kellamity — Cyber Defense Certified Analyst (CDCA) | Guardian Foundry

Kell D.

2026-09-24

While waiting for the CybHER bootcamp to start (Monday!!), I kept working on the Level Effect platform. And I'm happy to say I've passed their CDCA certification that validates the end of the "from 0 to Tier 1 SOC analyst" training path. For the "exam", you have to work through the alerts in four themed-scenarios, investigating network traffic with Wireshark, analysing emails, using sysinternals tools to inspect endpoints, and finally navigating Elastic to work through the capstone compromise. For that one, you then have to write a report that includes a table of IOCs, an executive summary, a technical analysis, and remediations. The staff at LevelEffect manually reviews it and gives you feedback on it. Very very useful because, turns out, report writing isn't that easy!!

Here's my credentials on their website: https://foundry.leveleffect.com/verify/nmzd89qw3w

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