Modern Cybersecurity
A 12-week live cybersecurity course for beginners that builds toward SOC-analyst skills through graded labs and a capstone incident report.
What you will be able to do
Explain networking, DNS, TLS, Linux logs and identity clearly
Exploit and fix OWASP Top 10:2025 flaws, then find them in logs
Map attacks to MITRE ATT&CK and write detections for them
Write a capstone incident report with timeline, root cause and fixes
Who it is for
- New to security
- Comfortable with computers, not yet an engineer
- A laptop with 8 GB RAM (16 GB better)
- Can commit about 8 hours a week for 12 weeks
- Will only test systems you own or are permitted to test
Curriculum
6 modules, 96 hours
- SEN-01How Systems TalkTCP/IP stack · DNS and HTTP · TLS 1.3 · Linux command line · Reading packet captures and SSH logs16 h
- SEN-02Identity, Access & Zero TrustPassword hashing · MFA weaknesses and push-approval abuse · Passkeys · OAuth and OIDC · Least-privilege IAM · Zero trust concepts16 h
- SEN-03Web Application SecurityOWASP Top 10:2025 · Burp Suite Community · OWASP Juice Shop challenges · Exploit, prove and fix flaws · Writing developer-ready findings16 h
- SEN-04Security Operations & DetectionHow a SOC works · Windows and Linux logging · SIEM queries · MITRE ATT&CK mapping · Sigma rules · Alert triage16 h
- SEN-05Cloud, Containers & AI SecurityShared-responsibility model · AWS IAM and storage misconfigurations · CloudTrail · Secrets in code · Container hygiene · OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications16 h
- SEN-06Incident Response, Compliance & CapstoneNIST SP 800-61 Rev. 3 response lifecycle · Ransomware playbooks · CERT-In 6-hour reporting rule · DPDP Act and Rules · Capstone investigation and report16 h