Modern security operations demand more than alert triage and runbook execution. Threat actors blend into normal traffic, adapt their techniques constantly, and evade signature-based detection. The SOC analyst who follows only a playbook is perpetually behind. XSOC is built for professionals who want to operate at the front edge of detection, hunting proactively, engineering better alerts, and producing intelligence that informs strategic decisions.
Across six instructor-led days, participants build capability across the complete SOC lifecycle: platform operations across Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and Elastic, detection engineering with Sigma and YARA, alert triage and investigation workflows, endpoint and cloud telemetry analysis, threat hunting methodology, and cyber threat intelligence integration. Every session uses real adversary behaviour drawn from current threat actor profiles and MITRE ATT&CK v14.
On Day 6, participants lead a live supervised hunt exercise against a simulated enterprise environment seeded with real threat actor behaviour. The senior practitioner observes methodology and assesses the intelligence report submitted. Certificate and Practitioner Assessment Report issued together. Aligned with MITRE ATT&CK v14, NCSC CAF Objective C, NIST CSF 2.0 Detect, UK DDaT Cyber Security job family, GovAssure, SOC-CMM, NIS2, and DORA.
