The Defender Mindset

Free lesson 1 of 11 from SOC Analyst & Blue Team — Now catch the attacker — hunt the real logs of the MegaCorp breach with nothing but the shell.. No account, no card.

You attacked. Now you defend.

In the other courses you broke into MegaCorp. Here you sit on the blue team: the attack already happened, it's buried in the logs, and your job is to reconstruct exactly what the intruder did — who, what, when, and did they get in?

No fancy SIEM. Real analysts live in the shell: grep, awk, sort, uniq, cut. Master those on raw logs and you can investigate anything.

🎯 Your case

Your Live-Lab ships a real incident. Open your box and read the ticket:

cat ~/soc/TICKET.txt
ls -la ~/soc/            # auth.log (ssh01) + access.log (web01)
🎯 Challenge: Read the ticket. How many log files were handed to you, and which two assets do they cover?
Show solution
cat ~/soc/TICKET.txt
wc -l ~/soc/auth.log ~/soc/access.log

Two logs: auth.log (ssh01 authentication) and access.log (web01 HTTP). Your entire investigation lives in these two files.

⚖️ Defensive analysis on your own lab data. The same skills protect real networks you're responsible for.

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