LITE-SOC: Lightweight Security Operations Center Simulator for Cybersecurity Education
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| author | Higgins, Martin Thompson, Shawn Mangla, Cherry |
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| contents | This innovative practice WIP paper describes \emph{LITE-SOC}, a lightweight web-based Security Operations Center (SOC) simulator designed for instructor-led cybersecurity education. SOC analysts must triage large volumes of alerts, separate genuine threats from false positives, and communicate decisions under time pressure. Recreating this environment in the classroom is difficult and often impractical for institutions without access to cyber ranges or enterprise security infrastructure. LITE-SOC was developed to provide a simpler alternative. The platform generates continuous streams of synthetic SOC events and offers separate student and instructor views with visualization tools, event annotation, and region-based chat. Instructors control the pacing of the exercise and can inject targeted incidents to guide the scenario. The goal is to give students a practical introduction to SOC workflows such as triage, prioritization, and decision-making without requiring a full operational SOC environment. The platform is intended for use in guided classroom exercises where students collaboratively investigate alerts and practice real-time triage and communication. |
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| spellingShingle | LITE-SOC: Lightweight Security Operations Center Simulator for Cybersecurity Education Higgins, Martin Thompson, Shawn Mangla, Cherry Cryptography and Security Human-Computer Interaction This innovative practice WIP paper describes \emph{LITE-SOC}, a lightweight web-based Security Operations Center (SOC) simulator designed for instructor-led cybersecurity education. SOC analysts must triage large volumes of alerts, separate genuine threats from false positives, and communicate decisions under time pressure. Recreating this environment in the classroom is difficult and often impractical for institutions without access to cyber ranges or enterprise security infrastructure. LITE-SOC was developed to provide a simpler alternative. The platform generates continuous streams of synthetic SOC events and offers separate student and instructor views with visualization tools, event annotation, and region-based chat. Instructors control the pacing of the exercise and can inject targeted incidents to guide the scenario. The goal is to give students a practical introduction to SOC workflows such as triage, prioritization, and decision-making without requiring a full operational SOC environment. The platform is intended for use in guided classroom exercises where students collaboratively investigate alerts and practice real-time triage and communication. |
| title | LITE-SOC: Lightweight Security Operations Center Simulator for Cybersecurity Education |
| topic | Cryptography and Security Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17703 |