Cyber pathway

As an introduction to OSINT (Open Source Intelligence), this course is designed to educate students on the impact publicly available information can have on individuals and organisations.

Objectives:

• Explain what Open Source Intelligence is and how it is obtained
• Understand the positive and negative paradigms of Open Source Intelligence
• Understand the base concepts of data considerations

This course provides an understanding of how to implement technical requirements for the defensive and offensive protection of a computer network.

You can browse, watch and read the content at your own pace, however, as this course is accredited by the United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), your progress will be monitored by an instructor and you will need to complete timetabled assessment tasks in order to receive a completion certificate. 

Topics include:

The Blue Team Essentials course teaches students the fundamentals of cyber security theory and computer network defence plus the elements that contribute to defensive operations. Students will gain a basic understanding of defensive tools, techniques and procedures from a theoretical perspective then apply their knowledge to hands-on examples.

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Design, plan and execute a penetration test using a provided standard testing methodology
  
• Research and investigate attack techniques and describe mitigations for them
• Provide a detailed report on your penetration testing activities conducted within the Capstone project which highlights your activities, results, issues encountered and the residual risk

Duration: 10 hrs
Prerequisites: Red Team Essentials

In this course, you will learn how to use Immunity Debugger, Mona Modules and msfvenom to create fully developed buffer overflow exploits in Python2 and Python3 for the Windows platform.

We will also cover common issues encountered and how to resolve them.

This course is designed to give you a basic understanding of cyber security.

It will guide you through what information security is and some of the key points you need to be aware of as you navigate the digital world.

In this course, learn what constitutes confidential data, why we need to keep it safe and the best practice approach to maintaining security both in cyberspace and physical facilities.

In this course, you’ll learn what social engineering is, how it works, the different types of social engineering and how to recognise social engineering attacks.

This course will teach you how to identify phishing attacks, business email compromise attacks, phone scams, vishing attacks and malware. Plus, understand how best to handle these incidents and how to avoid further attacks.​

• Enumerate, validate, and exploit privilege escalation vulnerabilities in GNU/Linux environments
  
• Identify and exploit insecure scripting for lateral movement and privilege escalation
• Provide a detailed report on your privilege escalation activities within the Capstone project which highlights your activities, results, issues encountered and the residual risk