Description

A focused course, tailored for you

The Broker-Dealer Cyber Analyst Lead's Detection Engineering Playbook

Move a securities-industry cyber team from alert triage to authored detections that survive SEC, FINRA, and internal audit scrutiny.

Your SOC metrics deck shows the analyst-to-alert ratio creeping the wrong way every month. Hiring is slow, the queue is fast, and the only durable answer is detection engineering. Most analyst-led teams never make the jump because nobody owns the discipline of turning a hunt into a promoted, peer-reviewed detection.

$199 one-time

Tailored to your situation. Access within 24 hours. 30-day money-back.

Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.

Why this course

A Sr. Manager running cyber security analysts inside a US retail broker-dealer sits between two pressures that don't politely take turns. On one side, the SOC queue. Phishing reports from financial consultants, EDR alerts off advisor laptops, anomalous trader-workstation logons, third-party SaaS suspicious sign-ins, and the steady drip of Reg SCI relevant systems pinging on patch drift. On the other side, the evidence pressure. Internal audit asks for detection coverage against the ATT&CK techniques most relevant to retail brokerage. The SEC examiner wants to see Reg SCI Rule 1001(a) reasonably designed controls evidenced, not asserted. FINRA's cyber sweep wants documented response procedures. The seniors on the team can write a Splunk search and triage an incident. What's missing is the engineering layer above the analyst layer. The course teaches that layer end to end so the next promotion conversation and the next exam cycle land on the same evidence.

What you walk away with

Promote the right twenty percent of analyst hunts into versioned, tested, documented detections every quarter.
Show ATT&CK coverage against a retail brokerage threat model with gaps explicitly tracked and owned.
Hand an SEC Reg SCI examiner an evidence package that maps controls to detections to alerts to response artefacts.
Cut mean time to triage on the alerts that survive promotion by removing the noisy ones at the source.
Get the next two analyst hires productive in weeks rather than quarters because the runbooks and detection logic are written down.

The 12 modules

Module 1. The retail broker-dealer threat model an analyst lead can actually defend in a meeting

Map the threat model to the specific business: financial consultants on laptops, advisor workstations with trading entitlements, custodial APIs, third-party SaaS for client communications, and the public-facing self-service login. Each surface gets a short threat actor profile, a primary technique cluster, and the regulatory expectation that touches it. Output is a one-page model the Sr. Manager walks the CISO through in a quarterly review.

Module 2. Detection engineering as a discipline distinct from analyst hunting

The seniors hunt. The engineer promotes hunts. This module separates the two jobs, defines the artefacts each produces, and gives the analyst lead the contract that turns a noisy good hunt into a quiet good detection. Includes a promotion checklist, a peer review rubric, and a deprecation policy for detections that stop pulling their weight.

Module 3. ATT&CK coverage mapping that survives a Reg SCI examination

Build a coverage matrix tied to the retail brokerage threat model from module one. Each technique gets a coverage state of none, partial, tuned, or validated, plus the evidence artefact behind the state. The output is the slide internal audit and the SEC examiner each want, sourced from the same underlying spreadsheet rather than rebuilt for every conversation.

Module 4. Reg SCI Rule 1001(a) evidence for a cyber analyst lead

Walk the specific clauses of Rule 1001(a) that the cyber function owns, then build the evidence package that maps the control language to detections, to alerts, to incident artefacts. Includes the language for the response procedures Reg SCI wants documented, plus the cadence for the policies and procedures review that the exam team will ask about.

Module 5. FINRA cyber sweep readiness for the analyst team layer

FINRA's cyber sweeps now reach into the analyst team's working artefacts, not just CISO-level policy. The module gives the Sr. Manager the documentation set the sweep will request, the gaps most often cited in cyber sweep findings against broker-dealers, and the simple remediation pattern that closes those gaps before the exam letter arrives.

Module 6. Detection-as-code for a Splunk-and-EDR shop

Move detection logic into a versioned repo. Cover branching strategy, peer review, automated testing against synthetic logs, and the deployment pattern that promotes a detection from a feature branch to production without breaking the analyst workflow. Includes a starter repo structure and a CI configuration that runs unit tests on new rules.

Module 7. Tuning the noisy ones so the queue shrinks without coverage loss

Most SOC queues are loud because a small number of detections are responsible for most of the noise. The module gives the analyst lead a four-step tuning loop that finds those detections, characterises the false positive pattern, splits the rule into a high-confidence variant and a hunt-only variant, and measures the queue impact across two weeks.

Module 8. Insider risk specific to a brokerage workforce

Trader workstations, financial consultant laptops, and custodial operations staff each present a different insider risk profile. The module builds three detection groups tied to those personas, covers the privacy and HR coordination an analyst lead needs to keep the program defensible, and gives the evidence pattern for the cases that escalate to internal investigations.

Module 9. Third-party SaaS detection coverage when the logs live somewhere else

Client communication SaaS, advisor productivity SaaS, marketing automation SaaS, and custodial portals each generate audit events the SOC needs visibility into. The module covers the pragmatic ingestion patterns when full SIEM forwarding is not on the table, the prioritisation rubric for which SaaS to onboard first, and the contractual language an analyst lead can take to vendor management to get the logs they actually need.

Module 10. Incident response artefacts the analyst lead owns

An examiner asks for incident artefacts, not for incident response philosophy. The module covers the timeline document, the containment record, the eradication evidence, the recovery validation, and the lessons learned write-up. Each artefact has a one-page template, a worked example sanitised from a retail brokerage incident pattern, and an examiner-ready format.

Module 11. Building the next analyst hire productive in weeks not quarters

When detections are versioned, runbooks are written, and the coverage matrix is the source of truth, a new analyst hire reads themselves into the team rather than waiting to be taught. The module covers the onboarding curriculum, the first-shift shadow protocol, the simulated incident exercise, and the criteria for moving a new hire from supervised to independent triage.

Module 12. The quarterly cyber report the CISO and the Audit Committee both find useful

Most SOC reports are either too noisy for the Audit Committee or too thin for the CISO. The module gives the analyst lead a single reporting pattern that produces the metrics the SOC manager needs, the trend slides the CISO carries upward, and the coverage and incident summary the Audit Committee wants once a quarter. Single source, three audiences, same numbers.

How this addresses your situation

Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.

Module 1 and module 3 produce the threat model and ATT&CK coverage view that anchor every conversation with internal audit, the CISO, and the SEC examiner.

Modules 6 and 7 are the engineering and tuning work that actually shrinks the analyst-to-alert ratio shown on the weekly SOC deck.

Modules 4, 5, and 10 are the evidence package work for Reg SCI, FINRA cyber sweeps, and the incident reviews that examiners and internal audit both pull from.

Modules 11 and 12 are the team and reporting layer that makes the gains stick after the Sr. Manager rotates or scales the team.

What you get with this course

Twelve text-based modules with downloadable templates and worked examples for each.
Starter detection-as-code repo with CI configuration tuned for a Splunk-and-EDR shop.
ATT&CK coverage matrix template scoped to a retail brokerage threat model.
Reg SCI Rule 1001(a) evidence package template with the cross-reference to detections and incident artefacts.
FINRA cyber sweep request-list playbook with the document set already structured.
Hand-built per-buyer implementation playbook tailored to the buyer's environment and team.

What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1

Within 24 hours, your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.

Modules are released as a single self-paced bundle. The recommended pace is two modules a week over six weeks, but the analyst lead controls the pace.

The implementation playbook references the buyer's environment, SIEM, EDR, and regulatory exposure so the work in module 6 maps to the actual repo and pipeline the buyer will use.

Before and after

Before

Analyst-to-alert ratio creeping upward each month, detections that work but live in nobody's repo, audit and exam evidence pieced together every cycle from scratch, and a new analyst hire taking a quarter to become useful.

After

Versioned detections promoted on a quarterly cadence, an ATT&CK coverage view the CISO walks audit through unprompted, Reg SCI and FINRA evidence pulled from one source, and a new analyst productive inside a few weeks.

What happens if you do not address this

The analyst-to-alert ratio keeps moving the wrong way, the next examiner asks for evidence the team has not packaged, and the headcount conversation becomes the only lever left. By then the lever is too slow.

Who it is for

Built for Sr. Managers and Team Leads inside a US retail broker-dealer or wealth platform cyber security function who already run an analyst team, already own a SIEM and an EDR, and now need the detection engineering discipline that turns analyst output into a versioned, peer-reviewed, examiner-defensible asset. Not an introductory SOC course. The reader has been an analyst, has run an incident, and is now accountable for the team's coverage, capacity, and audit posture.

Who this is NOT for. Not for analysts brand new to the role, not for CISOs looking for a governance overview, not for IT auditors looking for a generic controls course, and not for cyber teams at firms with no securities-industry regulatory exposure.

How it arrives

Text-based course in the Art of Service learning environment, plus downloadable templates and worked examples for every module, plus the hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access.

Time investment. Roughly six hours per module across reading, template work, and the repo exercises. About seventy-two hours total over six weeks at the recommended pace.

Why $199 is the right number

Vendor detection content libraries give a starting set of rules but no discipline for promoting hunts. Conference workshops cover the principles but not the broker-dealer specific evidence work. Generic SOC manager courses skip the detection engineering layer entirely. This course covers the layer that sits between analyst hunts and examiner evidence, scoped specifically to a US retail broker-dealer cyber team.

FAQ

Is this an analyst course or a manager course?

A team-lead and Sr. Manager course. The reader has been an analyst and now runs the function. The exercises produce artefacts the manager owns, not analyst-level hunts.

Do I need to be on Splunk?

The detection-as-code module uses Splunk as the worked example because most US retail broker-dealer cyber teams are on Splunk. The principles map cleanly to other SIEMs and the templates note the substitutions.

How specific is the regulatory content to retail broker-dealers?

The Reg SCI and FINRA modules are scoped to the US retail brokerage and wealth platform context. Custodial broker-dealer specifics are noted where they diverge.

What does the per-buyer implementation playbook actually contain?

A hand-built document scoped to the buyer's stack, team size, and current regulatory exposure that names the specific work order for the first quarter after the course.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.