Each phase maps to a module in this course. Scroll to see how the curriculum builds, module by module.
1What cybersecurity really is
- •Confidentiality, integrity and availability — and how to use them to reason about any incident
- •The main threat families: ransomware, stealers, phishing, fraud, and how each one reaches its victim
- •Attacks as a sequence, not an event: reconnaissance, initial access, execution, persistence, objective
- •Who attacks and why: opportunistic crime, organised groups, insiders — motivation shapes method
- •Where defence actually happens: prevention, detection, response, and why detection is where careers are
- •Module exam
Your first analysis
- •Anatomy of a phishing email: sender, headers, pretext, payload, and what each one gives away
- •Reading email headers without guessing: SPF, DKIM and DMARC in plain terms
- •Judging a link before you click: domains, subdomains, homoglyphs, redirects and shorteners
- •Investigating a domain: WHOIS, registration date, hosting, and why a week-old domain matters
- •Evidence versus assumption: writing a verdict you can defend
- •Guided walkthrough of a real case, start to finish
- •Module exam
Your career in cybersecurity
- •The map of the field: SOC and detection, incident response, malware analysis, offensive security, OSINT
- •What each role does on an ordinary day, not on its best day
- •Which skills transfer between specialisms and which are specific
- •Certifications, labs and portfolios: what actually gets read by a hiring manager
- •How to choose a direction without closing doors
- •Final assignment
