AEGIS FIND THE SIGN
Adaptive Experiential
Learning Program
for SOC Front-liners
I would highly recommend the AEGIS certification, because it prepares analysts for the biggest trouble of SOC: Working miracles in a limited time under a great pressure. Cyber Struggle seems to be committed for delivering a good user experience. The content was great, the lab was fun, and the exam was challenging. If you are willing to take the certificate, you really need to be dedicated on it, focused, highly motivated and also ready to sacrifice from your sleep time.
AEGIS Program – a dynamic online program specially crafted for SOC Analysts. This immersive platform places you within a realistic corporate network environment, tackling SOC-related tasks that reflect real-world challenges. Utilizing the Scrum framework, AEGIS encourages candidates to hone time management, prioritization, and decision-making skills. But that’s not all – random incidents within the program test your readiness and resilience, simulating the time pressures and stressors inherent in real-world cybersecurity scenarios.
AEGIS is a 25 days real-life simulation like working in a corporate as a SOC Analysts.
Enroll now or Take the test to check that you meet the pre-requisites
General Overview
AEGIS Certification Coverage
It is possible to break down AEGIS Certification process into three parts. The first part is security monitoring, threat detection, and incident handling activities going on 7/24. There is IBM Qradar and Splunk as the SIEMs of the CSOC network. It is not like the ordinary capture the flags or exercises, but it is an almost entire CSOC simulation in a lab. It is possible to properly experiment with most of the MITRE ATT&CK vectors and TTP’s in this CSOC lab such as obfuscated commands, pivoting techniques, PowerShell payloads, and many more scenarios that were all very close to what you would see in the real world.
The second part is studying attack vectors by conducting them in the offensive labs. There are Linux and Windows machines, which together compose an Active Directory environment. Where you can practice AD-specific attack techniques and many more. AEGIS also provides you test machines where you can observe your own activity from the logs while performing the attacks. You can use these to test and optimize your SIEM rules.
The third part is the soft skills improvement. Basically, during the certification process, you have a student portal. And this portal is like a project management system of a corporation. Through the whole training, a storyline is followed in order to gamify your training process. In this storyline, you are recruited as a security analyst to a corporation with high-security demands. You have weekly tasks, backlogs, daily standups, weekly retrospectives, weekly sprints, and so on. There are also security incidents that you may encounter at any time. You are asked to detect, analyze, and report them in a timely manner. Unless they are not false positives of course.
Apply now and earn your AEGIS certification.
Fully Performance-Based
Apart from standalone exercises, you will have a small and living environment including SIEM, EDR, AD, and more where you will deal with SOC capabilities
Task Management
You will have a task management system to manage all exercises, tasks and your submissions. You will be assigned sprint tasks at the beginning of every sprint
Instant Support and Mentorship
All of your task submission will be evaluated by our mentors. There will be task submission feedback coming from our mentors via commenting the tasks if needed
Incidents and Uncertainty Doctrine
With random internal and external incidents, improve your mental resilience, stay incident oriented with never give up mentality, and enhance your reactive skills and combat fitness. Push your technical skills with malware, network traffic, root cause, memory analysis and code reviews
Stay Agile
Do your own scrum, prioritize your tasks, prepare your backlogs based on the weekly tasks, due dates and requirements. Improve your agile, project management and decision making skills
Adaptive and Experiential
Develop your own use cases, write your rules, make your correlations. Deal with incidents and dynamically changing environment, with time pressure, decision making pressure, prepare yourself against uncertainty, like the real-world
Personalization of Learning
No thousands of paper course materials, basic how-to videos or hundreds of useless content. Only real tasks, you and the internet, just like real-life! Tasks are completing each other as part of a scenario and following a functionality-focused learning path
Intense Exercises
With real life scenarios, tasks, and incidents, 28 days intensive hands-on exercises. Prioritization and planning is a key!
Sample day of an AEGIS
A day of the AEGIS participant is similar to the one of a hard-working analyst in a heavily targeted cybersecurity operation center.
The participant starts the day with DRot (Daily Routine) by evaluating the previous day and planning the new one. Yesterday’s challenges, problems, tasks, feelings, solutions, decisions he or she made, and everything are included in this evaluation and planning activity.
The task management system examines the backlog of assigned tasks… Necessary prioritization should be made. The participant begins to work on the tasks. Since every task has a due date, prioritization, planning, and decision-making dynamics are crucial.
While the participant is dealing with routine tasks, as in real life, the participant will also be responsible for (e.g.) hunting unknown threats, analyzing malware, optimizing SIEM rules and writing new correlations, evaluating false-positives, and reviewing the IoCs.
In addition, sudden and random incidents can occur: AEGIS’s own command control engine can simulate real-life threats and perform both internal and external attacks including APT scenarios. When these attacks occur, the participant stops all daily routines and focuses on root cause analysis, impact analysis, and incident management.
Those tasks, incidents, and periodic activity transitions, combined with improving technical knowledge, give participants real skills in high adaptivity, decision-making under intense pressure, planning, and time management and greatly improves their resilience.
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S46 Dashboard
All certification process including labs, tasks, incidents and support will be managed by our S46 Simulation Software. After your enrollment to the certification, an account will be given to you together with guides and further instructions
With Successful certification
AEGIS holders can
Write basic scripts to aid in the SOC process
Identify and eliminate false positives
Identify common post-exploitation techniques and lateral movements
Making correlations and writing rules based on MITRE vectors
Make correlation between offensive techniques and investigations/detections
Perform root cause, malware, network traffic, memory analysis
Perform root cause, malware, network traffic, memory analysis
Getting decent know-how about MITRE framework
Show better performance under pressure
Doing better prioritization, time management and decision making
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Enrollment Process
- Application/Payment01Once application form is completed, you will receive e-mail with payment link and starting date
- Start Date Selection02Start Date selection and before starting your journey. Certification starts at the beginning of every month
- Certification Process03You will receive information about your simulation environment and next steps
- Exam042 days examination
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this course online?
Yes! It is totally online. You will use our S46 Simulation environment where you will manage your tasks, labs, incidents, vigilance practices, threat hunting reports and so on.
Is there any pre-requisite course or certification to enroll this program?
No, AEGIS our very first program that you can attend without prior course or certification
Is there any technical requirement to enroll?
Basic scripting, knowledge about fundamental networking and common services, SIEM, Qradar or any other solution knowledge would be big plus. Additionally, basic linux and windows operating system is required. We strongly recommend you to take “Am I Ready for Aegis” test to check your status.
What is the price of the program?
AEGIS is 2100$ at the moment including 25 days of program and 2 days of exam voucher
Is it instructor-led?
No! There is no instructor. Instead, there are mentors who are checking your submissions and give feedback with comments to you submissions if necessary.
Will you provide any course materials?
No! Basically, we believe in simulation not the industrial revolution minded training. You will use S46 software where you manage all the process. On S46, there is also task management system. Just like real-life and as if you are working in a company, you will get tasks. You are free to use any resource to finish the tasks on time. Like real-life!
How long is the program duration?
You will have 25 days in total consists of 5 sprints. Every sprint has 5 days. The labs are open for 24/7 during the program. So, you are free to make your time management, task prioritization, decision making and so on, just like real-life.
After 25 days of program, you will have 2 days examination.
I am working at the same time, do I have to spend my entire day on this program?
Absolutely not! The program is intensive. However, it is designed the way that anyone put effort, suffers, put discipline in place can succeed with a reasonable pain. Yes, pain! we believe in its teaching capability 🙂
So, make your own prioritization, decision making, time management, put enough discipline, accept the pain and that’s it!
How many exam attempts are included in the course?
One exam attempt. However, you can purchase additional exam attempts.
Am i required to write report?
So much! During the program and during the exam. Assume reporting as your product, again, just like real-life. You will write reports, briefs, notes for almost everything.
Do you offer student discount?
Absolutely! If you have an EDU email, you can claim your 20% discount.
Apply now and earn your AEGIS certification!