Security monitoring
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Operates SIEM and detection tooling to spot suspicious activity.
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Security
Cybersecurity Analyst
Monitors, detects, and responds to security threats across an organization's systems and networks.
Skill coverage
100%
Course coverage
85%
Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped.
- Role skills
- 8
- Published coverage
- 8
- Relevant courses
- 28
Capability map
Skills
Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog.
01
Detection and response
4 capabilities
Incident response
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Triages, contains, and remediates security incidents methodically.
Threat intelligence
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Tracks attacker techniques and applies them to defensive priorities.
Course coverage
Digital forensics
Importance: Important (3 of 5)
Collects and analyzes evidence to reconstruct security events.
Course coverage
02
Security foundations
4 capabilities
Network security
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Understands protocols, segmentation, and network attack surfaces.
Vulnerability management
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Identifies, prioritizes, and tracks remediation of weaknesses.
Course coverage
- Vulnerability Management
- Security Patch Management, Security Risk Management (planned)
Identity and access
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Reviews authentication, authorization, and privilege hygiene.
Security frameworks
Importance: Important (3 of 5)
Applies standards and compliance frameworks to assess posture.
Course coverage
- CIS Controls
- Cybersecurity FundamentalsFree
- GDPR for Technology Teams
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- PCI DSS
- ISO/IEC 27001, Security Controls (planned)
Learning path
Relevant courses
Core foundations
The concepts this role is built on.
- Network Security
- Security Incident Response
- Threat Intelligence
- Vulnerability Management
- Security Monitoring (planned)
Supporting knowledge
Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.
- Attack Surface Management
- CIS Controls
- Cybersecurity FundamentalsFree
- Data Loss Prevention
- Denial-of-Service Defense
- Email Security
- Endpoint Detection and Response
- Firewalls
- GDPR for Technology Teams
- Identity and Access Management Fundamentals
- Intrusion Detection and Prevention
- Malware Analysis Fundamentals
- Multi-Factor Authentication
- Network Detection and Response
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- PCI DSS
- Privileged Access Management
- Ransomware Defense
- Security Information and Event Management
- Security Operations Fundamentals
- Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response
- Splunk Fundamentals
- Threat Hunting
- ISO/IEC 27001, Security Controls, Security Patch Management, Security Risk Management (planned)
Specializations
Deeper paths for particular environments or directions.
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