, including the creation of log analytics workspace. It also helps you explore how to work with incidents and workbooks, as well as how to use the platform'sanalytics rules, watchlists, and connectors to detect and respond to potential threats.

Microsoft Sentinel: Secure Azure Like a Pro by Pavel Hrabec

This course could provide a quick guide towards performing critical security engineering operations such as deploying analytics rules, workbooks, playbooks , and many more Microsoft Sentinel artifacts.

CrowdStrike for SOC Analysts by Hailie Shaw

CrowdStrike is one of the most popular Endpoint and Detection Response tools in the market mostly managed by SOC team in many organizations. The SOC team combines the detection capabilities of this tool with SIEM for more optimal security analysis and triage. The course CrowdStrike: For SOC Analysts is a non-affiliated CrowdStrike course that covers the essential basics for any Security Analysts to begin working with CrowdStrike in the following areas: create custom rules and policies, understand CrowdStrike fundamentals, analyze Endpoint Data, detect and investigate threats, console navigation and features, threat hunt in CrowdStrike.

Hashicorp Certified: Terraform Associate 2024 by Zeal Vora

As many organizations are moving towards the use of IaC tools to manage their infrastructures, many security teams are becoming more proactive towards the use of the same to manage analytic rules, logic apps, and other security operations and engineering tasks for the benefits it provides (for example transparency and error reduction). While the course does not directly focus on SOC operations, you will find this course useful for different Security Engineering operations. Examples include creating and deploying analytics rules, and log ingestion via code.

TryHackMe: SOC Level 1

The beauty of security analysis is the availability of its abundant resources on the internet, examples are BLT1, BLT2. The TryHackMe Learning Path SOC Level 1 provides essential background for Junior Security Analysts covering different areas: Cyber Defence Frameworks, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Network Security and Traffic Analysis, Endpoint Security Monitoring, Security Information and Event Management, and Phishing. This Learning though focuses more on the Windows environment ensures that Junior Security Analysts are able to monitor and investigate alerts, and triage security alerts/incidents.

Dim's Course Recommendations

Linux

Linux Journey: Linux journey is a course on... Linux, with small byte sized modules for each topic.

Over the Wire - Bandit: An intro level CTF collection that gradually teaches you how to set up the required commands in the CLI.

CISCO Networking Academy: There is a lot of great material in CISCO's Network Academy. This collection is focusing on Linux, with the very entry level courses being free.

Networking

Professor Messer: One of the most well known CompTIA certification courses creator has posted all of his Network+ course videos online.

Coding

1000 Devs: 100 Devs by Leon Noel is a 30 week bootcamp focusing on a zero to full stack web dev level path. The bootcamp is structured in such a way that it keeps you engaged with weekly course material, assignments and a supporting community that motivates you and keeps you accountable.

The Odin Project: This is a well known structured course on web development. The roadmap is well structured and elaborate, while still managing to teach you the most important skill of all: how to figure things out on your own.

Penetration testing

PortSwigger Academy: One of most elaborate web pentesting courses from the creators of Burp Suite.

TryHackMe: THM is a subscription based training platform covering multiple cybersecurity topics. However, there are still many well built free rooms. Here is a list, purely based on these free rooms arranged by topic.

TCM Academy: Another subscription based training platform, focusing on penetration testing. They have released a lot of their courses on their youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCyberMentor) which makes them a great source of free material.

APISec University: This platform is focusing on API security and penetration testing. All of their courses are of great content quality.

Pwned Labs: A cloud security training platform with blue team and red team interactive labs. Even if you avoid their subscription, there is still a lot of free labs to learn from and practice on.

Blue Team, OSINT and Threat Intelligence

Security Blue Team: A blue team and traffic analysis focused training platform with a small collection of free entry level courses focusing on investigation and analysis.