SOC Fundamentals| TryHackMe — Writeup

Jynxx
1 min readNov 2, 2024

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Task 1

What does the term SOC stand for?

Security Operations Center

Task 2

The SOC team discovers an unauthorized user is trying to log in to an account. Which capability of SOC is this?

Detection

What are the three pillars of a SOC?

People, Process, Technology

Task 3

Alert triage and reporting is the responsibility of?

SOC Analyst (Level 1)

Which role in the SOC team allows you to work dedicatedly on establishing rules for alerting security solutions?

Detection Engineer

Task 4

At the end of the investigation, the SOC team found that John had attempted to steal the system’s data. Which ‘W’ from the 5 Ws does this answer?

Who

The SOC team detected a large amount of data exfiltration. Which ‘W’ from the 5 Ws does this answer?

What

Task 5

Which security solution monitors the incoming and outgoing traffic of the network?

Firewall

Do SIEM solutions primarily focus on detecting and alerting about security incidents? (yea/nay)

yea

Task 6

What: Activity that triggered the alert?

Port Scan

When: Time of the activity?

June 12, 2024 17:24

Where: Destination host IP?

10.0.0.3

Who: Source host name?

Nessus

Why: Reason for the activity? Intended/Malicious

Intended

Additional Investigation Notes: Has any response been sent back to the port scanner IP? (yea/nay)

yea

What is the flag found after closing the alert?

THM{000_INTRO_TO_SOC}

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