The most realistic, hands-on way to build career-changing cybersecurity skills.
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Getting better during the Weekend 👏
This is the kind of thing that separates true Defenders 🛡️
How do you actually solve a Security Operations lab?
I put together a quick walkthrough using a DefendTheOrg lab, from reading the alert to investigating logs, selecting the right evidence, and making the final triage decision.
If you're trying to build practical SOC skills, this is the kind of practice you should be doing.
Learn. Investigate. Make decisions. Build proof.
Try it yourself 👇
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Your SIEM is showing you thousands of events.
Now imagine your manager asks:
“Find every failed login from this IP in the last 24 hours.”
This is where knowing SQL becomes useful.
Cybersecurity generates a ridiculous amount of data. Knowing how to ask that data the right questions is a skill every aspiring SOC analyst should build.
@defendtheorg has a SQL Basics path where you can start practising this from the ground up.
Stop treating SQL as a “developer skill.”
It’s a data investigation skill too.
Since we just dropped a new skill yesterday with 6 NEW LABS - We won't be dropping a new lab like we normally do on Thursdays.
Those new Purple Team labs should keep you plenty busy for now.
Keep the Org safe 🛡️
🟦 ITS TIME TO UNDERSTAND BOTH SIDES 🟥
Purple Teaming is an exercise that brings the Red Team and the Blue Team together with a shared goal: Improve the Security Posture of the Org.
The 10th skill is live NOW - Give it a shot, at DefendTheOrg 🛡️
The Gautlet has just REFRESHED ✊⏲️
Go test your cybersecurity knowledge with 10 random questions and defeat the Threat Actor, Null.
Available to challenge yourself for the entire week. GO GO GO!
The Week 8 Challenge 🔥🔥🔥
The network team reported that a workstation that has been generating an unusual amount of outbound HTTPS traffic during off-hours.
We need you to step in and investigate.
🚨 The Weekly Challenge is FREE to try on DefendTheOrg NOW 🚨
Defend The Org retweeted
Stop watching YouTube videos and answering generic cybersecurity questions.
Put those months of studying to the test.
Get your hands dirty. Investigate alerts, analyse logs, hunt threats, investigate suspicious activity, and work through real-world SOC analyst scenarios in practical labs.
Knowledge is good. But can you apply it when it matters?
Challenge yourself. Stop preparing forever and start practising.
CALLING ALL SOC ANALYSTS - NEW LAB ALERT 🚨
A shell was opened inside a live card-authorization pod early on a Wednesday morning.
We need you to investigate what happened and what the Org needs to do next.
LIVE NOW AT DTO 🛡️
🛡️ NEW COURSE: IAM BASICS
Identity is one of the most important and foundational parts of cybersecurity.
Build your foundation in Identity & Access Management and start thinking like a real security engineer.
Ready to level up? Check it out now.
🚨 TIME TO TEST YOUR DETECTION ENGINEERING SKILLS 🚨
THE WEEK 7 CHALLENGE IS HERE...
Identify PowerShell processes patterns that are commonly used by attackers to evade detection.
Available FREE - at DefendTheOrg.
🚨 NEW INCIDENT RESPONSE LAB - OPEN SECRET
Trace the attacker’s activity, cut off access, find what they left running, and get Brightwell back to safety.
Can you contain the breach? 🛡️
Still hungry for a challenge after yesterday’s Weekly Gauntlet?
The Daily Signal is here. 🛡️
Put your blue team skills to the test, sharpen your instincts, and build your skills one day at a time.
New day. New challenge. Every day on DTO.
💡 LIGHTS OUT 💡
This week, put your MITRE ATT&CK knowledge to the test with a new hands-on challenge.
Analyze the scenario. Identify the techniques. Test your knowledge.
➡️ Free accounts can participate, too.
Think you can solve it?
If you're logging in and studying cybersecurity after work today, ON A FRIDAY 😱 We see you and we salute you, Defender 🫡📈📈