Mastering LogRhythm for Cybersecurity Operations and Threat Detection
You're under pressure. Every alert could be noise-or the one that brings down your network. You're expected to detect threats fast, respond accurately, and justify decisions to leadership who don’t understand the complexity. You’re flying blind with fragmented tools, drowning in logs, and juggling too many dashboards to trust your own analysis. What if you could cut through the noise with precision? What if you knew exactly how to configure, optimise, and operationalise LogRhythm to become your organisation's first line of defense? Not just using it, but mastering it-the way elite analysts do. This course, Mastering LogRhythm for Cybersecurity Operations and Threat Detection, is your proven path from reactive responder to proactive threat hunter. You'll go from overwhelmed to in control, building a systematic, repeatable process to detect, investigate, and neutralise threats faster than ever before-with confidence-backed methodology that stands up under audit and scrutiny. One recent learner, Priya M., Senior SOC Analyst at a global financial institution, used this training to reduce mean time to detect by 68% in under three months. She built custom correlation rules that caught stealthy lateral movement others had missed, earning her a spot on the internal incident response team-and a well-deserved promotion. This is not just about learning a tool. It’s about gaining a strategic advantage. You’ll walk away with a board-ready operational framework, hardened detection logic you can deploy immediately, and the peer-recognised Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service to validate your expertise. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details Self-paced, on-demand access means you start immediately and progress at your own speed, fitting deep technical learning around your real-world responsibilities. No fixed start dates, no mandatory attendance, no scheduling conflicts-just immediate access to a comprehensive, battle-tested curriculum built for the modern cybersecurity professional. Your Path to Mastery: Clear, Flexible, Risk-Free
- Self-Paced Learning: Begin the moment you enroll. Move through content as fast or as slowly as needed.
- Immediate Online Access: Your learning portal unlocks right after registration. Dive into materials on any device, any time.
- Typical Completion: Most learners complete the full curriculum in 4–6 weeks with 6–8 hours per week. Many apply core detection strategies within the first 72 hours.
- Lifetime Access: Once enrolled, you keep full access to all course content-including all future updates-forever. No subscriptions, no recurring fees.
- Mobile-Friendly: Access lessons, diagrams, and exercises seamlessly on smartphones, tablets, or desktops, anywhere in the world.
- 24/7 Global Availability: Designed for professionals across time zones, shift work, and incident response cycles.
Trusted Support & Recognition
You’re not alone. You receive direct instructor guidance through structured Q&A pathways, curated feedback loops, and detailed implementation templates. This is not a passive experience-it’s an engineered journey with expert oversight built in. Upon successful completion, you earn a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service, a globally recognised credential trusted by thousands of cybersecurity professionals, hiring managers, and compliance officers. This certification demonstrates rigorous, practical mastery-not just attendance. Transparent, Upfront Value - No Hidden Costs
Pricing is straightforward with no hidden fees. You pay once and unlock everything. We accept all major payment methods, including Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal, with secure checkout and full encryption. Your enrollment includes a 30-day satisfaction guarantee. If you find the course does not meet your expectations for depth, relevance, or professional impact, simply request a full refund. No questions, no hassle. You’ll Receive Confirmation and Access Instructions
After enrollment, you’ll receive an automated confirmation email. Your detailed access information, including login credentials and platform orientation, will be sent separately once the course materials are prepared for optimal delivery. This ensures a stable, tested learning environment from day one. This Works for You - Even If…
- You’re new to SIEM architecture but need to become productive fast.
- You’ve used LogRhythm before but lack confidence in rule logic or escalation workflows.
- You’re juggling incident response, compliance audits, and leadership reporting.
- You work in a high-volume SOC with alert fatigue and false positives overwhelming your team.
- You’re aiming for promotion or a move into threat hunting or security engineering.
This works even if you’ve tried other courses and walked away with fragmented knowledge. This is the only structured, implementation-grade curriculum that takes you from setup to detection engineering to certification in one coherent path. Security isn’t optional. Neither is precision. That’s why every element of this course reduces risk-from learning risk to operational risk-so you gain clarity, confidence, and career leverage without compromise.
Module 1: Foundations of LogRhythm Architecture and Cybersecurity Context - Understanding LogRhythm’s role in modern security operations centers
- Core components: Console, Database, Agents, Collector, Event Processor
- Integration of LogRhythm within layered defense strategies
- Mapping LogRhythm capabilities to MITRE ATT&CK framework
- Licensing models and deployment options: physical, virtual, cloud
- Initial setup and configuration checklist
- Best practices for agent deployment and log source onboarding
- Understanding log normalization and formatting standards
- Data flow from source to analytics engine
- Security and access control in LogRhythm environments
Module 2: Log Source Integration and Data Acquisition - Identifying critical log sources across enterprise systems
- Windows Event Log integration with proper filtering
- Active Directory audit log ingestion and parsing
- Firewall and proxy log integration from major vendors
- Endpoint detection and response (EDR) telemetry integration
- Cloud service logging: AWS CloudTrail, Azure AD, Google Workspace
- Custom log source addition using GTFs and custom parsers
- Troubleshooting common log ingestion failures
- Validating log completeness and timeline integrity
- Configuring log retention policies aligned with compliance
Module 3: Event Prioritisation and Alarm Configuration - Understanding Event Priorities and their impact on triage
- Customising priority assignments based on asset criticality
- Creating actionable alarms with appropriate thresholds
- Differentiating between informational, warning, and critical alerts
- Alarm grouping and suppression to reduce noise
- Assigning alarms to analyst roles and queues
- Configuring alarm escalation paths and notification methods
- Testing alarm logic with historical data
- Optimising alarm sensitivity to balance false positives and coverage
- Documenting alarm rationale for audit readiness
Module 4: Correlation Engine Principles and Rule Design - Introduction to correlation rules and their strategic value
- Structure of a correlation rule: triggers, conditions, actions
- Using Rule Logic Builder for complex detection scenarios
- Creating rules based on MITRE ATT&CK techniques
- Time-based correlation: detecting sequences and intervals
- Count-based rules: identifying brute force and enumeration
- Threshold tuning to reduce alert fatigue
- Rule versioning and change management
- Testing rules in staging environments
- Measuring rule efficacy with detection rate and false positive metrics
Module 5: Advanced Threat Detection with Custom Rules - Detecting suspicious login patterns across domains
- Hunting for Kerberos abuse and pass-the-ticket attacks
- Identifying PowerShell exploitation through command-line auditing
- Spotting lateral movement via WMI and PsExec
- Correlating failed logins with successful access from unusual locations
- Detecting data exfiltration through DNS tunneling
- Identifying persistence mechanisms using scheduled tasks
- Monitoring for registry modifications associated with malware
- Creating rules for fileless malware indicators
- Building rules around suspicious process tree anomalies
Module 6: LogRhythm Case Management Workflow - Opening and categorising security cases effectively
- Assigning cases to analysts based on expertise and workload
- Using case notes for clear, auditable documentation
- Linking related alerts and events to single investigations
- Setting case statuses: Open, In Progress, Escalated, Closed
- Adding timestamps and analyst annotations
- Integrating case data with external ticketing systems
- Generating case summary reports for management
- Maintaining chain of custody in case files
- Best practices for case closure and post-mortem reviews
Module 7: Security Intelligence and Anomaly Detection - Enabling and configuring LogRhythm’s AI Engine
- Understanding baseline behaviour modelling
- Interpreting anomaly scores and risk-based alerts
- Detecting deviations in user login patterns
- Identifying unusual data access or transfer volumes
- Monitoring for privilege escalation anomalies
- Using peer group analysis to spot outliers
- Adjusting sensitivity based on environment stability
- Combining anomaly detection with rule-based logic
- Evaluating AI-generated alerts for investigation priority
Module 8: User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) - Setting up UEBA components in LogRhythm
- Identifying high-risk user profiles
- Monitoring for account compromise indicators
- Tracking changes in user activity during off-hours
- Detecting excessive failed logins followed by success
- Analysing access to sensitive data repositories
- Linking UEBA findings to active directory changes
- Investigating sudden changes in file access patterns
- Using risk scores to prioritise investigations
- Integrating UEBA insights into escalation procedures
Module 9: Real-Time Monitoring and Dashboards - Designing operational dashboards for SOC teams
- Creating real-time visibility into critical infrastructure
- Displaying active alarms, open cases, and response times
- Building executive dashboards for CISO reporting
- Using visualisations to communicate threat trends
- Configuring dashboard permissions by role
- Exporting dashboard data for compliance audits
- Setting up dynamic filters for on-the-fly analysis
- Monitoring detection efficacy over time
- Sharing dashboards across analyst teams
Module 10: Automated Response and Workflow Integration - Configuring LogRhythm SmartResponse actions
- Automating IP blocking via firewall integration
- Disabling compromised user accounts through AD scripts
- Triggering enrichment workflows with threat intelligence feeds
- Creating custom response playbooks
- Using API integrations for SOAR platform connectivity
- Testing automated responses in isolated environments
- Logging and auditing all automated actions
- Setting approval gates for high-impact responses
- Monitoring response success rates and tuning workflows
Module 11: Threat Intelligence Integration - Importing STIX/TAXII threat feeds into LogRhythm
- Mapping IOCs to correlation rules and alarms
- Validating threat feed reliability and update frequency
- Enriching alerts with external context
- Creating rules triggered by known malicious IPs, domains, hashes
- Configuring automatic IOC blacklisting
- Building custom threat intelligence dashboards
- Sharing IOCs with peer organisations securely
- Updating internal threat libraries based on incident findings
- Evaluating threat feed ROI and operational impact
Module 12: Incident Investigation and Timeline Analysis - Navigating the event timeline for forensic reconstruction
- Filtering events by time, source, user, or severity
- Identifying initial access vectors from historical data
- Reconstructing attacker movements across systems
- Correlating multiple event types into attack narratives
- Exporting timelines for reporting and legal purposes
- Using bookmarks and annotations during investigations
- Searching for specific registry, process, or file events
- Leveraging pivot analysis to expand scope
- Validating eradication by confirming no residual activity
Module 13: Compliance Reporting and Audit Preparation - Mapping LogRhythm data to PCI DSS requirements
- Generating reports for HIPAA compliance
- Meeting SOX controls with user activity logging
- Producing audit-ready reports for ISO 27001
- Scheduling recurring compliance reports
- Customising report templates for internal stakeholders
- Verifying log integrity for regulatory acceptance
- Demonstrating detection capability to auditors
- Archiving reports with tamper-proof timestamps
- Responding to auditor inquiries using LogRhythm evidence
Module 14: Performance Optimisation and System Health - Monitoring LogRhythm system health metrics
- Analysing resource usage: CPU, memory, disk I/O
- Identifying performance bottlenecks in processing
- Optimising rule execution order for efficiency
- Managing database growth and partitioning strategies
- Backups and disaster recovery planning
- Ensuring high availability with redundancy configurations
- Performing health checks and maintenance windows
- Scaling LogRhythm for enterprise growth
- Best practices for patching and version upgrades
Module 15: Threat Hunting Methodology Using LogRhythm - Developing hypotheses for proactive hunting
- Using LogRhythm queries to test attack assumptions
- Hunting for living-off-the-land binary (LOLbin) abuse
- Searching for evidence of credential dumping
- Looking for unsigned or suspicious executables
- Investigating PowerShell and command-line anomalies
- Identifying stealthy persistence mechanisms
- Validating findings across multiple data sources
- Documenting hunting procedures for repeatability
- Turning successful hunts into automated detection rules
Module 16: Cross-Tool Integration and SIEM Ecosystem - Integrating LogRhythm with endpoint detection tools
- Connecting to firewalls, proxies, and email gateways
- Using APIs for two-way data exchange
- Enabling single sign-on with SAML or LDAP
- Feeding LogRhythm data into data lakes for advanced analytics
- Exporting alerts to ticketing systems like ServiceNow
- Synchronising user identities across platforms
- Ensuring secure communication with TLS and certificates
- Monitoring integration health and failure points
- Creating unified workflows across security tools
Module 17: Custom Reporting and Executive Communication - Designing reports for technical and non-technical audiences
- Measuring and reporting mean time to detect (MTTD)
- Calculating mean time to respond (MTTR)
- Presenting threat trends and seasonal patterns
- Highlighting improvements in detection coverage
- Showing reduction in false positive rates
- Communicating risk posture to C-suite leaders
- Creating monthly security health dashboards
- Linking security metrics to business impact
- Building storytelling reports for board presentations
Module 18: Detection Engineering and Rule Lifecycle Management - Establishing a detection engineering mindset
- Documenting rule purpose, logic, and expected outcomes
- Creating a rule repository with version control
- Performing regular rule tuning and validation
- Deprecating obsolete or ineffective rules
- Measuring detection coverage across ATT&CK
- Aligning rules with business risk priorities
- Peer-reviewing rules before deployment
- Automating rule testing with sample data sets
- Generating metrics on rule effectiveness quarterly
Module 19: Secure Configuration and Hardening Practices - Hardening LogRhythm server operating systems
- Applying the principle of least privilege to user roles
- Securing API keys and service accounts
- Disabling unused services and ports
- Enabling FIPS-compliant encryption settings
- Configuring secure remote access for administrators
- Implementing role-based access controls (RBAC)
- Auditing administrator actions within the console
- Protecting database backups with encryption
- Regularly reviewing and rotating credentials
Module 20: Capstone: Build Your Operational Threat Detection Framework - Assessing your current detection maturity level
- Defining your organisation’s critical assets
- Prioritising threats based on likelihood and impact
- Designing a custom detection matrix using ATT&CK
- Implementing your first five high-impact correlation rules
- Configuring case management workflows
- Building a real-time monitoring dashboard
- Writing automated response playbooks
- Generating a 30-day operational report
- Presenting your framework for peer review and certification
Module 21: Certification Readiness and Career Advancement - Preparing for the Certificate of Completion assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and troubleshooting scenarios
- Completing practical implementation exercises
- Documenting your final project for submission
- Receiving feedback from instructors
- Uploading your work to the certification portal
- Earning your Credential: Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Adding the certification to LinkedIn and resumes
- Leveraging your credential in performance reviews
- Accessing alumni resources and job boards
- Understanding LogRhythm’s role in modern security operations centers
- Core components: Console, Database, Agents, Collector, Event Processor
- Integration of LogRhythm within layered defense strategies
- Mapping LogRhythm capabilities to MITRE ATT&CK framework
- Licensing models and deployment options: physical, virtual, cloud
- Initial setup and configuration checklist
- Best practices for agent deployment and log source onboarding
- Understanding log normalization and formatting standards
- Data flow from source to analytics engine
- Security and access control in LogRhythm environments
Module 2: Log Source Integration and Data Acquisition - Identifying critical log sources across enterprise systems
- Windows Event Log integration with proper filtering
- Active Directory audit log ingestion and parsing
- Firewall and proxy log integration from major vendors
- Endpoint detection and response (EDR) telemetry integration
- Cloud service logging: AWS CloudTrail, Azure AD, Google Workspace
- Custom log source addition using GTFs and custom parsers
- Troubleshooting common log ingestion failures
- Validating log completeness and timeline integrity
- Configuring log retention policies aligned with compliance
Module 3: Event Prioritisation and Alarm Configuration - Understanding Event Priorities and their impact on triage
- Customising priority assignments based on asset criticality
- Creating actionable alarms with appropriate thresholds
- Differentiating between informational, warning, and critical alerts
- Alarm grouping and suppression to reduce noise
- Assigning alarms to analyst roles and queues
- Configuring alarm escalation paths and notification methods
- Testing alarm logic with historical data
- Optimising alarm sensitivity to balance false positives and coverage
- Documenting alarm rationale for audit readiness
Module 4: Correlation Engine Principles and Rule Design - Introduction to correlation rules and their strategic value
- Structure of a correlation rule: triggers, conditions, actions
- Using Rule Logic Builder for complex detection scenarios
- Creating rules based on MITRE ATT&CK techniques
- Time-based correlation: detecting sequences and intervals
- Count-based rules: identifying brute force and enumeration
- Threshold tuning to reduce alert fatigue
- Rule versioning and change management
- Testing rules in staging environments
- Measuring rule efficacy with detection rate and false positive metrics
Module 5: Advanced Threat Detection with Custom Rules - Detecting suspicious login patterns across domains
- Hunting for Kerberos abuse and pass-the-ticket attacks
- Identifying PowerShell exploitation through command-line auditing
- Spotting lateral movement via WMI and PsExec
- Correlating failed logins with successful access from unusual locations
- Detecting data exfiltration through DNS tunneling
- Identifying persistence mechanisms using scheduled tasks
- Monitoring for registry modifications associated with malware
- Creating rules for fileless malware indicators
- Building rules around suspicious process tree anomalies
Module 6: LogRhythm Case Management Workflow - Opening and categorising security cases effectively
- Assigning cases to analysts based on expertise and workload
- Using case notes for clear, auditable documentation
- Linking related alerts and events to single investigations
- Setting case statuses: Open, In Progress, Escalated, Closed
- Adding timestamps and analyst annotations
- Integrating case data with external ticketing systems
- Generating case summary reports for management
- Maintaining chain of custody in case files
- Best practices for case closure and post-mortem reviews
Module 7: Security Intelligence and Anomaly Detection - Enabling and configuring LogRhythm’s AI Engine
- Understanding baseline behaviour modelling
- Interpreting anomaly scores and risk-based alerts
- Detecting deviations in user login patterns
- Identifying unusual data access or transfer volumes
- Monitoring for privilege escalation anomalies
- Using peer group analysis to spot outliers
- Adjusting sensitivity based on environment stability
- Combining anomaly detection with rule-based logic
- Evaluating AI-generated alerts for investigation priority
Module 8: User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) - Setting up UEBA components in LogRhythm
- Identifying high-risk user profiles
- Monitoring for account compromise indicators
- Tracking changes in user activity during off-hours
- Detecting excessive failed logins followed by success
- Analysing access to sensitive data repositories
- Linking UEBA findings to active directory changes
- Investigating sudden changes in file access patterns
- Using risk scores to prioritise investigations
- Integrating UEBA insights into escalation procedures
Module 9: Real-Time Monitoring and Dashboards - Designing operational dashboards for SOC teams
- Creating real-time visibility into critical infrastructure
- Displaying active alarms, open cases, and response times
- Building executive dashboards for CISO reporting
- Using visualisations to communicate threat trends
- Configuring dashboard permissions by role
- Exporting dashboard data for compliance audits
- Setting up dynamic filters for on-the-fly analysis
- Monitoring detection efficacy over time
- Sharing dashboards across analyst teams
Module 10: Automated Response and Workflow Integration - Configuring LogRhythm SmartResponse actions
- Automating IP blocking via firewall integration
- Disabling compromised user accounts through AD scripts
- Triggering enrichment workflows with threat intelligence feeds
- Creating custom response playbooks
- Using API integrations for SOAR platform connectivity
- Testing automated responses in isolated environments
- Logging and auditing all automated actions
- Setting approval gates for high-impact responses
- Monitoring response success rates and tuning workflows
Module 11: Threat Intelligence Integration - Importing STIX/TAXII threat feeds into LogRhythm
- Mapping IOCs to correlation rules and alarms
- Validating threat feed reliability and update frequency
- Enriching alerts with external context
- Creating rules triggered by known malicious IPs, domains, hashes
- Configuring automatic IOC blacklisting
- Building custom threat intelligence dashboards
- Sharing IOCs with peer organisations securely
- Updating internal threat libraries based on incident findings
- Evaluating threat feed ROI and operational impact
Module 12: Incident Investigation and Timeline Analysis - Navigating the event timeline for forensic reconstruction
- Filtering events by time, source, user, or severity
- Identifying initial access vectors from historical data
- Reconstructing attacker movements across systems
- Correlating multiple event types into attack narratives
- Exporting timelines for reporting and legal purposes
- Using bookmarks and annotations during investigations
- Searching for specific registry, process, or file events
- Leveraging pivot analysis to expand scope
- Validating eradication by confirming no residual activity
Module 13: Compliance Reporting and Audit Preparation - Mapping LogRhythm data to PCI DSS requirements
- Generating reports for HIPAA compliance
- Meeting SOX controls with user activity logging
- Producing audit-ready reports for ISO 27001
- Scheduling recurring compliance reports
- Customising report templates for internal stakeholders
- Verifying log integrity for regulatory acceptance
- Demonstrating detection capability to auditors
- Archiving reports with tamper-proof timestamps
- Responding to auditor inquiries using LogRhythm evidence
Module 14: Performance Optimisation and System Health - Monitoring LogRhythm system health metrics
- Analysing resource usage: CPU, memory, disk I/O
- Identifying performance bottlenecks in processing
- Optimising rule execution order for efficiency
- Managing database growth and partitioning strategies
- Backups and disaster recovery planning
- Ensuring high availability with redundancy configurations
- Performing health checks and maintenance windows
- Scaling LogRhythm for enterprise growth
- Best practices for patching and version upgrades
Module 15: Threat Hunting Methodology Using LogRhythm - Developing hypotheses for proactive hunting
- Using LogRhythm queries to test attack assumptions
- Hunting for living-off-the-land binary (LOLbin) abuse
- Searching for evidence of credential dumping
- Looking for unsigned or suspicious executables
- Investigating PowerShell and command-line anomalies
- Identifying stealthy persistence mechanisms
- Validating findings across multiple data sources
- Documenting hunting procedures for repeatability
- Turning successful hunts into automated detection rules
Module 16: Cross-Tool Integration and SIEM Ecosystem - Integrating LogRhythm with endpoint detection tools
- Connecting to firewalls, proxies, and email gateways
- Using APIs for two-way data exchange
- Enabling single sign-on with SAML or LDAP
- Feeding LogRhythm data into data lakes for advanced analytics
- Exporting alerts to ticketing systems like ServiceNow
- Synchronising user identities across platforms
- Ensuring secure communication with TLS and certificates
- Monitoring integration health and failure points
- Creating unified workflows across security tools
Module 17: Custom Reporting and Executive Communication - Designing reports for technical and non-technical audiences
- Measuring and reporting mean time to detect (MTTD)
- Calculating mean time to respond (MTTR)
- Presenting threat trends and seasonal patterns
- Highlighting improvements in detection coverage
- Showing reduction in false positive rates
- Communicating risk posture to C-suite leaders
- Creating monthly security health dashboards
- Linking security metrics to business impact
- Building storytelling reports for board presentations
Module 18: Detection Engineering and Rule Lifecycle Management - Establishing a detection engineering mindset
- Documenting rule purpose, logic, and expected outcomes
- Creating a rule repository with version control
- Performing regular rule tuning and validation
- Deprecating obsolete or ineffective rules
- Measuring detection coverage across ATT&CK
- Aligning rules with business risk priorities
- Peer-reviewing rules before deployment
- Automating rule testing with sample data sets
- Generating metrics on rule effectiveness quarterly
Module 19: Secure Configuration and Hardening Practices - Hardening LogRhythm server operating systems
- Applying the principle of least privilege to user roles
- Securing API keys and service accounts
- Disabling unused services and ports
- Enabling FIPS-compliant encryption settings
- Configuring secure remote access for administrators
- Implementing role-based access controls (RBAC)
- Auditing administrator actions within the console
- Protecting database backups with encryption
- Regularly reviewing and rotating credentials
Module 20: Capstone: Build Your Operational Threat Detection Framework - Assessing your current detection maturity level
- Defining your organisation’s critical assets
- Prioritising threats based on likelihood and impact
- Designing a custom detection matrix using ATT&CK
- Implementing your first five high-impact correlation rules
- Configuring case management workflows
- Building a real-time monitoring dashboard
- Writing automated response playbooks
- Generating a 30-day operational report
- Presenting your framework for peer review and certification
Module 21: Certification Readiness and Career Advancement - Preparing for the Certificate of Completion assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and troubleshooting scenarios
- Completing practical implementation exercises
- Documenting your final project for submission
- Receiving feedback from instructors
- Uploading your work to the certification portal
- Earning your Credential: Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Adding the certification to LinkedIn and resumes
- Leveraging your credential in performance reviews
- Accessing alumni resources and job boards
- Understanding Event Priorities and their impact on triage
- Customising priority assignments based on asset criticality
- Creating actionable alarms with appropriate thresholds
- Differentiating between informational, warning, and critical alerts
- Alarm grouping and suppression to reduce noise
- Assigning alarms to analyst roles and queues
- Configuring alarm escalation paths and notification methods
- Testing alarm logic with historical data
- Optimising alarm sensitivity to balance false positives and coverage
- Documenting alarm rationale for audit readiness
Module 4: Correlation Engine Principles and Rule Design - Introduction to correlation rules and their strategic value
- Structure of a correlation rule: triggers, conditions, actions
- Using Rule Logic Builder for complex detection scenarios
- Creating rules based on MITRE ATT&CK techniques
- Time-based correlation: detecting sequences and intervals
- Count-based rules: identifying brute force and enumeration
- Threshold tuning to reduce alert fatigue
- Rule versioning and change management
- Testing rules in staging environments
- Measuring rule efficacy with detection rate and false positive metrics
Module 5: Advanced Threat Detection with Custom Rules - Detecting suspicious login patterns across domains
- Hunting for Kerberos abuse and pass-the-ticket attacks
- Identifying PowerShell exploitation through command-line auditing
- Spotting lateral movement via WMI and PsExec
- Correlating failed logins with successful access from unusual locations
- Detecting data exfiltration through DNS tunneling
- Identifying persistence mechanisms using scheduled tasks
- Monitoring for registry modifications associated with malware
- Creating rules for fileless malware indicators
- Building rules around suspicious process tree anomalies
Module 6: LogRhythm Case Management Workflow - Opening and categorising security cases effectively
- Assigning cases to analysts based on expertise and workload
- Using case notes for clear, auditable documentation
- Linking related alerts and events to single investigations
- Setting case statuses: Open, In Progress, Escalated, Closed
- Adding timestamps and analyst annotations
- Integrating case data with external ticketing systems
- Generating case summary reports for management
- Maintaining chain of custody in case files
- Best practices for case closure and post-mortem reviews
Module 7: Security Intelligence and Anomaly Detection - Enabling and configuring LogRhythm’s AI Engine
- Understanding baseline behaviour modelling
- Interpreting anomaly scores and risk-based alerts
- Detecting deviations in user login patterns
- Identifying unusual data access or transfer volumes
- Monitoring for privilege escalation anomalies
- Using peer group analysis to spot outliers
- Adjusting sensitivity based on environment stability
- Combining anomaly detection with rule-based logic
- Evaluating AI-generated alerts for investigation priority
Module 8: User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) - Setting up UEBA components in LogRhythm
- Identifying high-risk user profiles
- Monitoring for account compromise indicators
- Tracking changes in user activity during off-hours
- Detecting excessive failed logins followed by success
- Analysing access to sensitive data repositories
- Linking UEBA findings to active directory changes
- Investigating sudden changes in file access patterns
- Using risk scores to prioritise investigations
- Integrating UEBA insights into escalation procedures
Module 9: Real-Time Monitoring and Dashboards - Designing operational dashboards for SOC teams
- Creating real-time visibility into critical infrastructure
- Displaying active alarms, open cases, and response times
- Building executive dashboards for CISO reporting
- Using visualisations to communicate threat trends
- Configuring dashboard permissions by role
- Exporting dashboard data for compliance audits
- Setting up dynamic filters for on-the-fly analysis
- Monitoring detection efficacy over time
- Sharing dashboards across analyst teams
Module 10: Automated Response and Workflow Integration - Configuring LogRhythm SmartResponse actions
- Automating IP blocking via firewall integration
- Disabling compromised user accounts through AD scripts
- Triggering enrichment workflows with threat intelligence feeds
- Creating custom response playbooks
- Using API integrations for SOAR platform connectivity
- Testing automated responses in isolated environments
- Logging and auditing all automated actions
- Setting approval gates for high-impact responses
- Monitoring response success rates and tuning workflows
Module 11: Threat Intelligence Integration - Importing STIX/TAXII threat feeds into LogRhythm
- Mapping IOCs to correlation rules and alarms
- Validating threat feed reliability and update frequency
- Enriching alerts with external context
- Creating rules triggered by known malicious IPs, domains, hashes
- Configuring automatic IOC blacklisting
- Building custom threat intelligence dashboards
- Sharing IOCs with peer organisations securely
- Updating internal threat libraries based on incident findings
- Evaluating threat feed ROI and operational impact
Module 12: Incident Investigation and Timeline Analysis - Navigating the event timeline for forensic reconstruction
- Filtering events by time, source, user, or severity
- Identifying initial access vectors from historical data
- Reconstructing attacker movements across systems
- Correlating multiple event types into attack narratives
- Exporting timelines for reporting and legal purposes
- Using bookmarks and annotations during investigations
- Searching for specific registry, process, or file events
- Leveraging pivot analysis to expand scope
- Validating eradication by confirming no residual activity
Module 13: Compliance Reporting and Audit Preparation - Mapping LogRhythm data to PCI DSS requirements
- Generating reports for HIPAA compliance
- Meeting SOX controls with user activity logging
- Producing audit-ready reports for ISO 27001
- Scheduling recurring compliance reports
- Customising report templates for internal stakeholders
- Verifying log integrity for regulatory acceptance
- Demonstrating detection capability to auditors
- Archiving reports with tamper-proof timestamps
- Responding to auditor inquiries using LogRhythm evidence
Module 14: Performance Optimisation and System Health - Monitoring LogRhythm system health metrics
- Analysing resource usage: CPU, memory, disk I/O
- Identifying performance bottlenecks in processing
- Optimising rule execution order for efficiency
- Managing database growth and partitioning strategies
- Backups and disaster recovery planning
- Ensuring high availability with redundancy configurations
- Performing health checks and maintenance windows
- Scaling LogRhythm for enterprise growth
- Best practices for patching and version upgrades
Module 15: Threat Hunting Methodology Using LogRhythm - Developing hypotheses for proactive hunting
- Using LogRhythm queries to test attack assumptions
- Hunting for living-off-the-land binary (LOLbin) abuse
- Searching for evidence of credential dumping
- Looking for unsigned or suspicious executables
- Investigating PowerShell and command-line anomalies
- Identifying stealthy persistence mechanisms
- Validating findings across multiple data sources
- Documenting hunting procedures for repeatability
- Turning successful hunts into automated detection rules
Module 16: Cross-Tool Integration and SIEM Ecosystem - Integrating LogRhythm with endpoint detection tools
- Connecting to firewalls, proxies, and email gateways
- Using APIs for two-way data exchange
- Enabling single sign-on with SAML or LDAP
- Feeding LogRhythm data into data lakes for advanced analytics
- Exporting alerts to ticketing systems like ServiceNow
- Synchronising user identities across platforms
- Ensuring secure communication with TLS and certificates
- Monitoring integration health and failure points
- Creating unified workflows across security tools
Module 17: Custom Reporting and Executive Communication - Designing reports for technical and non-technical audiences
- Measuring and reporting mean time to detect (MTTD)
- Calculating mean time to respond (MTTR)
- Presenting threat trends and seasonal patterns
- Highlighting improvements in detection coverage
- Showing reduction in false positive rates
- Communicating risk posture to C-suite leaders
- Creating monthly security health dashboards
- Linking security metrics to business impact
- Building storytelling reports for board presentations
Module 18: Detection Engineering and Rule Lifecycle Management - Establishing a detection engineering mindset
- Documenting rule purpose, logic, and expected outcomes
- Creating a rule repository with version control
- Performing regular rule tuning and validation
- Deprecating obsolete or ineffective rules
- Measuring detection coverage across ATT&CK
- Aligning rules with business risk priorities
- Peer-reviewing rules before deployment
- Automating rule testing with sample data sets
- Generating metrics on rule effectiveness quarterly
Module 19: Secure Configuration and Hardening Practices - Hardening LogRhythm server operating systems
- Applying the principle of least privilege to user roles
- Securing API keys and service accounts
- Disabling unused services and ports
- Enabling FIPS-compliant encryption settings
- Configuring secure remote access for administrators
- Implementing role-based access controls (RBAC)
- Auditing administrator actions within the console
- Protecting database backups with encryption
- Regularly reviewing and rotating credentials
Module 20: Capstone: Build Your Operational Threat Detection Framework - Assessing your current detection maturity level
- Defining your organisation’s critical assets
- Prioritising threats based on likelihood and impact
- Designing a custom detection matrix using ATT&CK
- Implementing your first five high-impact correlation rules
- Configuring case management workflows
- Building a real-time monitoring dashboard
- Writing automated response playbooks
- Generating a 30-day operational report
- Presenting your framework for peer review and certification
Module 21: Certification Readiness and Career Advancement - Preparing for the Certificate of Completion assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and troubleshooting scenarios
- Completing practical implementation exercises
- Documenting your final project for submission
- Receiving feedback from instructors
- Uploading your work to the certification portal
- Earning your Credential: Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Adding the certification to LinkedIn and resumes
- Leveraging your credential in performance reviews
- Accessing alumni resources and job boards
- Detecting suspicious login patterns across domains
- Hunting for Kerberos abuse and pass-the-ticket attacks
- Identifying PowerShell exploitation through command-line auditing
- Spotting lateral movement via WMI and PsExec
- Correlating failed logins with successful access from unusual locations
- Detecting data exfiltration through DNS tunneling
- Identifying persistence mechanisms using scheduled tasks
- Monitoring for registry modifications associated with malware
- Creating rules for fileless malware indicators
- Building rules around suspicious process tree anomalies
Module 6: LogRhythm Case Management Workflow - Opening and categorising security cases effectively
- Assigning cases to analysts based on expertise and workload
- Using case notes for clear, auditable documentation
- Linking related alerts and events to single investigations
- Setting case statuses: Open, In Progress, Escalated, Closed
- Adding timestamps and analyst annotations
- Integrating case data with external ticketing systems
- Generating case summary reports for management
- Maintaining chain of custody in case files
- Best practices for case closure and post-mortem reviews
Module 7: Security Intelligence and Anomaly Detection - Enabling and configuring LogRhythm’s AI Engine
- Understanding baseline behaviour modelling
- Interpreting anomaly scores and risk-based alerts
- Detecting deviations in user login patterns
- Identifying unusual data access or transfer volumes
- Monitoring for privilege escalation anomalies
- Using peer group analysis to spot outliers
- Adjusting sensitivity based on environment stability
- Combining anomaly detection with rule-based logic
- Evaluating AI-generated alerts for investigation priority
Module 8: User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) - Setting up UEBA components in LogRhythm
- Identifying high-risk user profiles
- Monitoring for account compromise indicators
- Tracking changes in user activity during off-hours
- Detecting excessive failed logins followed by success
- Analysing access to sensitive data repositories
- Linking UEBA findings to active directory changes
- Investigating sudden changes in file access patterns
- Using risk scores to prioritise investigations
- Integrating UEBA insights into escalation procedures
Module 9: Real-Time Monitoring and Dashboards - Designing operational dashboards for SOC teams
- Creating real-time visibility into critical infrastructure
- Displaying active alarms, open cases, and response times
- Building executive dashboards for CISO reporting
- Using visualisations to communicate threat trends
- Configuring dashboard permissions by role
- Exporting dashboard data for compliance audits
- Setting up dynamic filters for on-the-fly analysis
- Monitoring detection efficacy over time
- Sharing dashboards across analyst teams
Module 10: Automated Response and Workflow Integration - Configuring LogRhythm SmartResponse actions
- Automating IP blocking via firewall integration
- Disabling compromised user accounts through AD scripts
- Triggering enrichment workflows with threat intelligence feeds
- Creating custom response playbooks
- Using API integrations for SOAR platform connectivity
- Testing automated responses in isolated environments
- Logging and auditing all automated actions
- Setting approval gates for high-impact responses
- Monitoring response success rates and tuning workflows
Module 11: Threat Intelligence Integration - Importing STIX/TAXII threat feeds into LogRhythm
- Mapping IOCs to correlation rules and alarms
- Validating threat feed reliability and update frequency
- Enriching alerts with external context
- Creating rules triggered by known malicious IPs, domains, hashes
- Configuring automatic IOC blacklisting
- Building custom threat intelligence dashboards
- Sharing IOCs with peer organisations securely
- Updating internal threat libraries based on incident findings
- Evaluating threat feed ROI and operational impact
Module 12: Incident Investigation and Timeline Analysis - Navigating the event timeline for forensic reconstruction
- Filtering events by time, source, user, or severity
- Identifying initial access vectors from historical data
- Reconstructing attacker movements across systems
- Correlating multiple event types into attack narratives
- Exporting timelines for reporting and legal purposes
- Using bookmarks and annotations during investigations
- Searching for specific registry, process, or file events
- Leveraging pivot analysis to expand scope
- Validating eradication by confirming no residual activity
Module 13: Compliance Reporting and Audit Preparation - Mapping LogRhythm data to PCI DSS requirements
- Generating reports for HIPAA compliance
- Meeting SOX controls with user activity logging
- Producing audit-ready reports for ISO 27001
- Scheduling recurring compliance reports
- Customising report templates for internal stakeholders
- Verifying log integrity for regulatory acceptance
- Demonstrating detection capability to auditors
- Archiving reports with tamper-proof timestamps
- Responding to auditor inquiries using LogRhythm evidence
Module 14: Performance Optimisation and System Health - Monitoring LogRhythm system health metrics
- Analysing resource usage: CPU, memory, disk I/O
- Identifying performance bottlenecks in processing
- Optimising rule execution order for efficiency
- Managing database growth and partitioning strategies
- Backups and disaster recovery planning
- Ensuring high availability with redundancy configurations
- Performing health checks and maintenance windows
- Scaling LogRhythm for enterprise growth
- Best practices for patching and version upgrades
Module 15: Threat Hunting Methodology Using LogRhythm - Developing hypotheses for proactive hunting
- Using LogRhythm queries to test attack assumptions
- Hunting for living-off-the-land binary (LOLbin) abuse
- Searching for evidence of credential dumping
- Looking for unsigned or suspicious executables
- Investigating PowerShell and command-line anomalies
- Identifying stealthy persistence mechanisms
- Validating findings across multiple data sources
- Documenting hunting procedures for repeatability
- Turning successful hunts into automated detection rules
Module 16: Cross-Tool Integration and SIEM Ecosystem - Integrating LogRhythm with endpoint detection tools
- Connecting to firewalls, proxies, and email gateways
- Using APIs for two-way data exchange
- Enabling single sign-on with SAML or LDAP
- Feeding LogRhythm data into data lakes for advanced analytics
- Exporting alerts to ticketing systems like ServiceNow
- Synchronising user identities across platforms
- Ensuring secure communication with TLS and certificates
- Monitoring integration health and failure points
- Creating unified workflows across security tools
Module 17: Custom Reporting and Executive Communication - Designing reports for technical and non-technical audiences
- Measuring and reporting mean time to detect (MTTD)
- Calculating mean time to respond (MTTR)
- Presenting threat trends and seasonal patterns
- Highlighting improvements in detection coverage
- Showing reduction in false positive rates
- Communicating risk posture to C-suite leaders
- Creating monthly security health dashboards
- Linking security metrics to business impact
- Building storytelling reports for board presentations
Module 18: Detection Engineering and Rule Lifecycle Management - Establishing a detection engineering mindset
- Documenting rule purpose, logic, and expected outcomes
- Creating a rule repository with version control
- Performing regular rule tuning and validation
- Deprecating obsolete or ineffective rules
- Measuring detection coverage across ATT&CK
- Aligning rules with business risk priorities
- Peer-reviewing rules before deployment
- Automating rule testing with sample data sets
- Generating metrics on rule effectiveness quarterly
Module 19: Secure Configuration and Hardening Practices - Hardening LogRhythm server operating systems
- Applying the principle of least privilege to user roles
- Securing API keys and service accounts
- Disabling unused services and ports
- Enabling FIPS-compliant encryption settings
- Configuring secure remote access for administrators
- Implementing role-based access controls (RBAC)
- Auditing administrator actions within the console
- Protecting database backups with encryption
- Regularly reviewing and rotating credentials
Module 20: Capstone: Build Your Operational Threat Detection Framework - Assessing your current detection maturity level
- Defining your organisation’s critical assets
- Prioritising threats based on likelihood and impact
- Designing a custom detection matrix using ATT&CK
- Implementing your first five high-impact correlation rules
- Configuring case management workflows
- Building a real-time monitoring dashboard
- Writing automated response playbooks
- Generating a 30-day operational report
- Presenting your framework for peer review and certification
Module 21: Certification Readiness and Career Advancement - Preparing for the Certificate of Completion assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and troubleshooting scenarios
- Completing practical implementation exercises
- Documenting your final project for submission
- Receiving feedback from instructors
- Uploading your work to the certification portal
- Earning your Credential: Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Adding the certification to LinkedIn and resumes
- Leveraging your credential in performance reviews
- Accessing alumni resources and job boards
- Enabling and configuring LogRhythm’s AI Engine
- Understanding baseline behaviour modelling
- Interpreting anomaly scores and risk-based alerts
- Detecting deviations in user login patterns
- Identifying unusual data access or transfer volumes
- Monitoring for privilege escalation anomalies
- Using peer group analysis to spot outliers
- Adjusting sensitivity based on environment stability
- Combining anomaly detection with rule-based logic
- Evaluating AI-generated alerts for investigation priority
Module 8: User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) - Setting up UEBA components in LogRhythm
- Identifying high-risk user profiles
- Monitoring for account compromise indicators
- Tracking changes in user activity during off-hours
- Detecting excessive failed logins followed by success
- Analysing access to sensitive data repositories
- Linking UEBA findings to active directory changes
- Investigating sudden changes in file access patterns
- Using risk scores to prioritise investigations
- Integrating UEBA insights into escalation procedures
Module 9: Real-Time Monitoring and Dashboards - Designing operational dashboards for SOC teams
- Creating real-time visibility into critical infrastructure
- Displaying active alarms, open cases, and response times
- Building executive dashboards for CISO reporting
- Using visualisations to communicate threat trends
- Configuring dashboard permissions by role
- Exporting dashboard data for compliance audits
- Setting up dynamic filters for on-the-fly analysis
- Monitoring detection efficacy over time
- Sharing dashboards across analyst teams
Module 10: Automated Response and Workflow Integration - Configuring LogRhythm SmartResponse actions
- Automating IP blocking via firewall integration
- Disabling compromised user accounts through AD scripts
- Triggering enrichment workflows with threat intelligence feeds
- Creating custom response playbooks
- Using API integrations for SOAR platform connectivity
- Testing automated responses in isolated environments
- Logging and auditing all automated actions
- Setting approval gates for high-impact responses
- Monitoring response success rates and tuning workflows
Module 11: Threat Intelligence Integration - Importing STIX/TAXII threat feeds into LogRhythm
- Mapping IOCs to correlation rules and alarms
- Validating threat feed reliability and update frequency
- Enriching alerts with external context
- Creating rules triggered by known malicious IPs, domains, hashes
- Configuring automatic IOC blacklisting
- Building custom threat intelligence dashboards
- Sharing IOCs with peer organisations securely
- Updating internal threat libraries based on incident findings
- Evaluating threat feed ROI and operational impact
Module 12: Incident Investigation and Timeline Analysis - Navigating the event timeline for forensic reconstruction
- Filtering events by time, source, user, or severity
- Identifying initial access vectors from historical data
- Reconstructing attacker movements across systems
- Correlating multiple event types into attack narratives
- Exporting timelines for reporting and legal purposes
- Using bookmarks and annotations during investigations
- Searching for specific registry, process, or file events
- Leveraging pivot analysis to expand scope
- Validating eradication by confirming no residual activity
Module 13: Compliance Reporting and Audit Preparation - Mapping LogRhythm data to PCI DSS requirements
- Generating reports for HIPAA compliance
- Meeting SOX controls with user activity logging
- Producing audit-ready reports for ISO 27001
- Scheduling recurring compliance reports
- Customising report templates for internal stakeholders
- Verifying log integrity for regulatory acceptance
- Demonstrating detection capability to auditors
- Archiving reports with tamper-proof timestamps
- Responding to auditor inquiries using LogRhythm evidence
Module 14: Performance Optimisation and System Health - Monitoring LogRhythm system health metrics
- Analysing resource usage: CPU, memory, disk I/O
- Identifying performance bottlenecks in processing
- Optimising rule execution order for efficiency
- Managing database growth and partitioning strategies
- Backups and disaster recovery planning
- Ensuring high availability with redundancy configurations
- Performing health checks and maintenance windows
- Scaling LogRhythm for enterprise growth
- Best practices for patching and version upgrades
Module 15: Threat Hunting Methodology Using LogRhythm - Developing hypotheses for proactive hunting
- Using LogRhythm queries to test attack assumptions
- Hunting for living-off-the-land binary (LOLbin) abuse
- Searching for evidence of credential dumping
- Looking for unsigned or suspicious executables
- Investigating PowerShell and command-line anomalies
- Identifying stealthy persistence mechanisms
- Validating findings across multiple data sources
- Documenting hunting procedures for repeatability
- Turning successful hunts into automated detection rules
Module 16: Cross-Tool Integration and SIEM Ecosystem - Integrating LogRhythm with endpoint detection tools
- Connecting to firewalls, proxies, and email gateways
- Using APIs for two-way data exchange
- Enabling single sign-on with SAML or LDAP
- Feeding LogRhythm data into data lakes for advanced analytics
- Exporting alerts to ticketing systems like ServiceNow
- Synchronising user identities across platforms
- Ensuring secure communication with TLS and certificates
- Monitoring integration health and failure points
- Creating unified workflows across security tools
Module 17: Custom Reporting and Executive Communication - Designing reports for technical and non-technical audiences
- Measuring and reporting mean time to detect (MTTD)
- Calculating mean time to respond (MTTR)
- Presenting threat trends and seasonal patterns
- Highlighting improvements in detection coverage
- Showing reduction in false positive rates
- Communicating risk posture to C-suite leaders
- Creating monthly security health dashboards
- Linking security metrics to business impact
- Building storytelling reports for board presentations
Module 18: Detection Engineering and Rule Lifecycle Management - Establishing a detection engineering mindset
- Documenting rule purpose, logic, and expected outcomes
- Creating a rule repository with version control
- Performing regular rule tuning and validation
- Deprecating obsolete or ineffective rules
- Measuring detection coverage across ATT&CK
- Aligning rules with business risk priorities
- Peer-reviewing rules before deployment
- Automating rule testing with sample data sets
- Generating metrics on rule effectiveness quarterly
Module 19: Secure Configuration and Hardening Practices - Hardening LogRhythm server operating systems
- Applying the principle of least privilege to user roles
- Securing API keys and service accounts
- Disabling unused services and ports
- Enabling FIPS-compliant encryption settings
- Configuring secure remote access for administrators
- Implementing role-based access controls (RBAC)
- Auditing administrator actions within the console
- Protecting database backups with encryption
- Regularly reviewing and rotating credentials
Module 20: Capstone: Build Your Operational Threat Detection Framework - Assessing your current detection maturity level
- Defining your organisation’s critical assets
- Prioritising threats based on likelihood and impact
- Designing a custom detection matrix using ATT&CK
- Implementing your first five high-impact correlation rules
- Configuring case management workflows
- Building a real-time monitoring dashboard
- Writing automated response playbooks
- Generating a 30-day operational report
- Presenting your framework for peer review and certification
Module 21: Certification Readiness and Career Advancement - Preparing for the Certificate of Completion assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and troubleshooting scenarios
- Completing practical implementation exercises
- Documenting your final project for submission
- Receiving feedback from instructors
- Uploading your work to the certification portal
- Earning your Credential: Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Adding the certification to LinkedIn and resumes
- Leveraging your credential in performance reviews
- Accessing alumni resources and job boards
- Designing operational dashboards for SOC teams
- Creating real-time visibility into critical infrastructure
- Displaying active alarms, open cases, and response times
- Building executive dashboards for CISO reporting
- Using visualisations to communicate threat trends
- Configuring dashboard permissions by role
- Exporting dashboard data for compliance audits
- Setting up dynamic filters for on-the-fly analysis
- Monitoring detection efficacy over time
- Sharing dashboards across analyst teams
Module 10: Automated Response and Workflow Integration - Configuring LogRhythm SmartResponse actions
- Automating IP blocking via firewall integration
- Disabling compromised user accounts through AD scripts
- Triggering enrichment workflows with threat intelligence feeds
- Creating custom response playbooks
- Using API integrations for SOAR platform connectivity
- Testing automated responses in isolated environments
- Logging and auditing all automated actions
- Setting approval gates for high-impact responses
- Monitoring response success rates and tuning workflows
Module 11: Threat Intelligence Integration - Importing STIX/TAXII threat feeds into LogRhythm
- Mapping IOCs to correlation rules and alarms
- Validating threat feed reliability and update frequency
- Enriching alerts with external context
- Creating rules triggered by known malicious IPs, domains, hashes
- Configuring automatic IOC blacklisting
- Building custom threat intelligence dashboards
- Sharing IOCs with peer organisations securely
- Updating internal threat libraries based on incident findings
- Evaluating threat feed ROI and operational impact
Module 12: Incident Investigation and Timeline Analysis - Navigating the event timeline for forensic reconstruction
- Filtering events by time, source, user, or severity
- Identifying initial access vectors from historical data
- Reconstructing attacker movements across systems
- Correlating multiple event types into attack narratives
- Exporting timelines for reporting and legal purposes
- Using bookmarks and annotations during investigations
- Searching for specific registry, process, or file events
- Leveraging pivot analysis to expand scope
- Validating eradication by confirming no residual activity
Module 13: Compliance Reporting and Audit Preparation - Mapping LogRhythm data to PCI DSS requirements
- Generating reports for HIPAA compliance
- Meeting SOX controls with user activity logging
- Producing audit-ready reports for ISO 27001
- Scheduling recurring compliance reports
- Customising report templates for internal stakeholders
- Verifying log integrity for regulatory acceptance
- Demonstrating detection capability to auditors
- Archiving reports with tamper-proof timestamps
- Responding to auditor inquiries using LogRhythm evidence
Module 14: Performance Optimisation and System Health - Monitoring LogRhythm system health metrics
- Analysing resource usage: CPU, memory, disk I/O
- Identifying performance bottlenecks in processing
- Optimising rule execution order for efficiency
- Managing database growth and partitioning strategies
- Backups and disaster recovery planning
- Ensuring high availability with redundancy configurations
- Performing health checks and maintenance windows
- Scaling LogRhythm for enterprise growth
- Best practices for patching and version upgrades
Module 15: Threat Hunting Methodology Using LogRhythm - Developing hypotheses for proactive hunting
- Using LogRhythm queries to test attack assumptions
- Hunting for living-off-the-land binary (LOLbin) abuse
- Searching for evidence of credential dumping
- Looking for unsigned or suspicious executables
- Investigating PowerShell and command-line anomalies
- Identifying stealthy persistence mechanisms
- Validating findings across multiple data sources
- Documenting hunting procedures for repeatability
- Turning successful hunts into automated detection rules
Module 16: Cross-Tool Integration and SIEM Ecosystem - Integrating LogRhythm with endpoint detection tools
- Connecting to firewalls, proxies, and email gateways
- Using APIs for two-way data exchange
- Enabling single sign-on with SAML or LDAP
- Feeding LogRhythm data into data lakes for advanced analytics
- Exporting alerts to ticketing systems like ServiceNow
- Synchronising user identities across platforms
- Ensuring secure communication with TLS and certificates
- Monitoring integration health and failure points
- Creating unified workflows across security tools
Module 17: Custom Reporting and Executive Communication - Designing reports for technical and non-technical audiences
- Measuring and reporting mean time to detect (MTTD)
- Calculating mean time to respond (MTTR)
- Presenting threat trends and seasonal patterns
- Highlighting improvements in detection coverage
- Showing reduction in false positive rates
- Communicating risk posture to C-suite leaders
- Creating monthly security health dashboards
- Linking security metrics to business impact
- Building storytelling reports for board presentations
Module 18: Detection Engineering and Rule Lifecycle Management - Establishing a detection engineering mindset
- Documenting rule purpose, logic, and expected outcomes
- Creating a rule repository with version control
- Performing regular rule tuning and validation
- Deprecating obsolete or ineffective rules
- Measuring detection coverage across ATT&CK
- Aligning rules with business risk priorities
- Peer-reviewing rules before deployment
- Automating rule testing with sample data sets
- Generating metrics on rule effectiveness quarterly
Module 19: Secure Configuration and Hardening Practices - Hardening LogRhythm server operating systems
- Applying the principle of least privilege to user roles
- Securing API keys and service accounts
- Disabling unused services and ports
- Enabling FIPS-compliant encryption settings
- Configuring secure remote access for administrators
- Implementing role-based access controls (RBAC)
- Auditing administrator actions within the console
- Protecting database backups with encryption
- Regularly reviewing and rotating credentials
Module 20: Capstone: Build Your Operational Threat Detection Framework - Assessing your current detection maturity level
- Defining your organisation’s critical assets
- Prioritising threats based on likelihood and impact
- Designing a custom detection matrix using ATT&CK
- Implementing your first five high-impact correlation rules
- Configuring case management workflows
- Building a real-time monitoring dashboard
- Writing automated response playbooks
- Generating a 30-day operational report
- Presenting your framework for peer review and certification
Module 21: Certification Readiness and Career Advancement - Preparing for the Certificate of Completion assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and troubleshooting scenarios
- Completing practical implementation exercises
- Documenting your final project for submission
- Receiving feedback from instructors
- Uploading your work to the certification portal
- Earning your Credential: Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Adding the certification to LinkedIn and resumes
- Leveraging your credential in performance reviews
- Accessing alumni resources and job boards
- Importing STIX/TAXII threat feeds into LogRhythm
- Mapping IOCs to correlation rules and alarms
- Validating threat feed reliability and update frequency
- Enriching alerts with external context
- Creating rules triggered by known malicious IPs, domains, hashes
- Configuring automatic IOC blacklisting
- Building custom threat intelligence dashboards
- Sharing IOCs with peer organisations securely
- Updating internal threat libraries based on incident findings
- Evaluating threat feed ROI and operational impact
Module 12: Incident Investigation and Timeline Analysis - Navigating the event timeline for forensic reconstruction
- Filtering events by time, source, user, or severity
- Identifying initial access vectors from historical data
- Reconstructing attacker movements across systems
- Correlating multiple event types into attack narratives
- Exporting timelines for reporting and legal purposes
- Using bookmarks and annotations during investigations
- Searching for specific registry, process, or file events
- Leveraging pivot analysis to expand scope
- Validating eradication by confirming no residual activity
Module 13: Compliance Reporting and Audit Preparation - Mapping LogRhythm data to PCI DSS requirements
- Generating reports for HIPAA compliance
- Meeting SOX controls with user activity logging
- Producing audit-ready reports for ISO 27001
- Scheduling recurring compliance reports
- Customising report templates for internal stakeholders
- Verifying log integrity for regulatory acceptance
- Demonstrating detection capability to auditors
- Archiving reports with tamper-proof timestamps
- Responding to auditor inquiries using LogRhythm evidence
Module 14: Performance Optimisation and System Health - Monitoring LogRhythm system health metrics
- Analysing resource usage: CPU, memory, disk I/O
- Identifying performance bottlenecks in processing
- Optimising rule execution order for efficiency
- Managing database growth and partitioning strategies
- Backups and disaster recovery planning
- Ensuring high availability with redundancy configurations
- Performing health checks and maintenance windows
- Scaling LogRhythm for enterprise growth
- Best practices for patching and version upgrades
Module 15: Threat Hunting Methodology Using LogRhythm - Developing hypotheses for proactive hunting
- Using LogRhythm queries to test attack assumptions
- Hunting for living-off-the-land binary (LOLbin) abuse
- Searching for evidence of credential dumping
- Looking for unsigned or suspicious executables
- Investigating PowerShell and command-line anomalies
- Identifying stealthy persistence mechanisms
- Validating findings across multiple data sources
- Documenting hunting procedures for repeatability
- Turning successful hunts into automated detection rules
Module 16: Cross-Tool Integration and SIEM Ecosystem - Integrating LogRhythm with endpoint detection tools
- Connecting to firewalls, proxies, and email gateways
- Using APIs for two-way data exchange
- Enabling single sign-on with SAML or LDAP
- Feeding LogRhythm data into data lakes for advanced analytics
- Exporting alerts to ticketing systems like ServiceNow
- Synchronising user identities across platforms
- Ensuring secure communication with TLS and certificates
- Monitoring integration health and failure points
- Creating unified workflows across security tools
Module 17: Custom Reporting and Executive Communication - Designing reports for technical and non-technical audiences
- Measuring and reporting mean time to detect (MTTD)
- Calculating mean time to respond (MTTR)
- Presenting threat trends and seasonal patterns
- Highlighting improvements in detection coverage
- Showing reduction in false positive rates
- Communicating risk posture to C-suite leaders
- Creating monthly security health dashboards
- Linking security metrics to business impact
- Building storytelling reports for board presentations
Module 18: Detection Engineering and Rule Lifecycle Management - Establishing a detection engineering mindset
- Documenting rule purpose, logic, and expected outcomes
- Creating a rule repository with version control
- Performing regular rule tuning and validation
- Deprecating obsolete or ineffective rules
- Measuring detection coverage across ATT&CK
- Aligning rules with business risk priorities
- Peer-reviewing rules before deployment
- Automating rule testing with sample data sets
- Generating metrics on rule effectiveness quarterly
Module 19: Secure Configuration and Hardening Practices - Hardening LogRhythm server operating systems
- Applying the principle of least privilege to user roles
- Securing API keys and service accounts
- Disabling unused services and ports
- Enabling FIPS-compliant encryption settings
- Configuring secure remote access for administrators
- Implementing role-based access controls (RBAC)
- Auditing administrator actions within the console
- Protecting database backups with encryption
- Regularly reviewing and rotating credentials
Module 20: Capstone: Build Your Operational Threat Detection Framework - Assessing your current detection maturity level
- Defining your organisation’s critical assets
- Prioritising threats based on likelihood and impact
- Designing a custom detection matrix using ATT&CK
- Implementing your first five high-impact correlation rules
- Configuring case management workflows
- Building a real-time monitoring dashboard
- Writing automated response playbooks
- Generating a 30-day operational report
- Presenting your framework for peer review and certification
Module 21: Certification Readiness and Career Advancement - Preparing for the Certificate of Completion assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and troubleshooting scenarios
- Completing practical implementation exercises
- Documenting your final project for submission
- Receiving feedback from instructors
- Uploading your work to the certification portal
- Earning your Credential: Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Adding the certification to LinkedIn and resumes
- Leveraging your credential in performance reviews
- Accessing alumni resources and job boards
- Mapping LogRhythm data to PCI DSS requirements
- Generating reports for HIPAA compliance
- Meeting SOX controls with user activity logging
- Producing audit-ready reports for ISO 27001
- Scheduling recurring compliance reports
- Customising report templates for internal stakeholders
- Verifying log integrity for regulatory acceptance
- Demonstrating detection capability to auditors
- Archiving reports with tamper-proof timestamps
- Responding to auditor inquiries using LogRhythm evidence
Module 14: Performance Optimisation and System Health - Monitoring LogRhythm system health metrics
- Analysing resource usage: CPU, memory, disk I/O
- Identifying performance bottlenecks in processing
- Optimising rule execution order for efficiency
- Managing database growth and partitioning strategies
- Backups and disaster recovery planning
- Ensuring high availability with redundancy configurations
- Performing health checks and maintenance windows
- Scaling LogRhythm for enterprise growth
- Best practices for patching and version upgrades
Module 15: Threat Hunting Methodology Using LogRhythm - Developing hypotheses for proactive hunting
- Using LogRhythm queries to test attack assumptions
- Hunting for living-off-the-land binary (LOLbin) abuse
- Searching for evidence of credential dumping
- Looking for unsigned or suspicious executables
- Investigating PowerShell and command-line anomalies
- Identifying stealthy persistence mechanisms
- Validating findings across multiple data sources
- Documenting hunting procedures for repeatability
- Turning successful hunts into automated detection rules
Module 16: Cross-Tool Integration and SIEM Ecosystem - Integrating LogRhythm with endpoint detection tools
- Connecting to firewalls, proxies, and email gateways
- Using APIs for two-way data exchange
- Enabling single sign-on with SAML or LDAP
- Feeding LogRhythm data into data lakes for advanced analytics
- Exporting alerts to ticketing systems like ServiceNow
- Synchronising user identities across platforms
- Ensuring secure communication with TLS and certificates
- Monitoring integration health and failure points
- Creating unified workflows across security tools
Module 17: Custom Reporting and Executive Communication - Designing reports for technical and non-technical audiences
- Measuring and reporting mean time to detect (MTTD)
- Calculating mean time to respond (MTTR)
- Presenting threat trends and seasonal patterns
- Highlighting improvements in detection coverage
- Showing reduction in false positive rates
- Communicating risk posture to C-suite leaders
- Creating monthly security health dashboards
- Linking security metrics to business impact
- Building storytelling reports for board presentations
Module 18: Detection Engineering and Rule Lifecycle Management - Establishing a detection engineering mindset
- Documenting rule purpose, logic, and expected outcomes
- Creating a rule repository with version control
- Performing regular rule tuning and validation
- Deprecating obsolete or ineffective rules
- Measuring detection coverage across ATT&CK
- Aligning rules with business risk priorities
- Peer-reviewing rules before deployment
- Automating rule testing with sample data sets
- Generating metrics on rule effectiveness quarterly
Module 19: Secure Configuration and Hardening Practices - Hardening LogRhythm server operating systems
- Applying the principle of least privilege to user roles
- Securing API keys and service accounts
- Disabling unused services and ports
- Enabling FIPS-compliant encryption settings
- Configuring secure remote access for administrators
- Implementing role-based access controls (RBAC)
- Auditing administrator actions within the console
- Protecting database backups with encryption
- Regularly reviewing and rotating credentials
Module 20: Capstone: Build Your Operational Threat Detection Framework - Assessing your current detection maturity level
- Defining your organisation’s critical assets
- Prioritising threats based on likelihood and impact
- Designing a custom detection matrix using ATT&CK
- Implementing your first five high-impact correlation rules
- Configuring case management workflows
- Building a real-time monitoring dashboard
- Writing automated response playbooks
- Generating a 30-day operational report
- Presenting your framework for peer review and certification
Module 21: Certification Readiness and Career Advancement - Preparing for the Certificate of Completion assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and troubleshooting scenarios
- Completing practical implementation exercises
- Documenting your final project for submission
- Receiving feedback from instructors
- Uploading your work to the certification portal
- Earning your Credential: Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Adding the certification to LinkedIn and resumes
- Leveraging your credential in performance reviews
- Accessing alumni resources and job boards
- Developing hypotheses for proactive hunting
- Using LogRhythm queries to test attack assumptions
- Hunting for living-off-the-land binary (LOLbin) abuse
- Searching for evidence of credential dumping
- Looking for unsigned or suspicious executables
- Investigating PowerShell and command-line anomalies
- Identifying stealthy persistence mechanisms
- Validating findings across multiple data sources
- Documenting hunting procedures for repeatability
- Turning successful hunts into automated detection rules
Module 16: Cross-Tool Integration and SIEM Ecosystem - Integrating LogRhythm with endpoint detection tools
- Connecting to firewalls, proxies, and email gateways
- Using APIs for two-way data exchange
- Enabling single sign-on with SAML or LDAP
- Feeding LogRhythm data into data lakes for advanced analytics
- Exporting alerts to ticketing systems like ServiceNow
- Synchronising user identities across platforms
- Ensuring secure communication with TLS and certificates
- Monitoring integration health and failure points
- Creating unified workflows across security tools
Module 17: Custom Reporting and Executive Communication - Designing reports for technical and non-technical audiences
- Measuring and reporting mean time to detect (MTTD)
- Calculating mean time to respond (MTTR)
- Presenting threat trends and seasonal patterns
- Highlighting improvements in detection coverage
- Showing reduction in false positive rates
- Communicating risk posture to C-suite leaders
- Creating monthly security health dashboards
- Linking security metrics to business impact
- Building storytelling reports for board presentations
Module 18: Detection Engineering and Rule Lifecycle Management - Establishing a detection engineering mindset
- Documenting rule purpose, logic, and expected outcomes
- Creating a rule repository with version control
- Performing regular rule tuning and validation
- Deprecating obsolete or ineffective rules
- Measuring detection coverage across ATT&CK
- Aligning rules with business risk priorities
- Peer-reviewing rules before deployment
- Automating rule testing with sample data sets
- Generating metrics on rule effectiveness quarterly
Module 19: Secure Configuration and Hardening Practices - Hardening LogRhythm server operating systems
- Applying the principle of least privilege to user roles
- Securing API keys and service accounts
- Disabling unused services and ports
- Enabling FIPS-compliant encryption settings
- Configuring secure remote access for administrators
- Implementing role-based access controls (RBAC)
- Auditing administrator actions within the console
- Protecting database backups with encryption
- Regularly reviewing and rotating credentials
Module 20: Capstone: Build Your Operational Threat Detection Framework - Assessing your current detection maturity level
- Defining your organisation’s critical assets
- Prioritising threats based on likelihood and impact
- Designing a custom detection matrix using ATT&CK
- Implementing your first five high-impact correlation rules
- Configuring case management workflows
- Building a real-time monitoring dashboard
- Writing automated response playbooks
- Generating a 30-day operational report
- Presenting your framework for peer review and certification
Module 21: Certification Readiness and Career Advancement - Preparing for the Certificate of Completion assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and troubleshooting scenarios
- Completing practical implementation exercises
- Documenting your final project for submission
- Receiving feedback from instructors
- Uploading your work to the certification portal
- Earning your Credential: Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Adding the certification to LinkedIn and resumes
- Leveraging your credential in performance reviews
- Accessing alumni resources and job boards
- Designing reports for technical and non-technical audiences
- Measuring and reporting mean time to detect (MTTD)
- Calculating mean time to respond (MTTR)
- Presenting threat trends and seasonal patterns
- Highlighting improvements in detection coverage
- Showing reduction in false positive rates
- Communicating risk posture to C-suite leaders
- Creating monthly security health dashboards
- Linking security metrics to business impact
- Building storytelling reports for board presentations
Module 18: Detection Engineering and Rule Lifecycle Management - Establishing a detection engineering mindset
- Documenting rule purpose, logic, and expected outcomes
- Creating a rule repository with version control
- Performing regular rule tuning and validation
- Deprecating obsolete or ineffective rules
- Measuring detection coverage across ATT&CK
- Aligning rules with business risk priorities
- Peer-reviewing rules before deployment
- Automating rule testing with sample data sets
- Generating metrics on rule effectiveness quarterly
Module 19: Secure Configuration and Hardening Practices - Hardening LogRhythm server operating systems
- Applying the principle of least privilege to user roles
- Securing API keys and service accounts
- Disabling unused services and ports
- Enabling FIPS-compliant encryption settings
- Configuring secure remote access for administrators
- Implementing role-based access controls (RBAC)
- Auditing administrator actions within the console
- Protecting database backups with encryption
- Regularly reviewing and rotating credentials
Module 20: Capstone: Build Your Operational Threat Detection Framework - Assessing your current detection maturity level
- Defining your organisation’s critical assets
- Prioritising threats based on likelihood and impact
- Designing a custom detection matrix using ATT&CK
- Implementing your first five high-impact correlation rules
- Configuring case management workflows
- Building a real-time monitoring dashboard
- Writing automated response playbooks
- Generating a 30-day operational report
- Presenting your framework for peer review and certification
Module 21: Certification Readiness and Career Advancement - Preparing for the Certificate of Completion assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and troubleshooting scenarios
- Completing practical implementation exercises
- Documenting your final project for submission
- Receiving feedback from instructors
- Uploading your work to the certification portal
- Earning your Credential: Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Adding the certification to LinkedIn and resumes
- Leveraging your credential in performance reviews
- Accessing alumni resources and job boards
- Hardening LogRhythm server operating systems
- Applying the principle of least privilege to user roles
- Securing API keys and service accounts
- Disabling unused services and ports
- Enabling FIPS-compliant encryption settings
- Configuring secure remote access for administrators
- Implementing role-based access controls (RBAC)
- Auditing administrator actions within the console
- Protecting database backups with encryption
- Regularly reviewing and rotating credentials
Module 20: Capstone: Build Your Operational Threat Detection Framework - Assessing your current detection maturity level
- Defining your organisation’s critical assets
- Prioritising threats based on likelihood and impact
- Designing a custom detection matrix using ATT&CK
- Implementing your first five high-impact correlation rules
- Configuring case management workflows
- Building a real-time monitoring dashboard
- Writing automated response playbooks
- Generating a 30-day operational report
- Presenting your framework for peer review and certification
Module 21: Certification Readiness and Career Advancement - Preparing for the Certificate of Completion assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and troubleshooting scenarios
- Completing practical implementation exercises
- Documenting your final project for submission
- Receiving feedback from instructors
- Uploading your work to the certification portal
- Earning your Credential: Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Adding the certification to LinkedIn and resumes
- Leveraging your credential in performance reviews
- Accessing alumni resources and job boards
- Preparing for the Certificate of Completion assessment
- Reviewing key concepts and troubleshooting scenarios
- Completing practical implementation exercises
- Documenting your final project for submission
- Receiving feedback from instructors
- Uploading your work to the certification portal
- Earning your Credential: Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Adding the certification to LinkedIn and resumes
- Leveraging your credential in performance reviews
- Accessing alumni resources and job boards