Junior Security Analyst Intro
Play through a day in the life of a Security Analyst and experience their everyday duties.
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Security Analyst Journey
Welcome to the cyber security - a world of evolving threats, where every click could hide an attack, and every attack could destroy the business. This is why we need defenders who analyze attacks, stop breaches, and keep companies safe. Your journey as a Junior Security Analyst begins here, in this TryHackMe room!
You start your work day from a quick scrolling through the cyber news for the last week. As usual, big companies are getting breached, threat groups are running full-scale attacks, and new vulnerabilities are popping here and there. You are the first line of defense, and every day you protect your company from apeearing in the cyber news.
Above are the cyber news for September 2025 (The Hacker News)
Your Daily Duties
As a Junior Security Analyst, also called a SOC Level 1 Analyst, you work in a 24/7 SOC team and mostly review the security alerts together with your colleagues. To do it efficiently, you will need practice and skills learned through this path. During your work shift, you would typically:
- Monitor and investigate various security alerts
- Participate in SOC brainstorms and workshops
- Cooperate with other teams to keep your company safe
- Constantly learn and discover new attacks and defenses
Which team do you work with as a Junior Security Analyst?
SOC and Your Team
You are not alone in monitoring the alerts and securing the whole company. A lot of people support you with your job. SOC engineers are configuring the security tools, senior analysts are helping with complex attacks, and a manager is trying to keep everything under control. A Security Operations Center (SOC) is your big team that protects the company, each role in its own way. Now, let's meet your colleagues!
Your Daily Duties
Are you inspired by your colleagues' work and wish to advance to their roles? Cyber security is a broad field, and with time you'll find the path that excites you most. But before that, you need to gain work experience as a Junior Security Analyst. Along the way, you'll have many lessons and challenges, where you may:
- Detect and prevent a data stealer infection on a coworker's laptop
- Analyze and stop a phishing campaign targeting the finance team
- Participate in a bigger incident, such as a full-scale ransomware attack
- Team up with your teammates to build detection rules and automations
- Go beyond cyber and understand how companies operate from the inside
Continue to the next task!
Being a Security Analyst
Being in the defensive frontline is not easy, as you have to constantly learn new things. During a busy 8-hour shift, you might be buried under a mountain of "tickets" - the alerts and tasks that you need to resolve in a timely manner. Still, the job is fun and rewarding, especially after you stop a real threat from damaging your organization. Even better, it is fascinating to know how the attacks you hear about in the news actually happen in the real world.
Now, are you ready to immerse yourself in the role of a Security Analyst?
Click on the green View Site button above to open the attached lab.
Navigate to the alert dashboard on the right and answer the questions.
Click on the green View Site button in this task and open the lab.
What was the malicious IP address in the alerts?
To whom did you escalate the alert with the malicious IP?
What message did you get after blocking the IP address on the firewall?
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