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The new Level Effect is live. Big UX and feature update for certs, learning, and team training. Plus, a whole new look. 🔥 Live streaming it now.
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Tier 2+ Cyber Defense Specializations: Finding Your Path
Sample skills and disciplines that branch off from SOC work. Scripting with PowerShell and Python, detection engineering, cloud security and DevSecOps, and web app pentesting, each a self-contained hands-on introduction.
It's recommended to check this out after our 0 to Tier 1, Tier 1 to 2 SOC Analyst paths, but it's friendly for beginners to check out too.
Get started here: foundry.leveleffect.com/lear…
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npm supply chain attack, trojanized package in the nightly build, SOC alerted, credentials possibly exfiltrated... do you know what to do?
Get experience responding to this attack in our new course called PHANTOM:
- Pull 10 IOCs out of a real artifact pack
- Write YARA, Snort and Sigma rules against your findings, get them graded
- Threat hunt using KQL or PowerShell
- Deliver a full incident report, manually reviewed 1 on 1 by an Instructor
We ran this as a CTF in May. It's now a full course you can take any time, no timer. Pass the report and the PHANTOM badge is yours.
Live now on Guardian Foundry, included in all access tiers:
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Already a member? Jump straight in:
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Training Actual SOC Analysts on the Job xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1XxygwlEQ…
We just got approved in CISA's NICCS Education & Training Catalog!🔥
31 courses now mapped to official Work Roles, Competency Areas, and TKS Statements (Tasks, Knowledge, Skills).
For students, you can now put this on your resume having completed officially recognized training. All 31 of our current courses made the cut, from Detection Engineering and DFIR to Cloud Security and GRC.
For enterprise and government teams, it means an easier path to justify training spend. NICCS listing is a signal larger organizations and agencies look for when building out workforce development programs, especially ones that need to map back to the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework.
Check it out!
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Live demo of how our partners are training their SOC Analysts on the job with our new enterprise / b2b training tools released last month.
-- > Thursday September 3 at 1PM EST! <--
Level Effect, LLC. retweeted
Give AI this one instruction...
Models pick up on the assumption baked into your question. If your prompt sounds like "there has to be an answer here," they'll invent one to satisfy you. Even the frontier models do this.
One-line fix: give it explicit permission to say "this doesn't apply." Suddenly the hallucinations stop and you get actual honest answers.
Prompting is a skill. This is one of the highest-ROI ones to learn.
Watch more talks like this here: jht.link/ContinuumCon
#ContinuumCon #PromptEngineering #AITips #LLM #AI
Ask a Senior Detection Engineer Anything | AI, Rules, The Job! xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1qGoNYbVA…
if you have detection engineering questions then come hang out today at 12PM EST
Live Q&A next week with a Senior Threat Detection Engineer currently at Leidos, and founder of HardCounter, an independent research lab focused on detection engineering, defensive automation, and applied AI.
His name is Rain Jordan, and he previously led Red Team operations at U.S. Army Cyber Command, Digital Forensics & Incident Response at Take-Two Interactive. He also holds a deep stack of 20 practical certs including GXPN, GCFA, GCIA, GCFE, GREM, and OSCP.
His LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rain-jordan/
Bring your questions on AI in detection work, writing and maintaining rules that survive production, and what the job actually looks like day-to-day! Straight answers from someone still doing the work!
Live Q&A next week with a Senior Threat Detection Engineer currently at Leidos, and founder of HardCounter, an independent research lab focused on detection engineering, defensive automation, and applied AI.
His name is Rain Jordan, and he previously led Red Team operations at U.S. Army Cyber Command, Digital Forensics & Incident Response at Take-Two Interactive. He also holds a deep stack of 20 practical certs including GXPN, GCFA, GCIA, GCFE, GREM, and OSCP.
His LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rain-jordan/
Bring your questions on AI in detection work, writing and maintaining rules that survive production, and what the job actually looks like day-to-day! Straight answers from someone still doing the work!
Founder’s Sale 40% off ends today. What you get:
- Virtual Helpdesk + Tier 1 & Tier 2 Virtual SOCs
- Your own feedback, 1 on 1 instructor reviews, live mentorship calls, and more coming like an Apprenticeship Program
- 500+ lessons & labs across six Learning Paths mapped to real job tasks
- From 0 experience to Tier 2+ SOC & Detection Engineering
- Ton more content and features coming
>> Adventurer: $206.50/year (~$17/mo)
>> Guardian: $563.50/year (~$47/mo)
One time lowest rate as a thank you to the people who jumped in early on what we believe is the next iteration of training this industry needs.
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Open to Adventurers + Guardians, and an invite draw list to the previous DE&TH students.
A public draw form coming soon to bring in more students after initial tests.
HardStuck: Detection Engineering beta is now LIVE. New R&D (Research & Development) lesson format. Instant feedback and 1 on 1 instructor reviews.
Three modules open:
- Why Detection Engineering Exists
- The Detection Environment
- Detection Design
Available in "Learning Paths" after logging in:
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The cheaper AI makes detection rule generation, the deeper the expertise needed to judge whether it fits your business context.
HardStuck: Detection Engineering beta goes live Friday Aug 14 to train exactly that. Requirements, design, validation, deployment, maintenance.
Detection engineering is more than writing rules. What happens after implementation? Auditing? Maintenance? ... when do you retire them?
AI is also making rule generation cheap. That means more rules entering your environment faster. More validation, oversight, and technical debt.
Right now we train you heavily on producing rules and testing them against telemetry. But now the next part is needed.
Our next course trains the engineering process: requirements, design, validation, deployment, maintenance.
It's being written by a very experienced Senior Threat Detection Engineer who is seeing this problem compound in the field today.
You asked for more Detection Engineering content, and you're getting it. ✅ 1 on 1 submissions and feedback included.
Full reveal and waitlist next week. 👀
HardStuck: Detection Engineering beta opens Aug 14. At full release it brings a new R&D (Research & Development) certification class to the industry: HADES R&D.
Earning the cert requires new original detection research plus a full lifecycle detection build, reviewed by the author himself, and made to live in your portfolio.
This new course covers the engineering process: requirements, design, validation, deployment, maintenance. It's built by Rain Jordan, original author of our DE&TH track, founder of his own detection company, and a Senior Threat Detection Engineer in the field.
Adventurers and Guardians are in the beta automatically. Draw forms go out next week for everyone else, with a special one for DE&TH owners.
Full details in this month's newsletter:
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Note: the Founder's Sale ends Aug 16. Over 40% off annual, locked for life. Lowest ever, and it gets you into the beta.
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