Flagship project
SIEM Home Lab
A Splunk or Wazuh lab collecting logs from Windows and Linux machines.
- Wireshark
- Kali Linux
- Windows
Cyber & Cloud · techcadd AmritsarNew
SOC Analyst course in Amritsar
SOC Analyst course in AmritsarTrain for the security operations centre — monitoring alerts, investigating incidents and responding with a SIEM, the entry role most cyber careers start in.
2 – 3 monthsBeginner to intermediateClassroom & live online
4.7/5
Student rating
6
Structured modules
4+
Portfolio projects
Yes
Placement support
About the programme
Course overview
Course overviewA SOC analyst watches an organisation's security alerts, separates real attacks from noise and escalates what matters. This course trains that daily workflow on real tools, from log sources to a written incident report.
The soc analyst programme at techcadd Amritsar is built the way the work is actually done: you handle the data, train and break the models, then ship something that runs. Tools such as Splunk, Wazuh, Wireshark are installed on your own machine in week one, not shown on a slide in week ten.
It runs across 2 – 3 months with morning, evening and weekend batches, and every module closes in a reviewable artefact. By the end you hold a certificate, a portfolio, and the ability to talk through your own decisions in an interview for a soc analyst (l1) role.
Every concept is implemented before it is examinedMentors are working practitioners, not career trainersProjects are reviewed line by line, not just marked completeDoubt sessions and lab access run outside batch hours
- Duration
- 2 – 3 months
- Level
- Beginner to intermediate
- Mode
- Classroom & live online
- Batches
- Morning, evening & weekend
Eligibility
Who can join the SOC Analyst course
Who can join the SOC Analyst courseThere is no entrance test and no restrictive prerequisite. What follows is what the programme actually checks for before you enrol.
- Educational backgroundNo specific degree or stream required — school leavers, graduates and career switchers all qualify.
- Prior experienceNone required. The programme opens at beginner level and builds from there across 2 – 3 months.
- AgeNo upper age limit. What matters is being able to commit to the full course rather than dropping off midway.
- EquipmentA laptop or desktop with a stable internet connection for classroom or live-online batches.
- Time commitmentAble to attend regularly across 2 – 3 months, in a morning, evening or weekend batch.
Where it leads
The roles this portfolio opens
Job titles vary by company, but the underlying expectations do not. Each destination below maps to work you will have already done during the programme.
The honest pitch
Why this programme is worth your year
Why this programme is worth your yearMost soc analyst training in this region stops at the tutorial: you follow along, the notebook runs, nothing is retained. This programme is built the other way round — every module hands you an unfinished problem and a deadline, and a mentor reviews what you did with it.
That is slower and harder than watching lectures. It is also the only version that survives an interview, because the questions there are about the decisions you made, not the code you copied.
Project review week at the Amritsar campus
Mentors mark up work line by line
Hiring drive & mock interview day
Practitioners run the panel, not HR
Tools you will actually use
The working stack for SOC Analyst
Tools and technologies coveredEvery tool below is installed, configured and used by you during the course — not demonstrated on a slide. You leave able to set up your own environment from scratch.
8tools covered
Core
- Splunk
- Wazuh
- Wireshark
Working set
- Kali Linux
- Windows
- Ubuntu Linux
Shipping
- VirtualBox
- Excel
Certification
Get certified in SOC Analyst
Get certified in SOC AnalystIssued on completion against the modules you finished and the projects you submitted — plus an internship letter where the industrial training track applies. Shareable to LinkedIn, and verifiable by an employer who calls the Amritsar desk.
- Module-wise assessment, not attendance-based
- Project submissions logged against your certificate
- Internship letter on the industrial training track
- Verifiable directly with the campus office
Module by module
Open any module and see exactly what happens inside it
Module by module curriculum6 modules, each ending in something reviewable that goes into your portfolio.
Module 01 of 06Cyber & Cloud
Security & SOC Fundamentals
Security & SOC Fundamentals is where the SOC Analyst track gets its footing. You work the concepts in the lab first, then carry them straight into the running project rather than leaving them as isolated exercises.
Skills you build
- How a SOC operates
- Tiers, shifts and escalation
- Common attack types
Tools in this module
SplunkWazuhWiresharkKali Linux
You finish with
A reviewed piece of work demonstrating how a soc operates and tiers, shifts and escalation.
Future scope
Where soc analyst is headed from here
Where soc analyst is headed from hereA certificate answers what you can do today. This is the honest answer to what soc analyst looks like three to five years out, and why the fundamentals this course spends real time on are what carry you there.
- Demand is structural, not seasonalEvery workload a business moves online creates a workload that needs securing, and breach headlines have turned that budget line non-negotiable rather than optional.
- The skill ladder keeps climbingSOC Analyst (L1) is the entry rung, not the ceiling. Once that portfolio is in place, security monitoring analyst is the realistic next step — a promotion earned on the job, not a second course you have to go back and pay for.
- Tooling changes; fundamentals compoundSplunk and the rest of the stack will look different in five years — they always do. What does not expire is the fundamentals this course is built around, which is why the syllabus is reviewed each intake instead of frozen once and reused.
- Remote and hybrid widen the marketA soc analyst portfolio built in Amritsar competes for the same remote and hybrid roles as anywhere else. Companies hiring for this work are increasingly indifferent to which city the offer letter is posted to.
The 2 – 3 months programme is built around the part that is genuinely in your hands — and you leave holding all of it.
A reviewed portfolio, an industry-recognised certificate and a fundamentals-first foundation you can keep building on. Markets move, as they always have; that foundation is exactly what lets you move with them as cyber and cloud work around you keeps shifting.
What you build
Projects that answer the interview question for you
Portfolio projectsEach project is reviewed individually, and the review notes go into your portfolio documentation.
Phishing Investigation
A suspicious email traced from header to payload with a written verdict.
- Windows
- Ubuntu Linux
- VirtualBox
Live SOC Brief
Alerts from a lab modelled on a real techcadd client environment, triaged and escalated.
- VirtualBox
- Excel
- Splunk
Incident Report
A simulated breach investigated end to end and documented for management.
- Splunk
- Wazuh
- Wireshark
The working loop
Learn it. Build it. Make it yours.
Learn it. Build it. Make it yours.Every project moves through the same loop: understand the brief, build it with guidance, then explain the decisions behind your work. The certificate is the receipt — the portfolio is the point.
- 01
Understand
Break a real requirement into a plan, the constraints it has to live inside, and the right tool for each part of it.
SIEM Home Lab
- 02
Build
Work hands-on with trainer feedback arriving while the decisions are still cheap to change.
Phishing Investigation
- 03
Present
Turn the finished work into a portfolio story you can defend line by line in an interview.
Live SOC Brief
Why choose SOC Analyst
Why students choose techcadd
Why students choose techcaddTwo decades of training in Amritsar, in a format that has not changed since: small batches, real projects, mentors who still work in the field.
- 01
Practitioner-led teaching
Your mentor works in soc analyst for a living. The examples in class come from that work, and so do the shortcuts.
- 02
Small, fixed batches
Batch sizes are capped so a raised hand gets answered in the session it was raised in, not weeks later.
- 03
Reviewed, not marked
Every submission comes back annotated, line by line. The notes are the point — they are what you carry into the interview.
- 04
Current tooling
We teach Splunk, Wazuh, Wireshark and refresh the list each intake, because a stale stack is worse than no stack.
- 05
Flexible batches
Morning, evening and weekend tracks, classroom or live online, with recordings either way for revision.
- 06
Support that continues
Resume and portfolio review, mock interviews and hiring-drive access — and it does not stop the day the course ends.
Student reviews
What the last few batches actually said
SOC Analyst course reviewsCollected from students who completed the soc analyst programme at the Amritsar campus, across morning, evening and weekend batches. Hover a card to stop the row and read it.
4.7
out of 5
205 verified reviews from Amritsar students
- 5★
- 81%
- 4★
- 11%
- 3★
- 5%
- 2★
- 2%
- 1★
- 1%
I joined the SOC Analyst batch with almost no background, and what made the difference was that security & soc fundamentals was taught by building rather than by slides. By the third week I was debugging my own code instead of copying someone else's.
The project reviews are the real value. My phishing investigation was picked apart line by line, and those notes are exactly what I ended up talking through in the interview that got me a security monitoring analyst offer.
Weekend batches meant I kept my job through the whole 2 – 3 months. Anything I missed got re-explained without fuss, and lab access outside batch hours was never a problem.
VirtualBox and the rest of the stack were set up on day one, so no week went into environment issues. Batches are small enough that a doubt gets answered the same day instead of piling up.
I had tried learning soc analyst on my own twice and stalled both times. A fixed batch in Amritsar, a mentor who checks your work and a deadline on every module is the only reason I finished.
Placement support was not just a line on the brochure — resume and portfolio review, two mock interviews with people who do the job, and a referral into one of the hiring drives.
The syllabus is current. We worked in Ubuntu Linux rather than the older tooling most soc analyst syllabi around here still teach, and that came up directly in my first interview.
The balance of theory to lab time is about right: enough to understand why something works, then straight into building. I left with 4 projects I can demo, not just a certificate.
Before you enrol
Questions we get asked at the admissions desk
Frequently asked questionsIf something here is not covered, the Amritsar desk will answer it directly — no call-back queue.
No. The programme opens at beginner level and assumes no background beyond comfort with a computer. Students who already have some exposure move through the early modules faster and spend the saved time on project work.
