EC-Council SOC Essentials (SCE)
SOC Essentials (SCE) is designed for individuals who want to start a career in cybersecurity or move into security-operations roles. The course covers the foundational knowledge needed for Security Operations Center (SOC) tasks.
Description
SOC Essentials (SCE) is designed for individuals who want to start a career in cybersecurity or move into security-operations roles. The course covers the foundational knowledge needed for Security Operations Center (SOC) tasks. You will learn computer network fundamentals, basic security principles, how a SOC is organised and operated, logging and monitoring, incident detection, threat intelligence basics, incident response, and log management. SCE is beginner-friendly — no prior IT or cybersecurity background is required. The training includes practical labs and a capstone project to simulate real-world SOC tasks.
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What You Will Learn
The SOC Essentials (SCE) course gives you a practical introduction to cybersecurity operations. It covers the fundamental knowledge and skills needed to work in a Security Operations Center, including monitoring, detection, log management and basic incident response.
Part 1: Computer Network and Security Fundamentals, including core networking concepts, network types, basic protocols and foundational security principles
Part 2: Fundamentals of Cyber Threats, covering common attack types, malware, vulnerabilities, threat actors and typical intrusion techniques
Part 3: Introduction to Security Operations Centers, explaining SOC roles, structure, responsibilities and daily workflows
Part 4: SOC Components and Architecture, including technologies, processes and data sources used inside a SOC, as well as SIEM concepts and deployment basics
Part 5: Introduction to Log Management, focusing on collecting, storing and interpreting logs from different systems and applications
Part 6: Incident Detection and Analysis, covering alert triage, event correlation, analysing suspicious activity and documenting initial findings
Part 7: Threat Intelligence and Hunting, introducing threat-intelligence concepts, data sources and basic threat-hunting techniques used to identify early indicators of compromise
Part 8: Incident Response and Handling, including identification, containment, eradication, recovery and post-incident improvement steps within the SOC workflow
Certification & Exam
After you complete the SOC Essentials training, you can take the SCE certification exam. The exam checks your understanding of core SOC concepts, including networking basics, cyber threats, log management, monitoring, threat intelligence and the fundamentals of incident response.
The exam consists of multiple choice questions delivered through an EC-Council approved online testing platform. EC-Council uses a cut-score method to determine the passing score, which means the exact percentage may vary depending on the difficulty of the exam version.
There are no prerequisites to sit for the exam, making it suitable for beginners or anyone who wants to move into a SOC or security-operations role. Once you pass, you receive the SCE certificate, confirming that you understand the foundational skills required to operate effectively in a modern Security Operations Center.
What You Will Achieve
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
understand core networking concepts and basic security principles used in SOC environments
identify common cyber threats, attack types and early indicators of compromise
explain how a Security Operations Center works, including roles, processes and tools
collect, interpret and manage logs from different systems to support monitoring and detection
analyse alerts, correlate events and document initial findings during security investigations
use basic threat intelligence concepts to recognise attacker behaviour and enhance detection efforts
support incident response activities, including identification, containment and recovery steps
apply foundational SOC procedures that prepare you for more advanced security-operations roles
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