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Certification Splunk "Certified Cybersecurity Defense Analyst" - Free (Beta phase/ Save US$130) @ Splunk

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Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Analyst
Validate your skills to start as a SOC analyst using Splunk analytics, threat-hunting, risk-based alerting and industry best practices.

Advance your cybersecurity analytics and insights
Further your cybersecurity career and use cyber defense tools for continual monitoring as a security analyst. Help protect businesses and mitigate risk, while managing vulnerabilities and threats using common types of cyber defense systems.

Who should take this exam?
This exam establishes an intermediate-level standard for users of Splunk Enterprise and Enterprise Security who wish to be certified as cybersecurity professionals. With this certification, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge critical to detecting, analyzing and combating cyber threats.

Career builders
Take your career to the next level by earning a certification that will help you climb the ranks as a Splunk certified professional.

SOC analysts
Solidify your position as a cybersecurity analyst and optimize your efficiency with Splunk Enterprise and Enterprise Security.

Cybersecurity professionals
Take your SOC analyst or cyber defense career further and level up as a Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Analyst.

Exam Details:

•Level: Intermediate
•Prerequisites: None
•Length: 75 minutes*
•Format: 60 multiple choice questions*
Pricing: FREE during beta testing* ($130 USD per exam attempt thereafter)
•Delivery: Exam is given by our testing partner, Pearson VUE
*Subject to change after beta testing phase.

Preparation:

•Review exam requirements and recommendations on the Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Analyst track flowchart.

•View recommended courses in the Splunk Certification Exams Study Guide.
Discover what to expect on the exam via the test blueprint.

•Get step-by-step registration assistance with the Exam Registration Tutorial.

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  • +23

    Dare you to say you have a "splunk certificate" in a job interview

    • +15

      If you are applying at optus, you have nothing to worry about

      • +4

        If you apply to any Top 500 in Australia you have nothing to worry about. Australia’s cybersecurity and breaching penalties are a joke.

  • +8

    "I have a son. He's 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it's unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe it's hardly do-able. But I will say, we are not doing the job we should be doing." -Orange Man

    • +4

      "You've gotta help us Doc, we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!"

    • +2

      Anyone who says "cyber"in a sentence like that, has already made it clear they aren't tech workers

    • Tone policing has its origins in racism. You need to check your biases.

      • Can't tell if joking

        • There’s no excuse for racism. Even insulting Trump isn’t an excuse for problematic behaviour.

  • -4

    Something something optus

  • +2

    Splunk

    The act of jumping into someones or somthings moist hole. I would go Splunking with her. I would splunk That.

  • Worth the time investment for someone not planning to become a SOC Analyst? Trying to pivot into SWE currently ..

    • +8

      not really, unless you have a specific interest in the area it won't do much for you. also note while the exam is a short easy multiple choice, actually learning to do this properly takes months if not years. All the exam really tests is that you can use splunk.

    • +1

      I think it is still worth it. Splunk is widely used by Software Engineers to trawl through application logs. This also expose you a bit to the security side of things.
      SWE is generally good with regular expressions so you should be at home with splunk and who knows you might be able to offer your service to build dashboards or splunk apps.

      • Cheers, I was having the same train of thought as this - all applications should probably have some level of logging.

    • I use Splunk daily as a SOC analyst. The cert itself wont get you a job, but it's certainly nice if you're applying at a Splunk shop and you can remove "using the toolset" as a barrier to entry.

      As said in other comments though, learning to drive after-hours in the Coles carpark is one thing, learning to drive like Schumacher is entirely another. Splunk can be a bit of a beast.

  • Comparison to the recent CISCO one posted?

  • +7

    Before anyone asks, yes, doing this 75minute training course with no actual job experience will get you a job right away in cybersecurity

    /s

    • +3

      Anyone impressed by this needs a cyber security expert, so I’d add it to the CV.

      • oh its definitely worth adding to a CV, i was just poking fun at the people who think doing a simple online course is going to get them into a 150K+ job without any experience

      • It's for people like this guy, who think some random FB ad for 'cyber' training equals 6 figure salary.

    • Sure does, especially if you can tick some of those extra points boxes for HR

    • +13

      Why would anyone be a tradie when you can do IT?

      • +6

        Far less headache during work (you don't need to use your brain). Far less education. Get paid while going to school. Guaranteed and hassle-free employment. Starting salary is much better. Lots of claimable deductions.

        • -1

          Yeah, agree, burnouts and headaches are common, but you can get into the industry quickly after a few months of bootcamp instead of apprenticeship these days and if you are diligent, salary will quickly increase and will catch up with tradies after couple of years.
          Unfortunately i dont have an excuse to tax claim a new ute, but thats ok.
          I also like using my brain, and it is a great exercise to keep it fit.
          Btw, i worked in construction before, engineering and site too

    • +5

      Because I get paid more, my commute is walking from my bedroom down the hall to my home office, and I am unlikely to injure myself in a way that could stop me earning.

      • +6

        Also how else can you browse ozbargain while earning?

      • -2

        Wfh is dying, as corporations try to shove that out. If you do injure yourself you get a hefty payout and work as an educator while still getting paid highly.

        • Wfh is dying

          At most it's becoming hybrid. For fields with shortages it will remain remote. Why bend to baseless corporate demands when recruiters are constantly hassling you to leave your job and join another company.

          Also companies pushing to kill wfh have a stake in the game and has nothing to do with productivity. (banks encouraging cbd/credit card spending/justifying lease rates in general as well as being unwilling to give up their own cbd office leases …etc)

        • +1

          my company sold the office floor they cant force us back to the office even if you go beg them to lmao

        • Yeah, nah. 22 years working remote and counting. Offices are nice places to visit occasionally.

    • Because you can spend more time on Oz Bargain while working.

    • +1

      Done both. Still think IT is better.

  • "FREE during beta testing"

    Anyone know how long this period is?

    I am doing a Masters in Cyber Security, so will definitely attempt this one! Thanks OP!

    • Good luck! Let us know the outcome. 👍

    • Had a look around the same, closes I could find was Fall 2023, so somewhere between sept-dec. I guess they’re waiting to see uptake and responses before deciding exactly when it will go live?

      This also has some exam requirements. Seems a bit easier their power user exam on first read. Hard to know

      https://www.splunk.com/en_us/pdfs/training/splunk-test-bluep…

  • +3

    Thanks to a certain ethnic demographics, these IT certs have become almost worthless and tend to attract more scrutiny than benefit. Coming from someone who hires in Cyber Security.

    • +15

      Dude the Germans never did anything to anyone, leave them out of this.

    • Members of the demographic you're hinting at are also in many other professions where certifications are required. Truth of the matter is, every large IT company wants an army of "certified" engineers, so they make the test easy to pass. If the certificate has to truly have value, make it practical and challenging. I'll wait.

    • Ditto for "computing degrees". The horror when you ask for an official transcript of individual subjects & their scores!

      • Dude, you're not meant to ask for the transcript. That's just rude.

    • +6

      If you think it is just people from a "certain ethnic demographic" who are cheating, then you are not paying attention, or you are just racist.

      • +1

        Yup. Was at rmit during their massive university cheating scandal about a decade ago or so. People involved were from every background you an imagine, including local Aussies. A lot of these people from my class still somehow graduated and almost every single one of them went on to work government jobs oddly enough.

    • +3

      Tbh, certs are just for ticking off legal requirements in most places. If you use them for anything more, whether that be positive or negative, and cannot assess a candidate based on pure ability, then you're probably not that good at hiring people or conducting interviews. Especially if you use them to oddly confirm your racist viewpoints, lol. You'd know shitty or even good candidates aren't isolated with any particular 'demographic' if you've actually been in this business long enough.

      Edit: nvm, dude is just comedically racist

      • -1

        That's not what racism is btw

        • Save the mental gymnastics and low effort comedy for someone who cares.

          • -1

            @[Deactivated]: You not knowing what racism is isn't mental gymnastics. If only you knew as much as you thought you knew.

            • -1

              @Willy Beamish: I see you have difficulty reading. Again, be a court jester elsewhere and try bating a reaction from someone who cares, troll. At least put 10% more effort and make this garbage funny. Your 'demographic' is showing btw.

              • -1

                @[Deactivated]: You seem quite upset for someone that doesn't know what they're talking about. Typical leftie non response, was expected.

                • -2

                  @Willy Beamish:

                  You seem quite upset

                  And yet you are the one seething because one of your fellow klan members in your 'demographic' got outed.

                  non response

                  You mean like your initial "that's not racism" non-response. Apologies, I seem to have correctly presumed you wren't looking for productive insightful debate and were just a seething racist. Typical extremist 'righty' obsessed with US lefty-righty politics.

                  Since you seem to be obsessed with hyperboles, are you this upset because you have to do the nazi salute behind closed doors now? Anyway, I'll let you get back to your cross burning ceremony. That's nOt rAciSm btw, people in 'your demographic' definitely aren't being put on watchlists in many states for hosting nazi events. Good chat 'Willy' (again just saying your name, that's nOt rAciSt. Racism definitely cannot be veiled and you are not allowed to get upset at this and call me a leftie again 'Willy'. Anonymous strangers named 'Willy' attempting to insult me behind their keyboard[because they're afraid to do it anywhere else or in people's faces] definitely hurts my fee-fees, especially since I'm apparently a LEftIe now)

                  • @[Deactivated]: Yeah you're very mad, surprising how easily you got triggered.

                    If only you spent that much time researching what the word racist means instead of malding all day.

                    • -1

                      @Willy Beamish: Cool story 'willy', stay mad.

                      • @[Deactivated]: Write another short story about how mad you aren't.

                        • -1

                          @Willy Beamish: Lol, mad? If only you spent a bit more time working on your comprehension & writing skills instead of being a racist your attempts at trolling would cut deeper. Seems like you need to research 'projection' too. Stay mad over melanin and obsessed about my fee-fees racist 'Willy'

    • Companies looking for partner(?)-status need to have the minimum number of certified employees which has perks (i.e. reduced costs for courses) for those heavily invested in the ecosystem. They're a tad useful for jobseekers for at least getting past the HR filter, not so much beyond it without the practical experience to support them. Coming from someone who spent years using Splunk, though got a better job in the field fortunately using something else.

    • Nice username!

  • Thanks OP for this. I am already doing managing Splunk projects so hopefully this will help me get more in-depth understanding.

  • hmm how does this work? how does one prepare for the exam? is this free course or free exam?

    • Exactly my question - where do I learn it ?

  • Perfect timing. Thanks

  • Will this make me a CyberSplunk?

  • CERTIFIED SPLUNK

  • Silly question, are splunk dashboards slow vs say tableu or qlik?

    • +1

      It really depend on the query and data size. Dashboards is not Splunk main function so what you see on the Splunk dashboard generally a representation of raw data.

      Tableu/PBI/Qlik dashboards generally access post processed data hence smaller and much more optimised.

  • +2

    Isn't security the most obvious job to give to AI? Not a worthy investment down ~20 years methinks. It would be the fights between good AI and evil AI, we'd be pretty obsolete.

      • +1

        They ought to merge their businesses with auditors since they basically work for them, not for the security of the business lol All everyone could really hope for is a good trap wire everywhere, not much you could do other than that.

    • +1

      Its already started. We'll have AI bad actors and AI protector agents, and not a human within sight.

  • Not sure what I am doing wrong, Pearson tries to charge me the $130USD for the exam when I try ti book it whether I select in person or online exam. Different dates seem to be the same. Do I have to use a voucher or something?

    • Is it expired? Please let me know, to close the deal.

      • I do not believe it is expired, as the website still mentions the beta exam is free. I'll get someone else to try and will report back.

  • I haven't received the registration email yet and I can't create a new account now.

  • waiting for pearson

  • +1

    Just started a SOC role a couple of months ago, at the moment just doing training but I'll be working closely with MS Sentinel and Splunk.

    I'm actually going to be doing the ms cert SC-200 so I think this pairs pretty perfectly with that one!

  • Does any recommend anythign other then there own learning modules for learning Splunk? Im finding ti hard to et my head around it tbh..

  • Awesome thanks for this, I've heard good things about splunk in the industry.

    Going to check it out and register for the exam this week.

  • is anyone else showing as CANCELLED?

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