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Security Operations Analyst

Your responsibility is to reduce organizational risk by rapidly remediating active attacks in the environment, advising on improvements to threat protection practices, and referring violations of organizational policies to appropriate stakeholders.

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Security Operations analyst

What is a security operations analyst?

A security operations analyst is primarily focused with threat management, monitoring, and response through the investigation of security threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft 365 Defender, and third-party security products.

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