SOC Fundamentals: SIEM, Log Analysis, and Alert Triage

<p>A story-driven introduction to security operations: how SOC analyst tiers divide the work, how a SIEM ingests, normalizes, and correlates logs from many sources, how to triage real alerts—failed logins, malware detections, unusual network traffic—and tell true positives from false positives, how to tune correlation rules to cut noise, and how to escalate and hand off confirmed incidents to incident response.</p>

Tools: SIEM, log analysis, SOC operations