Episode 21 — Spaced Review: cement SOC tooling choices, integrations, and secure implementation habits
This episode reinforces how GSOM expects you to think about SOC technology decisions as operational systems that must stay reliable, secure, and supportable over time, not as a one-time procurement checklist. You will quickly revisit what SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and case tooling each contribute, then focus on integration fundamentals that make the data trustworthy, including normalization, time alignment, enrichment, and clear ownership of pipelines and parsers. We will connect these themes to exam-style decision points such as choosing the most defensible next step when alerts spike after a parser change, or when an integration introduces excessive privileges that create a new compromise path. You will also practice secure implementation habits like least privilege for service accounts, change control for detection rules and automations, monitoring the monitoring stack, and building rollback and health-check routines so the SOC can prove coverage rather than assume it. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.
