Security teams today face an overwhelming challenge: incidents pile up faster than analysts can respond, while compliance demands, insider threats, and advanced attacks stretch already thin resources. Organizations don’t just want defenders who can analyze traffic—they need professionals who can automate and orchestrate response at scale. For early-career analysts, mastering SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) with AI is a fast track to becoming indispensable. In this module, you’ll learn how to design, customize, and automate SOAR playbooks that take immediate action when threats emerge. You’ll start by building playbooks for common incidents, then expand into customizing open-source platforms like StackStorm with your own Python scripts and API integrations. Finally, you’ll explore how AI can supercharge SOAR automation, helping you handle phishing, malware, and suspicious activity without manual delays. By the end of this module, you will be able to: Build and trigger automated SOAR playbooks for common incident types. Customize SOAR environments with Python scripting and ML integrations. Automate incident reporting and collaboration across security teams. Implement AI-enhanced response workflows that reduce downtime and analyst workload. These are not abstract skills—they are the workflows SOCs use daily to scale their defenses. Completing this module means you’ll be able to walk into an interview or a new role and show that you know how to move beyond analysis into automation, a capability that organizations urgently need to keep pace with modern threats.

Most organizations already run intrusion detection systems, firewalls, and SIEM tools — yet sophisticated attackers still find ways to slip through. They move quietly, hide in normal traffic, and exploit blind spots that leave security teams scrambling. Traditional defenses are reactive, waiting for alerts to fire. Modern blue teams need to go beyond waiting — they need to hunt for threats proactively. This module equips you with the skills to use AI-assisted threat hunting and response to uncover stealthy attackers before they cause damage. You’ll learn how to generate and test hunting hypotheses with AI support, enrich intelligence with automated context, and reduce alert fatigue by tuning and scaling SOAR playbooks for multinational environments. Each lesson links real-world SOC challenges — such as false positives, insider threats, or global compliance — to practical AI-enabled workflows. By the end of this module, you’ll understand how to combine AI tools with analyst judgment to detect, validate, and respond to advanced threats. These skills are urgently sought in SOC and incident response teams worldwide, and they’ll set you apart as someone who can bridge the gap between traditional defense and modern AI-driven security.