Training Watson, Enabling Holmes: How structured learning and tooling transformed analyst capability into real investigations

Training Watson, Enabling Holmes explores how structured cyber learning, skills assessment, and hands-on tooling can move an analyst from development into real investigative work. The first part of the talk focuses on the learning journey: how training design, capability measurement, and practical enablement help build confidence, methodology, and repeatable tradecraft. The second part shifts into a live case-study style narrative, showing how those learned skills were applied in a deeper investigation, turning theory into operational Cyber Threat Investigation outcomes. Attendees will leave with practical ideas for linking cyber learning programmes to measurable analyst growth and stronger real-world investigations.