SOC Analyst Prep Labs

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Your practice exams (Security+, Network+, CySA+, ISC2 CC) are already in your dashboard — go check them now.

Your Splunk and Security Onion lab accounts are being provisioned. You’ll receive credentials by email within 24 hours.

In the meantime: enroll in Cover6: First Watch for free. It runs on the same Splunk infrastructure you just purchased access to. Same tools. Same dataset. Same environment. Get familiar now so Day 1 of SOC Analyst Prep Labs hits different.

You’re not watching someone else work. You’re doing the work.

Most cybersecurity courses give you a sandbox. SOC Analyst Prep Labs gives you a live environment — the same stack that SOC analysts actually use, running real attack data, with your name on the account.

From day one, you’re in Splunk. You’re in Security Onion. You’re chasing real threats. No synthetic walkthroughs. No pretend alerts.

The excuse is gone.

Everything included at purchase

Live Splunk Enterprise lab
Student access to Cover6’s live Splunk instance (splunk.cover6solutions.com). Real-world attack traffic flows in automatically — every day, from a live public server that threat actors scan and probe around the clock. You work across four indexes: linux_logs, network_traffic, soc_lab, and the full BOTSv2 dataset — 543,642 events from an actual 2017 breach.

Live Security Onion lab
Full access to onion.cover6solutions.com. Network security monitoring, alerts, dashboards, and PCAP replay on live infrastructure. Not a screenshot. A working environment.

Four practice exam courses — auto-enrolled, zero extra cost
The moment your order completes, you’re enrolled in all four:

• CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) — $39 value
• CompTIA Network+ — $39 value
• CompTIA CySA+ (CS0-003) — $39 value
• ISC2 CC — $29 value

That’s $146 in certification prep, included. No coupon. No separate purchase. It’s just there when you log in.

Built on real breach data
The BOTSv2 dataset is used in professional SOC training competitions worldwide. Every investigation in this course is built on those same 543,642 events from an actual August 2017 breach. You’re not chasing a made-up scenario. You’re working a real incident.

All future PCAP challenge drops
As Cover6 releases new challenges, you get them. Automatically. For life.

The course: 11 topics, 48 lessons

Every topic is built the same way: vocabulary first (our 100-Terms YouTube series gets you fluent before you touch a tool), then hands-on lab work on live infrastructure, then a quiz. Every lesson is tagged to Security+ and CySA+ exam domains — you’re doing real SOC work and knocking out cert prep at the same time.

Topics build sequentially. You’re not skipping around. By the end, you’ve moved from “what is a SIEM” to running a full threat hunt on live data.

The Cover6 IR Challenge — your capstone

The final exam isn’t multiple choice. It’s an incident response simulation — live. An attack runs against our infrastructure. Your traffic. Your logs. Your investigation. 25 questions. Timed. Built entirely from the attack campaign that just ran.

This is how you prove you can actually do the job — not because you memorized a study guide, but because you just worked a real incident.

Chrysalus — your free career credential

Every student gets a Chrysalus candidate profile created automatically at enrollment. Free. Your lab performance — timed, dynamic, on real infrastructure — becomes a verifiable record that employers can trust. Not a self-reported certification. Not a badge. Proof that you can work a real incident on real tools.

This is lifetime access

Not 30 days. Not a monthly subscription. You get the full course, live server access, every practice exam, and every future challenge drop for as long as Cover6 runs the platform. One purchase. Done.

If you’re on the fence about whether you’re ready for a SOC role — this is what removes that doubt. Not a certificate. The actual ability to do the work.