Fresh Grad Employee Checklist

1. Understanding of SOC tiers & responsibilities

2. Threat Hunting Basics

3. Data Correlation

4. Technical Report Writing

5. Windows Excel basics

6. Incident Response Basics

7. Networking basics

7.1. Switch/routers (Basic familiarity of networking appliances)

7.2. DMZ

7.3. Proxy

7.3.1. Reverse proxy

7.4. Top Ports

7.5. Firewall

7.5.1. Firewall rules basics

7.6. Top services/protocols

7.7. Natting

7.7.1. Source/destination natting

7.8. Web Application Firewall

7.8.1. Http requests

7.8.1.1. Status codes

7.8.2. OWASP Top 10

7.9. Log types

7.9.1. Perimeter devices logs

7.9.1.1. VPN

7.9.1.2. FW

7.9.1.3. IDS/IPS

7.9.1.4. WAF

7.9.2. Windows Events Logs

7.9.3. Proxy Logs

7.9.4. Endpoint Logs

7.9.5. Application logs

7.10. OSI 7 layers

7.10.1. TCP/IP model

8. Phish Email Analysis

9. OSINT

10. Malware Basics

11. What is a SIEM (security information and event management)

11.1. Flow of logs to the SIEM

11.1.1. SIEM Solutions training

11.1.1.1. Splunk

11.1.1.2. Logrythem

11.1.1.3. Qradar

11.1.1.4. Arcsight

12. Network Attacks

12.1. Top Protocols Attacks

12.1.1. Known tools