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Patrick Cooper

Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst II at the Center for Internet Security (CIS), featured on the Cybersecurity Where You Are podcast.

Oct 21, 2026

1:11
So as we go through this day in the life of the SOC, what does a typical shift look like from start to finish? Patrick, please.
1:21
Yeah, so our shifts normally start off with a shift change, a 30-minute meeting.
1:25
And we do this for a couple of reasons.
1:26
Most importantly, kind of just to go over with the incoming shifts.
1:30
Kind of just what happened throughout the day.
1:32
Sometimes that's pretty quick if we had a pretty relaxed day.
1:35
Other times, if there's a widespread alert we want to talk about or some specific intelligence, we will.

12 MINS LATER

13:54
What do we look for with operational reporting? And what type of reports does a SOC typically produce? And what do we condition in terms of our membership and sending those types of reports for? What does that look like?
1:11
So as we go through this day in the life of the SOC, what does a typical shift look like from start to finish? Patrick, please.
1:20
Yeah, so our shifts normally start off with a shift change, a 30-minute meeting.
1:24
And we do this for a couple of reasons.
1:26
Most importantly, kind of just to go over with the incoming shifts, kind of just what happened throughout the day.
1:32
You know, sometimes that's pretty quick if we had a pretty relaxed day.
1:35
Other times, You know, if there's a widespread alert we want to talk about or some specific intelligence, we will.
1:44
After that in the morning, we'd like to focus on ticket updates.

12 MINS LATER

13:54
What do we look for with operational reporting and what type of reports does a SOC typically produce? And what do we condition in terms of our membership and sending those types of reports for? What does that look like?

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