Resecurity® Certified SOC Operations Manager (RCSOM)
Learn to design, run and improve a security operations centre.
About this course
Learn to design, run and improve a security operations centre. Over four days of management workshops you will shape an operating model, plan staffing and shifts, build triage and escalation workflows and set a detection strategy grounded in real threats.
You will evaluate SIEM, SOAR and threat intelligence architecture, coordinate with response, intelligence and fraud teams, and choose metrics that show real performance. Case studies and a capstone prepare you for the RCSOM credential and for reporting to senior leaders.
What you'll learn
- Design a SOC operating model that fits the organisation's risk and resources.
- Define roles, staffing levels and shift patterns, and plan for analyst retention.
- Build triage, escalation and case management workflows.
- Shape a threat-informed detection strategy.
- Evaluate SIEM, SOAR, threat intelligence and wider tooling architecture.
- Coordinate the SOC with DFIR, CTI, fraud and IT teams.
- Set KPIs, SLAs, risk indicators and maturity measures, and judge analyst workload.
- Report SOC performance to senior management and plan an improvement roadmap.
Curriculum
- In-house, outsourced and hybrid models
- Mission, scope and services
- Aligning the SOC with business risk
- Governance and ownership
- Roles and tiers
- Shift design and coverage
- Skills development and career paths
- Preventing analyst burnout
- Triage and escalation
- Case management
- Playbooks and runbooks
- Major incident handling
- Threat-informed priorities
- Use-case lifecycle
- Coverage mapping
- Measuring detection effectiveness
- SIEM and data strategy
- SOAR and automation
- CTI platforms
- Tool rationalisation
- Working with DFIR and CTI
- Fraud and security collaboration
- IT and business stakeholders
- Third parties and managed services
- KPIs, SLAs and KRIs
- Workload and quality measures
- Maturity models
- Avoiding misleading metrics
- Reporting to senior management
- Business cases for investment
- Transformation roadmaps
- Management capstone
Who it's for
SOC managers, team leaders, senior analysts and security operations leads stepping into management.
Before you start
- Experience working in or alongside security operations.
- Awareness of SIEM, SOAR, CTI and incident management processes.
Prepares for
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