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Course Description

In this course, you will be provided with a conceptual overview of logs and their role in Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) and Security Information and Event Management tools (SIEMs). The course will discuss the general concept of an IDS and how it works to detect attacks before highlighting specific IDS and SIEM products, such as Suricata, Splunk and Google SecOps (Chronicle), respectively. You will then develop an understanding of how to access and navigate within Suricata and how basic rules are set up to provide alerts, events, and logs for malicious network traffic. This course will conclude with an introduction to Splunk and Google SecOps (Chronicle) and will showcase some of their features, including common commands.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

- Discuss the importance of logs during incident investigation

- Determine how to read and analyze logs during incident investigation

- Describe how common intrusion detection system (IDS) tools provide security value

- Interpret the basic syntax and components of signatures and logs in IDS and NIDS tools

- Describe how SIEM tools collect, normalize, and analyze log data

Learner Outcomes

  • Understand basic syntax, components of signatures and logs in Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) tools

  • Perform queries in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools to investigate an event

  • Determine how to read and analyze logs during incident investigation

  • Describe how common intrusion detection system (IDS) tools provide security value

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

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Section Title
Network Traffic and Logs Using IDS and SIEM Tools
Type
Online
Dates
Jan 01, 2026 to Dec 31, 2026
Course Fee(s)
Registration Fee non-credit $49.00
Drop Request Deadline
2 days after enrollment
Transfer Request Deadline
2 days after enrollment
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