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SOC Analyst L1

Detect, triage, and respond to security incidents in real time.

SOC Analysts are the first line of defence in a security operations center. You'll spend your days inside a SIEM, correlating alerts, hunting for indicators of compromise, and escalating real threats to L2 / IR.

Tools in scope

SplunkElastic / KibanaSentinelCrowdStrike FalconWireshark

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// Sample question

Walk me through how you'd triage a Splunk alert for a successful login from an impossible-travel location.

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Confirm the source and destination IPs and geolocation, check whether the user has an active VPN session, correlate with VPN logs and MFA history, look for downstream behaviour (mailbox-rule changes, OAuth grants), then either close as benign-VPN or escalate to IR with a containment recommendation.

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