Building A Security Operations Center from Scratch for SOC Specialists

Elaine Gorman is an active red team operator, offensive security certified professional, and alumnus of Christopher Newport University with a degree in Computer Science. She works with the tools and principles used in this course daily as a matter of professional necessity. She presents and teaches at local security groups and is uniquely positioned to offer guidance on threat intelligence analysis due to her career as a white-hat hacker. In her free time, she enjoys reading and playing guitar.

Skylar Simmons is a U.S. Army veteran with over 10 years of security experience supporting various types of organizations, including, government, financial sector, and Fortune 500 companies. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Cyber Security from University of Maryland University College, along with OSCP, CISSP, and numerous other security and IT certifications.

Dawid Czagan (@dawidczagan) is an internationally recognized security researcher and trainer. He is listed among the top hackers at HackerOne. Dawid Czagan has found security vulnerabilities in Google, Yahoo, Mozilla, Microsoft, Twitter and other companies. Due to the severity of many bugs, he received numerous awards for his findings. Dawid Czagan shares his security bug hunting experience in his hands-on trainings “Hacking Web Applications – Case Studies of Award-Winning Bugs in Google, Yahoo, Mozilla and More” and “Black Belt Pentesting / Bug Hunting Millionaire: Mastering Web Attacks with Full-Stack Exploitation”. He delivered security training courses at key industry conferences such as Hack In The Box (Amsterdam), CanSecWest (Vancouver), 44CON (London), Hack In Paris (Paris), DeepSec (Vienna), NorthSec (Montreal), HITB GSEC (Singapore), BruCON (Ghent) and for many corporate clients. His students include security specialists from Oracle, Adobe, ESET, ING, Red Hat, Trend Micro, Philips and the government sector (references are attached to Dawid Czagan's LinkedIn profile (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawid-czagan-85ba3666/). They can also be found here: https://silesiasecuritylab.com/services/training/#opinions). Dawid Czagan is the founder and CEO of Silesia Security Lab – a company which delivers specialized security testing and training services. He is also an author of online security courses. To find out about the latest in Dawid Czagan’s work, you are invited to subscribe to his newsletter (https://silesiasecuritylab.com/newsletter) and follow him on Twitter (@dawidczagan) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawid-czagan-85ba3666/).

Joseph Delgadillo is the founder of JTDigital Courses, an education technology company. He has been active in the online learning community since 2015 and has worked with multiple startups. As of 2020, over 600,000 students across the globe have enrolled in his courses covering ethical hacking, Python programming, web development and more. He graduated with honours from Central Washington University.

Hesham Saad is a Senior Regional Cybersecurity & Technical Specialist in Microsoft, covering EMEA with extensive experience in threat protection, security analytics, DFIR - forensic analysis, SOC Operations, SIEM, SOAR, and advanced hunting, Modern Desktop & Management, Architecting, designing & developing security services and software applications/systems pipelines and more than 14+ years experience in Security, IT & Enterprise Architecture Design Role Responsibilities: • Architect, Design, develop, and implement advanced DFIR, SOAR, and SIEM security systems, modules, and workflows. • Build security system infrastructure. • Develop and update project code. • Manage project code development and its adherence to project design. • Assure assigned and developed modules quality. • Cybersecurity Consulting & Design Patterns. • Apply design patterns and Agile process. Specialties: Enterprise Security Solutions, DFIR, SIEM, SOAR, Threat Hunting, SOC Operations, Modern Desktop & Endpoints Security, and productivity.