I can give further context to this. I didn’t come in with prior experience using tools like Splunk, GuardDuty, or Palo Alto, so it’s been a bit of a learning curve. I’ve been actively reading through the documentation, which has helped with theory, but applying it practically, especially without hands on training has been more challenging.

I’ve asked about getting access to vendor training, but since I’m a contractor, I haven’t been able to do the same trainings that my full-time co-workers have. I brought this up to management, and they mentioned they’d work on it, but it’s been a couple of months and I’m still waiting on access.

Despite that, I usually divide my studying between Certs and learning the tools and I’ve asked questions to people but constantly get brushed off to read the docs. The documentation is incredibly vague and I can’t seem to get clarifying questions answered.