actual day in the life of a SOC (cybersecurity) analyst

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[CatJ]

You have no idea how thankful and fortunate I am that you made this video. You are amazing! You explained everything so well and still gave an idea what is involved on a day to day basis without showing any private information. I am in the process of trying to do what you are doing and this was so helpful! Please make more videos like this! Thanks again! 🙏

[SupportSquirrel]

As a Security Analyst on Incident Response I can say we also do a lot of this on our lower tiers with Alert Monitoring. Though the tools may differ, the processes for finding and reviewing evidence and the thought processes and methods behind it don't change. It gets much easier with experience :)

[NorthernDownpourss]

Thank you for the information and insight as a SOC analyst. Not boring at all and I 100% agree that it's much better than dealing with end users in helpdesk/service desk jobs. I got my first experience in helpdesk to get my foot in the door in IT/Tech and god it is soul sucking. It's like being butterbot from rick and morty. "What is my purpose?" "You reset passwords." "oh god.." lol

[Sympken]

I just wanna say that you have officially made me decide that cyber security is what I want to do. I love the investigative work involved and you can easily tell how you break it down in a certain pathway. I can’t thank you enough brother, definitely a sub from me!

[Atned]

Graduating soon out of school for cybersecurity, and it's good to know that a lot of what we were taught is going to be used exactly the way we were taught. Great information on the day-to-day stuff, it really puts my mind at ease! I really hope the job is as chill as you describe it because my current job is stressful enough as it is lol

[daneeee]

One of the few accurate day in the life soc work. sweet and concise. Good job!

[sam-swzw]

as a mid level support engineer this is awesome. I feel like this is an accurate summation of your job. thanks for sharing.

[seclilc]

I was a pentester for a year and I feel like this type of day to day may be more up my speed. Thank you for sharing your perspective

[Themoralofthestory.]

This is actually really helpful, it gives me the confidence to keep going for a SOC position as alot of what you described i know how to do. Thank you.

[yuvalavrum]

I’m in school right now for cyber security, and this was *really* helpful, thank you!

[mattjackson]

This is a beautifully succinct example of dealing with a real-word incident. Wish more creators were this efficient with information.

[tom-zlqj]

my mans playing fury warrior while writing his ticket. What a g.

[OMG.IM.CODING]

This video was posted 11 months ago and I can't thank you enough for it! I'm making a complete career change but only because I can finally have the flexibility (time), to put in the effort! I've been challenged with making the choice of which pathway in Cybersecurity to take and you have made SOC fun to watch and motivating for me to pursue!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH! Do you have any videos to show the pathways to getting into, and becoming a SOC Analyst? #sothankful

[KingLeoAudio]

Great video. I just got promoted to this role. Had no idea wtf id be doing, the video helped as we also use Crowdstrike

[synos]

Love the wow details addons while answering a thicket. My man.

[amgriff]

Dude this is GOLDEN!!!!

You will have a million subscribers in no time if you keep this up. Much love ❤

[MrFiendyBob]

I am a SOC analyst myself, I find in doing many alerts, you can kinda feel if it’s malicious or not from the beginning of just the details provided.
Ofcourse you have to do more research to make sure you are correct.
Also malware analysis is fun to do if you have free time!

[carbon_root]

I appreciate you showing us this, as I'm also getting into cyber security and all that😖 what right seems to me overwhelming at the moment... You got a sub from me so please continue making more awesome educating videos🤙and again thank you.

[cahz]

More examples this is amazing. I'm starting my first soc analyst position and I love this

[allmightfan]

I just got into school for comptia and security+ thanks for clearing my head I’m more motivated to study now ❤