Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM — AI-Driven SIEM + SOAR Course
Learn Cortex XSIAM the way a SOC actually runs it: data onboarding, detection, incident command, automation, hunting and handover. Includes XSIAM Analyst exam prep and a Techclick completion certificate.
Who Is This For
- SOC analysts moving from classic SIEM into XSIAM
- Cortex XDR engineers who now own the SIEM/SOAR layer
- Detection engineers who must write and tune XQL / correlation
- Leads who need incident command, automation and reporting
Prerequisites
- TCP/IP, Windows/Linux logs and a SOC ticket workflow
- Basic SIEM ideas: index, time, count, alert vs incident
- Helpful: Cortex XDR or any SIEM (Splunk / Sentinel) exposure
Fee, exam preparation and certificate
The full Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM course fee is ₹25,000. That is one price for live online classes, recordings, workbook, dummy lab tickets, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM Analyst exam preparation, interview practice, and the Techclick Infosec completion certificate.
Vendor certification is a separate exam you book with the vendor. This course prepares you for that exam and also for the job desk. UPI and EMI options are available — WhatsApp us.
- ₹25,000 full track · 40 live hours · 16 classes
- Exam path: Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM Analyst
- Techclick certificate after capstone + knowledge check
- Practice exams: exam.techclick.in · Interview desk: /interview/palo-alto-firewall
Full Syllabus — 12 Modules
M 1XSIAM vs SIEM vs XDR
- What XSIAM owns that a classic SIEM does not
- XDR, XSOAR and XSIAM in one Palo Alto story
- When XSIAM is the right buy vs Sentinel or Splunk
- Lab tenant, roles and the first evidence screen
M 2Architecture and data plane
- Management plane vs data lake vs automation
- Collectors, brokers and cloud sources
- Identity of the tenant before you hunt
- Capacity, retention and what “ingested” actually means
M 3Onboarding telemetry
- Endpoint, NGFW, identity, cloud and email sources
- Parsing, mapping and missing-field traps
- Time sync and the first 24-hour health check
- Proof: one source, one count, one sample event
M 4Assets, identity and grouping
- Asset inventory vs user identity
- Grouping for policy and investigation
- Stale assets and shared-NAT lies
- Ownership so a ticket has a human
M 5Detections and correlation
- Analytics, BIOCs/IOCs and correlation rules
- Severity vs confidence vs business impact
- Noise vs a real incident
- Change-control before you tune production
M 6XQL and evidence
- Index + time + count before a pretty dashboard
- Join identity, host and network in one story
- Saved searches that survive a shift handover
- Dummy lab queries you can say out loud
M 7Incident command
- Alert vs incident vs case
- War-room fields a lead must quote
- Assignment, SLA and stakeholder update
- When to escalate vs contain
M 8Automation and playbooks
- What is safe to automate on night shift
- Playbook inputs, outputs and fail-closed design
- Human approval gates
- Prove a playbook with a dummy incident
M 9Threat hunting
- Hypothesis first, query second
- Living-off-the-land and identity abuse
- Hunting without wrecking the data lake
- Write the hunt note the next analyst can reuse
M 10Response and containment
- Host isolate / contain vs network block
- Ticket evidence before you change production
- Rollback and false-positive handling
- Legal / HR / comms boundaries
M 11Reporting and metrics
- MTTD, MTTR and what managers actually ask
- Weekly SOC report from real fields
- Coverage gaps vs “green dashboard”
- Audit pack for a customer review
M 12Exam prep + capstone
- XSIAM Analyst blueprint mapped to these modules
- 30 judgment MCQs and 3 scenario tickets
- Capstone: one incident from ingest to handover
- Techclick certificate + next-cert path
Labs and dummy tickets
Lab 1
Onboard a dummy NGFW + endpoint source and prove the first event
Lab 2
Build one correlation and one XQL hunt that an interviewer can grade
Lab 3
Run a night-shift incident with isolate vs change-control named out loud
Lab 4
Close the capstone with a one-page handover a SOC lead would accept
Exam preparation
Every module maps to a judgment question, not trivia. You finish with a scored quiz style check, three production tickets, and a one-page “say this out loud” sheet for Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM Analyst.
Related free lesson: /blog_paloalto_session_factory
What You Get
Live + recorded
40 hours with lifetime replay of the batch recordings.
Workbook
Field names, runbooks and dummy CLI / portal evidence.
Exam prep
XSIAM Analyst exam prep mapped to these modules.
Certificate
Techclick Infosec course completion certificate after the capstone.
Official References
FAQ
Q 1What is the fee?
₹25,000 for the full course. Workbook, recordings, exam prep and Techclick certificate are included. Vendor exam voucher is not included unless a batch offer says so.
Q 2Do I get a certificate?
Yes. Techclick Infosec issues a completion certificate after the capstone. Vendor certification is a separate official exam — this course prepares you for it.
Q 3Is a live batch running now?
WhatsApp +91 92772 29456 for the next Saturday–Sunday batch. We also start a cohort when a small group is ready.
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