The Cyber Security Career Boost Program
A 6-month interactive program to learn fundamental security technologies and boost your career prospects.
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Course overview
Course Description
Join me as I take you to step by step through the process of becoming a Splunk expert. We will go from the basics of what is a SIEM platform to what exactly is Splunk? If you want to gain cyber and business knowledge beyond just being an analyst or engineer welcome to ECA.
Who is this course for
01
Cyber and IT professionals who want to learn and understand how to use Splunk and SIEM technologies in a realistic and applicable way.
02
Beginners to experienced professionals who want a step-by-step detailed program that will take them from A-Z as it pertains to fundamentals
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Professionals who want to be challenged with real industry lab work, assignments, and capstone presentations taught by Cyber practitioners.
What you’ll get out of this Program
Learn the Fundamentals
You will actively practice the fundamental concepts of SIEM technologies such as logging monitoring, alerting, and detection so wherever you get hired or work at you won't get pigeonholed into technology stack.
Practical Security Analyst Experience
You will practice the ins and out of how to use Splunk from an analyst perspective, such as building reports, creating beautiful and detailed visualizations for dashboards, and creating complex SPL queries.
Building your own Lab Environment
You'll learn how to install and configure a Splunk instance on an AWS Linux server, so you can run and manage your very own lab environment. We'll demonstrate best practices in diagramming out the fundamental concepts of Splunk Architecture.
Real World Cyber Security Experience
Will have the ability to present work on and present real-world capstone projects in front of Cyber Security hiring managers during the program. Along with networking, and collaborating with other hungry and driven SIEM professionals.
Level Up Your Candidacy: Resume & LinkedIn Review
Get your resume and LinkedIn pages reviewed by our career partner TechTual. TechTual is a minority-owned firm specializing in tailoring resumes for cybersecurity professionals. All ECA students get 30 percent off of their services.
Hear what past students have to say
Courtney Wright
Hugh Shepherd Jr.
Bryan Budgett
Hazel Miranda
Meet your instructors
Kenneth Ellington
Kenneth Ellington
Founder of the Ellington Cyber Academy
Kenneth Ellington is a rising cybersecurity professional who is dedicated to nurturing new cybersecurity talent. A Florida native now based in Dallas-Fort Worth Texas, he’s leveraged his unyielding drive to go from working at the deli counter to landing a Big 4 Senior Cybersecurity Consulting role - all within 3 fast-paced years. His current specialties are in SIEM, SOAR, and endpoint security.
In his trainings, Kenneth brings that same energy and passion to students as they learn about security solutions and address real-world scenarios. He also teaches Cyber Infrastructure part-time at the University of Houston, volunteers for non-profit Blacks in Cyber Security (BIC), and trains in boxing and kickboxing in his free time.
Courtney Wright
Courtney Wright
Associate Instructor
Courtney Wright works in Cybersecurity as a SOC Analyst and is an ECA graduate with two key goals: build a career in cybersecurity engineering and motivate/support others in career pivots towards technology.
Her journey learning SIEM/SOAR began earlier in 2022 with Blacks in Cybersecurity, and continues as she is constantly building her expertise with security technologies. Courtney is a Maryland native. She is also a member of Blacks in Cybersecurity (BIC) and Women in CyberSecurity (WiCys). When she is not working or attending school she loves to exercise, garden, and practice martial arts.
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Course syllabus
59 lessons • 23 projects
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
- 📄
How to properly onboard Windows Data
Complete by Jun 23 - 📄
Windows Investigation's
Complete by Jun 23 - 📄
Windows Detection Rules
Complete by Jun 23 - ✍️
Windows Assignment
Submit by Jun 23
18.0 Windows Investigation's
Covering Installing a Windows Forwarder and learning how to Splunk windows logs.
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
Week 14
Week 15
Week 16
Week 17
Week 18
Week 19
Week 20
Week 21
Week 22
Week 23
Week 24
Week 25
Week 26
Week 27
Week 28
Week 29
Week 30
Week 31
Bonus
- 📄
Welcome to the Introduction to Splunk Program!
Complete by Apr 26 - 📄
About the Instructor
Complete by Apr 26 - 📄
What to Expect
Complete by Apr 26 - 📄
Article - Splunk State of the Security 2022
Complete by Apr 26 - ✍️
Student Agreement
Submit by Apr 25 - 📄
What exactly is a SIEM?
Complete by Apr 28 - 📄
Understanding why Monitoring, Detection, Logging and Collection in a SIEM platform
Complete by Apr 28 - 📄
UBEA (User Behavior Analytics)
Complete by Apr 28 - ✍️
Business Scenario (No need to Submit)
Submit by Apr 28 - ✍️
Assignments
Submit by Apr 29 - 📄
What the Hell is Splunk and why do firms use Splunk?
Complete by Apr 30 - 📄
Define Splunk Apps
Complete by Apr 30 - 📄
Navigating through Splunk Web and customizing your user settings
Complete by Apr 30 - ✍️
Assignments
Submit by May 1 - 📄
What is a Forwarder?
Complete by May 3 - 📄
What is an Indexer?
Complete by May 3 - 📄
What exactly is a Search Head?
Complete by May 3 - 📄
Full Data Pipeline Process
Complete by May 3 - ✍️
Assignments
Submit by May 5 - 📄
Article - Splunk Fast-track-your-multicloud-monitoring-initiative
Complete by May 4 - 📄
Creating a Splunk and AWS Account
Complete by May 5 - 📄
Downloading Splunk Enterprise on a Linux Machine
Complete by May 5 - 📄
Configuring your AWS Instance and logging into Splunk Web
Complete by May 5 - ✍️
Assignments
Submit by May 6 - 📄
Search and Reporting App Running Basic Searches
Complete by May 11 - 📄
Best practices for setting the time range
Complete by May 11 - 📄
Contents of Search Results and Saving your Search Results
Complete by May 11 - ✍️
Assignments
Submit by May 12 - 📄
Learning the 3 primary ways to get data into Splunk
Complete by May 12 - 📄
Doing a static ingestion of our datasets for the lab environment
Complete by May 12 - ✍️
Assignments
Submit by May 13 - 📄
Reviewing basic search commands
Complete by May 14 - 📄
Using the Following commands to perform searches: tables rename fields, dedup & sort
Complete by May 14 - 📄
Search Best Practices
Complete by May 14 - ✍️
Assignments
Submit by May 15 - 📄
Article - Elastic Guide-to-high-volume-data-sources-for-siem
Complete by May 14 - 📄
The Top Command
Complete by May 17 - 📄
The Rare Command
Complete by May 17 - 📄
The Stats Command
Complete by May 17 - ✍️
Assignments
Submit by May 17 - 📄
What are Dashboards and Reports?
Complete by May 19 - 📄
How to Create Reports
Complete by May 19 - 📄
How to Create Dashboards
Complete by May 19 - ✍️
Capstone/Assignment
Submit by May 20 - 📄
Describing and Configuring Scheduled Reports
Complete by May 24 - 📄
Describing and Creating Alerts
Complete by May 24 - ✍️
Capstone One Draft
Submit by May 26 - ✍️
Capstone/Assignments
Submit by May 30 - 📄
What to Expect
Complete by May 31 - 📄
Overview of Part One of the Introduction Program
Complete by May 31 - 📄
Preparing to Start Part 2 of the Program
Complete by May 31 - ✍️
Business Scenario part 2
Submit by Jun 1 - ✍️
Assignments
Submit by Jun 1 - 📄
Using and Understanding the Chart Command
Complete by Jun 2 - 📄
Using and Understanding the Timechart Command
Complete by Jun 2 - ✍️
Assignment
Submit by Jun 3 - 📄
Understanding and Using the Eval Command
Complete by Jun 4 - 📄
Learning to filter results by using the search and where commands
Complete by Jun 4 - 📄
Understanding and using the fillnull command
Complete by Jun 4 - ✍️
Assignment
Submit by Jun 6 - 📄
Article - Microsoft Security How the Cloud is Transforming Security Operations
Complete by Jun 5 - 📄
Learning understanding how to create and use field aliases
Complete by Jun 7 - 📄
Learning understanding how to use calculated fields
Complete by Jun 7 - 📄
Understanding and using tags
Complete by Jun 7 - 📄
Describing and creating event types
Complete by Jun 7 - 📄
Learning how to create Workflows
Complete by Jun 7 - ✍️
Assignment
Submit by Jun 8 - 📄
Learning the differences between a data model and a pivot
Complete by Jun 8 - 📄
Creating a Data Model
Complete by Jun 8 - 📄
Creating a Pivot based off of a Data Model
Complete by Jun 8 - ✍️
Assignment
Submit by Jun 10 - 📄
Understanding what the Splunk CIM is and why it is important
Complete by Jun 11 - 📄
Listing the knowledge objects that come with the Splunk CIM Add-On
Complete by Jun 11 - ✍️
Assignment
Submit by Jun 12 - ✍️
Capstone Two Draft
Submit by Jun 16 - ✍️
Final Capstone
Submit by Jun 20 - 📄
Parting Words
Complete by Jun 19 - 📄
Splunk Security Essential's
1.0 Introduction
2.0 SIEM Fundamental's
3.0 Splunk Basics
4.0 Core Architecture
5.0 Downloading and Installing Splunk Enterprise
6.0 Basic Searching
7.0 Ingesting Data
8.0 Search Language Fundamentals and Understanding Fields
9.0 Using Basic Transforming Commands
10.0 Creating Reports and Dashboards
11.0 Creating Scheduled Reports and Alerts
12.0 Welcome to Part 2 of the Introduction Program!
13.0 More Transforming Commands and Visualization's
14.0 How to Filter and Format Results
15.0 Knowledge Objects Tags and Event Types
16.0 Understanding what and how to use a Data Model
17.0 using and Understanding the Common Information Model (CIM) Add-On
Bonus Content
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Course schedule
5-7 hrs/week (all sessions are recorded)
Wednesdays
6:30pm - 9:00pm CST
The class will be every Wednesday night unless specified otherwise from 6:30 pm-9:00 pm.
Self-paced lessons
1 hour per week
You will also get short videos and separate articles to read during the time periods that you are not in class. The videos are to guide you throughout the week and any extra questions that you have can be asked during the virtual class sessions.
Weekly projects
2 hours per week
You will have quizzes and assignments due throughout the week, some will be hands-on in the lab environment and some will be articles. This will allow you to have the ability to talk to C-Level personnel and actually do the Cyber Security work.
Learning is better with cohorts
Active hands-on learning
Every virtual class is designed to build off of each other and give you the knowledge to succeed. Classes are designed to be extremely interactive and collaborative. So there will be time throughout to discuss topics from the articles that are given.
Interactive and project-based
The Capstone projects are projects that I helped create with the help of hiring managers at Fortune 500 companies so the skills you learn here are applicable to what you will be doing once you get hired in your Cyber role.
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded SIEM and cyber professionals who want to learn and grow alongside you.
Can't make the cohort? Try ECA's self-paced alternative on Teachable.
Set your own pace
Learn whenever works best for you - nights, weekends, or all at once
Master the basics, step-by-step
Start from the beginning and build your knowledge with each module
Access helpful resources 24/7
Immerse yourself in course material with quizzes, links, and assignments