Your roadmap to real skills.

What is Incident Response?

Understand what counts as a security incident and why preparation matters more than reaction.

Preparation and Planning

Build an IR plan with defined roles, communication protocols, and tabletop exercises.

Detection and Analysis

Learn how incidents are detected via logs and alerts, and triage true positives from false positives.

Containment and Eradication

Apply short- and long-term containment strategies, remove threats, and preserve forensic evidence.

Recovery and Post-Incident

Restore systems, verify threat elimination, conduct post-incident review, and write an IR report.

Incident Response in Practice

Study real breach case studies, build playbooks, and walk through a simulated incident scenario.

Hands-on: SIEM Basics with Splunk

Stand up Splunk Free, query logs in SPL, and build a basic detection alert.

Tabletop Exercise: Credential Compromise

Lead a credential-compromise tabletop end-to-end and produce concrete action items.

Incident Response Resources and Next Steps

Explore curated NIST guides, certifications (CySA+, GCIH, BTL1), and practice platforms.

Incident Response Job Readiness

Translate IR skills into a resume, portfolio plan, and interview prep for SOC analyst and IR roles.