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Splunk Fundamentals for Effective Management of SOC and SIEM
656 students
Splunk Fundamentals for Effective Management of SOC and SIEM
Splunk Core course for Splunk Certifications prep, mastering Splunk Administration, boosting SOC Analyst and SIEM Skills
Created byOak Academy, OAK Academy Team
Last updated 11/2026
English
What you'll learn
- You will understand what SIEM is.
- You will understand where SIEM is used.
- You will have seen SIEM platforms.
- You will have an in-depth introduction to the world of Splunk.
- You will have seen how data is transferred to Splunk.
- You will have seen what you can do with which commands to query, search for data in Splunk.
- You will learn how to install apps from the Splunk App Store and get to know the most used apps.
- Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL)
- Reporting, Visualization & Dashboards
- And much more about Splunk
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Course content
16 sections • 101 lectures • 16h 36m total length
Requirements
- Basic IT concepts:
- Understanding computer networks, security threats, and data management will be beneficial.
- Interest in Security:
- A general interest in cybersecurity and security information management will make the course more engaging.
- Desire to learn Splunk
- A Windows PC, Mac or Linux Computer
- Nothing else! It’s just you, your computer and your ambition to get started today
Description
Welcome to the "Splunk Fundamentals for Effective Management of SOC and SIEM" course
Learn Splunk, write SPL searches, build dashboards and alerts, and investigate ransomware and APT attack scenarios through practical, step-by-step exercises.
Every security alert tells part of a story. The skill is knowing how to search the logs, connect the evidence, and work out what happened. Splunk helps security teams do exactly that, and this course shows you how to use it in a SOC and SIEM environment.
Start with the fundamentals of Security Operations Centers (SOC) and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), then learn how Splunk works, how to bring data into the platform, and how to search it using Search Processing Language (SPL). You’ll also learn to create reports, dashboards, and alerts, giving you the tools to turn raw logs into useful security information.
Then put those skills into practice. In the ransomware and Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) workshops, you’ll investigate attack scenarios in Splunk, trace suspicious activity, identify malicious files and processes, examine attacker behavior, and follow evidence across systems. Instead of only learning what Splunk commands do, you’ll practice using searches to answer the kinds of questions security analysts need to investigate.
Whether you’re preparing for a SOC analyst role, moving from IT administration into cybersecurity, or learning Splunk for the first time, this course gives you a structured path from the fundamentals to hands-on security investigations. No previous Splunk or SIEM experience is required.
What Skills Will You Learn in This Course?
SOC Foundations: Modern cyber defense principles, what a SOC is, the building blocks of a SOC (people, process, runbooks, technology), SOC-CSIRT, SOC visibility, and certifications in a SOC career.
SIEM Concepts: What SIEM is and how it works, SIEM planning and architecture, data collection, log formats, SIEM components, and the types of SIEM solutions in Splunk Enterprise Security.
Splunk Basics and Installation: What Splunk is, Splunk architecture and components, the Splunk interface, and installing Splunk on Linux, Windows, and Splunk Cloud.
Splunk Apps: What Splunk apps are, how the Splunk App Store works, and how apps extend what Splunk can do.
Getting Data into Splunk: Data routing and indexing, installing forwarders on Linux and Windows, and configuring file, directory, local, remote, network, and scripted inputs, including Windows input types.
Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL): SPL syntax, search commands, and functions for searching, filtering, and transforming your data.
Reports, Dashboards, and Alerts: Creating reports and dashboards for recurring searches, visualizing outputs, and alerting on high-priority events.
Regular Expressions: Regex basics, plain-text and range searches, special characters and escape sequences, and shortcut character classes, practiced with Regex101.
Ransomware Investigation: Identify the victim system, removable media, the malicious file, suspicious processes, file server connections, the first suspect domain, and the encrypted files.
APT Investigation: Find the IP scanning a web server, identify the vulnerability scanner and the target server, trace a brute force attack, and identify the uploaded executable and its hash.
Who Is This Course For?
Aspiring SOC Analysts: Learners who want a structured path into security monitoring and incident investigation.
Security Analysts and Blue Team Members: Defenders who want to use Splunk to search, correlate, and report on security data.
IT and System Administrators: Professionals who want to collect and analyze logs from the systems they run.
Splunk Beginners: People who are new to Splunk and want to learn it from installation to dashboards.
SIEM Beginners: Learners who want to understand what a SIEM does before choosing a tool.
Students and Career Changers: People moving into cybersecurity who want practical, investigation-based practice.
No previous Splunk or SIEM experience is required. The course starts with the fundamentals and builds toward investigations.
Why Learn Splunk for SOC and SIEM?
Splunk is a data platform that collects, indexes, and analyzes machine-generated data such as logs. Many organizations use it for security monitoring, which makes it a practical skill for anyone working in a SOC.
SOC and SIEM skills apply to roles such as SOC analyst, security analyst, SIEM analyst, and IT or systems administrator. Reading logs, writing searches, and building alerts are daily tasks in these roles, so the SOC and SIEM concepts you learn here keep their value on any platform.
Why Choose This Course?
SOC, SIEM, and Splunk in one learning path. You learn how a SOC works, what SIEM does, and how to use Splunk, so each topic connects to the next.
You learn by investigating. The ransomware and APT workshops walk through real analyst questions, so you practice searching for answers in data instead of only reading about it.
You set it up yourself. You install Splunk on Linux, Windows, and Splunk Cloud, install forwarders, and configure inputs, so you know how data arrives before you search it.
SPL and regex taught step by step. Search syntax, commands, functions, and regular expressions are explained from the start, so complex searches stop looking like code you cannot read.
From search to monitoring. Reports, dashboards, and alerts turn your searches into something a team can use every day.
You test yourself as you go. Quizzes after the main sections show you what you understood while it is still fresh.
You study at your own pace. Revisit any lesson as often as you like.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Splunk?
Splunk is a data platform that collects, indexes, and analyzes machine-generated data such as logs. Organizations use it to search that data, build reports and dashboards, and raise alerts, including for security monitoring. This course teaches Splunk from installation to dashboards.
What is SIEM?
SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) is a system that collects logs from across an organization's IT infrastructure, correlates events, and helps security teams detect and respond to threats. This course explains SIEM planning, architecture, data collection, and components.
What is a SOC?
A SOC (Security Operations Center) is the team, process, and technology that monitors an organization's systems for security threats and responds to them. This course covers the people, process, runbooks, and technology that make up a SOC.
Is Splunk a SIEM?
Splunk is a data platform, and with its security offerings, such as Splunk Enterprise Security, it is used as a SIEM. This course explains SIEM concepts and uses Splunk to collect, search, and report on security data.
What is SPL in Splunk?
SPL (Search Processing Language) is Splunk's query language for searching, filtering, and transforming data. This course covers SPL syntax, search commands, and functions.
What are the main Splunk components?
Forwarders send data to Splunk, indexers store and index it, and search heads let you search and report on it. This course covers Splunk architecture and how to identify each component.
Does the course cover installing Splunk?
Yes. You learn how to install Splunk on Linux, Windows, and Splunk Cloud, and how to install forwarders on Linux and Windows.
Does the course include hands-on investigations?
Yes. The ransomware workshop has three parts and the APT scenario has two, and in each you investigate an attack in Splunk by answering analyst questions step by step.
Does the course cover regular expressions?
Yes. A full section covers regex from plain-text searches and ranges to special characters, escape sequences, and shortcut character classes.
Can beginners take this course?
Yes. The course starts with SOC and SIEM fundamentals and builds toward Splunk searches and investigations. No previous Splunk or SIEM experience is required.
Does this course prepare me for a Splunk certification?
The skills you build here, installing Splunk, getting data in, searching with SPL, and creating reports and dashboards, are the foundation Splunk's entry-level certifications build on. This is not a dedicated exam-prep course for a specific Splunk certification.
What jobs use Splunk?
Splunk is used by SOC analysts, security analysts, SIEM analysts, and IT and systems administrators who work with logs and monitoring. The skills in this course, from log analysis to alerting, are the ones these roles use every day.
How long is the course?
The course has more than 16 hours of video, with quizzes after the main sections and workshops at the end.
Will this course help me start a career as a SOC analyst?
Yes, it builds a foundation for it. You learn how a SOC works, how SIEM collects and correlates data, and how to search, report, and investigate in Splunk, which are core SOC analyst skills.
Why Choose OAK Academy?
Our answer is simple: the quality of teaching.
Based in London, OAK Academy is an online education company offering courses on Udemy in IT, software, design, and development, in many languages. Students' questions are answered by our instructors in the course Q&A section.
Clear Video and Audio: See clearly, hear clearly, and learn without distractions.
Lifetime Access: Come back to any lesson whenever you want to review a topic.
Fast, Friendly Q&A Support: Ask your questions in the course Q&A section.
Certificate of Completion: Download your Udemy certificate when you finish the course.
Start Your Splunk SOC and SIEM Journey Today
Learn how a SOC works, search your data with SPL, and investigate real attack scenarios in Splunk, one step at a time.
Enroll today in the Splunk Fundamentals for Effective Management of SOC and SIEM course and take your next step toward a career in security monitoring.
Who this course is for:
- Security Analysts
- IT Security Professionals
- System Administrators
- Anyone Interested in Security Information Management (SIEM)
- Anyone who wants to learn Splunk