{"id":495,"date":"2025-09-29T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/?p=495"},"modified":"2025-11-19T18:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:37:31","slug":"09-29-2025-what-is-a-soc-former-president-thomas-mueller-returns-as-guest-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/2025\/09\/29\/09-29-2025-what-is-a-soc-former-president-thomas-mueller-returns-as-guest-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"09\/29\/2025: What Is A SOC? Former President Thomas Mueller Returns As Guest Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Past Club President Thomas Mueller, now a SOC Analyst at General Dynamics Land Systems, returned as a guest speaker to share his journey from student to professional and explain the critical role of a Security Operations Center (SOC). His firsthand experience provided our members with practical insights and advice for one of the current most common entry points for cybersecurity careers. We would like to thank Thomas Mueller for returning to campus to provide our members with excellent information about Security Operations Centers, and thank you to all of our members for the wonderful turnout at this meeting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t<div class='ngg-imagebrowser default-view'\n\t\tid='ngg-imagebrowser-4def33c9bd80d91be617b1a53e1979b7-495'\n\t\tdata-nextgen-gallery-id=\"4def33c9bd80d91be617b1a53e1979b7\">\n\n\t\t<h3>Club Officers and Speaker<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"pic\" \n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/533\/nggallery\/09-29-25-whatisasoc\/IMG_9478.JPG'\n\t\t\ttitle='Group photo with all club officers and Thomas Mueller'\n\t\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/533\/nggallery\/09-29-25-whatisasoc\/IMG_9478.JPG\"\n\t\t\tdata-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/533\/nggallery\/09-29-25-whatisasoc\/thumbs\/thumbs-IMG_9478.JPG\"\n\t\t\tdata-image-id=\"115\"\n\t\t\tdata-title=\"Club Officers and Speaker\"\n\t\t\tdata-description=\"Group photo with all club officers and Thomas Mueller\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"ngg-simplelightbox\" rel=\"4def33c9bd80d91be617b1a53e1979b7\">\n\t\t\t<img title='Club Officers and Speaker'\n\t\t\t\talt='Club Officers and Speaker'\n\t\t\t\tsrc='https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/533\/nggallery\/09-29-25-whatisasoc\/IMG_9478.JPG'\/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class='ngg-imagebrowser-nav'>\n\n\t\t\t<div class='back'>\n\t\t\t\t<a class='ngg-browser-prev'\n\t\t\t\t\tid='ngg-prev-118'\n\t\t\t\t\thref='https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/2025\/09\/29\/09-29-2025-what-is-a-soc-former-president-thomas-mueller-returns-as-guest-speaker\/nggallery\/image\/img_9354\/'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fa fa-chevron-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div class='next'>\n\t\t\t\t<a class='ngg-browser-next'\n\t\t\t\t\tid='ngg-next-116'\n\t\t\t\t\thref='https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/2025\/09\/29\/09-29-2025-what-is-a-soc-former-president-thomas-mueller-returns-as-guest-speaker\/nggallery\/image\/img_9469\/'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div class='counter'>\n\t\t\t\tImage\t\t\t\t1\t\t\t\tof\t\t\t\t4\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div class='ngg-imagebrowser-desc'>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Group photo with all club officers and Thomas Mueller<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Past Club President Thomas Mueller, now a SOC Analyst at General Dynamics Land Systems, returned as a guest speaker to share his journey from student &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":699,"featured_media":502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":116},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/533\/2025\/11\/nggallery_import\/IMG_9469.JPG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}