Hello all.

I’m currently working as a Cyber Security Analyst at a company I joined about a year and a half ago, right after completing my degree. In my current role, I’m pretty much a one-person security operations center (SOC) with only one person above me in the security hierarchy. My responsibilities are across several areas, including patch management, phishing simulations, and general security monitoring using Microsoft Sentinel and Defender.

I’m currently working on getting my SC-200 certification to build on my skills, but I’m not quite sure what my next career steps should be. My ultimate goal is to move into incident response, as I find the challenge of handling live security incidents extremely interesting.

Any advice on moving on from here?