This is a weekly newsletter & blog post of Level Effect activity meant to inform and update you on what we’re up to! Thank you for tuning in. 📺

Table of Contents

• 1. Brand

  • Course Bundles!

    • Self-Paced

    • Live Training

    • Custom Bundles?

• 2. Content

  • SOC100-2 through 5 Released!

  • CDA Live Course Object

  • CDCP - AWS Malware Flagged FIXED!

  • SOC100-1 Class 12 and 13

• 3. Community

• 4. Tools

• 5. Takeaway This Week

Hello! 👋 

Hope you all had a good week last week. It’s almost December ☃️ !

Lots of updates again this past week with some exciting updates on the bundle side.

Let’s jump into it!

1. Brand

Course Bundles!

They’re here! https://training.leveleffect.com with additional discounts that stack with the current Black Friday pricing! Also EXTENDING the sale to December 9th to celebrate the bundle feature! 🔥

REMINDER - Any package with CDA can also transfer 59 credits to a Bachelor’s of Science at Purdue Global!

Self-Paced

SOC Analyst Tier 1 - Go from starting up Windows to Tier 1 tickets in a Virtual SOC over 5 months with the entire SOC100 series!

SOC Analyst Tier 2 - All the T1 content included at no cost with a CDA purchase, readying you up to T2 triage. “You invest, we invest.”

Detection & AI Engineer - Cybersecurity is a data problem. Detect threats and utilize data science & AI to solve this.

AI Security Analyst - Combine your T1-2 triage abilities with data science techniques to start securing the rapid growth of AI.

SOC Analyst of DE&TH - An Analyst that can write detection rules is a valuable asset to any organization.

SOC Analyst of DE&TH & AI - The whole catalog! You can triage, defend, and prevent threats while utilizing data science & AI to maximize effectiveness. You’re an incredibly valuable asset to any team after this.

Live Training

CDA Live Upgrade - Own CDA? Upgrade to the Instructor-led version with exclusive live compromised host challenges, 1 on 1s, mock technical interviews, virtual SOC walkthroughs and more.

Cyber Defense Analyst (CDA) Live - The full live class experience in one bundle with SOC100 content included.

ALL IN - Everything in our catalog including all the benefits of live Instructor-led training. You’re unstoppable now.

Custom Bundles? 

Looking to buy for two people or purchased courses that don’t match a bundle? just email us at [email protected] and we’ll get a discount for you in. This includes those that purchased SOC100-1 for more than $19 and want to upgrade to CDA with their discount.

Reminder on current sale pricing:

2. Content

SOC100-2 through 5 Released!

We’ve released the courses for now to make it easier to line up purchases and take advantages of our sales and bundles. It also makes it less confusing on the student (and us)! Release windows:

SOC100-2 - Dec 14

SOC100-3 - Feb 1

SOC100-4 - Feb 1

SOC100-5 - Mar 1

There is a “gated content” lesson at the start informing when the content will release.

CDA Live Course Object

CDA Live is now just a single upgrade course object. You choose the cohort you want to be part of inside when you buy it. 😀 Much easier!

CDCP - AWS Malware Flagged FIXED!

We’ve resolved the issue with the AWS malware flagging and CDCP is set to go for Dec 3rd release next week, look out for the release info then!

SOC100-1 Class 12 and 13

We finished up Networking diving into some malware traffic analysis and kicked off Enterprise Windows configuring our first Domain Controller!

3. Community

Loving all the community support in the SOC100 chat, good job students! Also a great shoutout and seeing BlackHammer use their Linux experience in the course to troubleshoot an issue successfully! 💪

4. Tools

As we come across recommended tools or guides or have them shared to us, we’ll start adding them to the newsletter/blog here on out!

• https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxupskillchallenge/ There’s a daily upskill challenge going on right now to get better with Linux! Thank you Sy for the share!

• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/opnsensekali-linux-cybersecurity-lab-bagley-crowder-vabkc/ Great guide for setting up an OPNsense firewall & Kali linux home lab, thank you KSJ!

• https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L_202402847 The EU Cyber Resilience Act is set to enter into force soon. It presents cybersecurity standards for products with digital elements in the EU! Thank you Calvin!

5. Takeaway This Week

See you next week!

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