Macksofy SOC Analyst — Career Track (8 weeks)
Detect what attackers hope you'll miss.
Macksofy's career-grade SOC Analyst track. Job-ready in 8 weeks with hands-on Wazuh + ELK + Splunk, MITRE ATT&CK detection engineering, real incident response playbooks built from our own engagements. Many students take this alongside CSA / SOC-200 for credentialing.
What is Macksofy's SOC Analyst program?
A SOC Analyst monitors security telemetry, triages alerts, and responds to incidents in a Security Operations Center. Macksofy's SOC Analyst program is a job-focused, hands-on track on Wazuh, ELK, and Splunk with detection and triage labs, plus placement support, delivered in India.
Outcomes — concrete, measurable.
Every capability you walk away with, mapped to the cybersecurity domains and the career roles they unlock in India + UAE.
From day 1 to the 8 weeks · 80 hours including labs finish line.
- SKILL 01·Capability20% inOperate a SIEM (Wazuh, ELK, Splunk) end-to-end
- SKILL 02·Capability40% inWrite Sigma detection rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
- SKILL 03·Governance60% inTriage incidents using the SANS / NIST IR lifecycle
- SKILL 04·Capability80% inConduct basic threat hunting with hypothesis-driven searches
- SKILL 05·Capability100% inBe ready for SOC L1/L2 interviews at MSSPs, banks, large enterprises
Salary climbs with experience.
- 01SOC Analyst L10–1 years₹4–6 LPA
- 02SOC Analyst L21–3 years₹7–11 LPA
- 03Threat Hunter3–5 years₹12–18 LPA
- 04Detection Engineer3–5 years₹15–22 LPA
Is SOC Analyst Track right for you?
- IT / network admins moving into security operations
- Cybersecurity students and freshers targeting SOC roles
- DevOps engineers wanting blue-team depth
- CEH holders wanting the defensive flip-side
What we assume you know
- Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, common protocols)
- Basic Linux + Windows administration
- No prior security experience needed
8 modules. 80 hours including labs.
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- SOC tiers (L1/L2/L3)
- MITRE ATT&CK framework
- NIST CSF & incident response lifecycle
- Sysmon configuration (industry-standard ruleset)
- Windows event log essentials (4624, 4625, 4688, 4720)
- Linux audit logs, rsyslog, journald
- Wazuh manager + agent deployment
- ELK pipeline: Logstash filters, Elasticsearch index design
- Kibana dashboards for SOC metrics
- Custom rule development in Wazuh
- SPL essentials, time ranges, indexes
- Saved searches and alerts
- Splunk Enterprise Security overview
- Sigma rule writing (cross-SIEM portable)
- Detection coverage mapping to MITRE ATT&CK
- False positive tuning workflows
- MISP & OpenCTI for IOC management
- Threat feed integration into SIEM
- Indicator pivoting and enrichment
- TheHive + Cortex case management
- Phishing IR playbook
- Ransomware IR playbook
- Cloud incident playbooks
- 48-hour simulated SOC shift
- Real attack scenarios injected
- End-to-end IR documentation
The same toolkit our consultants use on real engagements.
Not academic exercises. The tools below are exactly what Macksofy consultants run on paying client engagements every week — so the muscle memory you build in class carries straight into your first job.
What roles open up after you complete this.
| Role | Salary band | Experience |
|---|---|---|
| SOC Analyst L1 | ₹4–6 LPA | 0–1 years |
| SOC Analyst L2 | ₹7–11 LPA | 1–3 years |
| Threat Hunter | ₹12–18 LPA | 3–5 years |
| Detection Engineer | ₹15–22 LPA | 3–5 years |
We don’t promise jobs. We open doors.
SOC roles are the fastest-growing entry-point in Indian cybersecurity. Our placement desk works directly with MSSPs and BFSI SOCs in Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune and Hyderabad.
- Real-world SOC ticket triage practice on our internal platform
- Mock interviews with active SOC L3 / managers
- Direct intros to hiring partners
- UAE placement support (Dubai, Abu Dhabi MSSPs hire heavily)
“Joined a top private bank's SOC 2 weeks after completing the course. The Wazuh labs were exactly what they tested me on.”
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