Advanced Series: Advanced Cyber Operations

Overview

With our Advanced Series in Cybersecurity, you will gain the knowledge to implement and maintain cost-effective security controls that are closely aligned with business and industry standards. You will also acquire skills to assess threat analysis and cybersecurity risks, data protection techniques and advanced configuration of DLP tools.

Learn how to prevent, detect, and respond to attacks through experience with hands-on projects. Develop processes for establishing an incident-handling team from start to finish. Gain a solid understanding of the cloud security principles and frameworks. Work with industry leaders who have already been there and done that and learn from their personal experiences.

Moreover, you will understand which threat sources are useful, which specific threats are targeted, and which ones may need minor adjustments to monitor within an organization. You will seamlessly identify, mitigate, and defend against web application attacks by designing and building systems resistant to failure.

But that’s not all. Besides gaining the technical skills needed to succeed in the industry, we will also help you work on your career-building skills. Through comprehensive career coaching sessions and access to a unique Talent Portal that will connect you with the right employers, you will learn everything you need to know about job research, technical interviews and the first day of work.

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Course Details

Program Length: 45 weeks 

Weekday Classes Length: 6 hours

Weekend Classes Length: 4 hours

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Lectures Details

Lectures: 45 + Final Project

Lectures Length: 450 hours

Classes Schedule:

Monday – 2 hours
Tuesday – 2 hours
Thursday – 2 hours
Saturday – 4 hours

Outcomes

Learn basics of information security.
Gain knowledge on how to perform cyber risk analysis.
Familiarize with security frameworks and compliance.
Practical experience with cryptographic techniques for protecting data at rest and in transit.
Hands-on with data loss prevention (DLP) tools.
Security incident response lifecycle.
Discover best practices for Cloud security in AWS.
Apply cyber threat intelligence concepts to hunt for adversary activities.
OWASP Top 10, scanning vulnerabilities in web applications and IT systems.
Deploy ethical hacking to expose weaknesses.

In-Course Career Coaching

Being knowledgeable in your field is not the only requirement for launching your tech career. It takes much more than passing your exams to land a dream job or get the promotion you have been looking for. And that’s where we step in. Starting from Level 2 all the way to Level 4, you will gain in-depth career coaching to help you prepare for the next step after graduation.

We will prepare you for everything, from planning your job search and updating your resume to discovering how to stand out in your interviews. All this will be covered in four essential steps:

Researching the Industry

Start your research by finding the best sources for countless job ads in your field of study.

CV and LinkedIn Updates

Build a LinkedIn Profile that will pop up first for your dream job. Give your CV a makeover to fit the industry standards.

Interview Preparation

Discover what to expect from a tech interview and how best to handle the most asked questions and scenarios.

Define Your Career Path

Pave your own career path with the help of industry professionals based on your personal aspirations.

Ease in navigating and using a computer interface.
High-speed internet connection.
Familiarity with algebra concepts.
A computer that meets the specified requirements:
- Supported operating systems: macOS, Linux, or Windows (Pro edition required)
- Latest OS version, fully up to date
- All security updates installed
- Free of viruses
- At least 100GB of free space on the hard drive
- At least 16GB of RAM, 32GB RAM is strongly preferred
- Support for video conferencing and screen-sharing, with a reliable webcam and microphone
CompTIA Security+ Study Guide: Exam SY0-601 (Sybex Study Guide)
Completed Level 4: Networking and Systems Administration.
- Students with previous experience have the option to test-in straight to the Advanced Series. If you’d like to test-in, please make sure to have experience with all the topics covered in Level 3: Foundations of Computer Ops and Security and Level 4: Networking and Systems Administration.
All students are required to complete the prework for this course ahead of day one.

All Ops & Cybersecurity students are required to make a one-time, non-refundable purchase of an Ops Lab Kit with predefined specifications. The purchased equipment can be either new or secondhand, but it should be in a functional state for the lab work. Once you purchase your Ops Lab Kit, you should ensure to set it up at least one day before the first lecture. It can be used for all levels of the Ops & Cybersecurity Program, and it is specifically built to help you gain practical, hands-on experience while following the Ops lectures.

For more information of the Ops Lab Kit requirements, click here.

Cybersecurity engineering with AI tools

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)

Cybersecurity frameworks (e.g. SOC2)
CIA triad
Systems hardening
Risk analysis, assessment, and reporting
Security compliance and auditing

Data Security

Data classification
Data loss prevention (DLP)
Data privacy concepts and regulation (GDPR, CCPA)
Encryption standards
Password security
Protecting data at rest and in transit
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
SSL/TLS

SecOps Foundations

Threat detection with IDS, SIEM
Incident response lifecycle
Indicators of compromise (IOC)
SIEM deployment and operation
SIEM log and event analysis
SIEM troubleshooting, data ingestion, query writing
Threat hunting techniques

Cloud Security

Cloud identity and access management
Cloud security in AWS
Data loss prevention (DLP)
Intrusion detection & prevention systems (IDS/IPS, Snort)
Network traffic analysis
Virtual private cloud (VPC)
AWS native tooling (e.g. AWS CloudTrail)

Threat Modeling and Analysis

Tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
Cyber Kill-Chain
MITRE ATT&CK
OWASP
STRIDE
Threat Modeling
Data flow diagrams

SecOps: Threat Hunting

Malware detection with YARA rules, VirusTotal API
Malware traffic analysis
Forensic investigation
Threat hunting with Zeek, RITA

AppSec and Vulnerability Analysis

Web app scanning and exploitation with Burp Suite, w3af, OWASP ZAP
CVE, CVSS
Vulnerability scanning tools, e.g. Nessus
Network and application vulnerability scans and assessments
Scanner output handling, false positives, prioritization
Vulnerability risk rating
Vulnerability types and concepts

Penetration Testing

Enumeration
Exploitation
Impact analysis
Investigation and intelligence collection
Legal considerations in pentest scoping
Nmap, metasploit, datasploit
OSINT
Penetration test lifecycle
Planning
Scoping
Target profiling and evaluation

We’ve created a flexible environment which will enable you to have the best learning experience from the comfort of your own home. That said, to successfully pass the class, students should aim to reach at least 90% of the available points.

In accordance with our Code of Conduct, punctuality, participation in discussions, completion of assignments, and demonstration of professional courtesy to others are required. Attendance will be recorded at the start of the class. Passing requires attendance on the full course.

Building a career is more than just learning a skill. In tandem with your software development education, you will receive powerful career-building strategic training so you can confidently start your job search as soon as (or even before!) you graduate. Moreover, our Career Catalyst Program provides additional training, mentoring, leadership, and introductions to industry partners to help you become a more well-rounded software developer and a leader in your field. These services, which start after graduation, involve a series of events, workshops, and assignments that help you think holistically about your new career and take actionable steps towards success.