Courses Catalog

PHP is one of the most widely-used web programming languages in the world. In this course, you’ll learn to write more secure PHP code. Web applications are under attack every day. PHP, being one of the most widely-used programming languages on the web, is one of the main targets. Some oddities, especially those of older versions, facilitate some of the attacks. This course, PHP Web Application Security, helps developers to understand security risks, how vulnerabilities can be exploited, and how to avoid those attacks. First you’ll learn about how to defend against cross-site scripting, including new approaches such as content security policy. Next, you’ll learn about how cross-site request forgery works, why it works so well, and how you can implement protection using PHP. Finally, the course will wrap up by teaching you how to protect against SQL injection attacks, covering not only MySQL, but also other relevant databases PHP supports. By the end of this course, you’ll have the knowledge to anticipate and defend against the major threats against web applications today.

This skill will teach you a basic understanding and applicability of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA). The intention of this skill is to help you understand the foundational concepts of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA), when and how to employ it, as well as understanding the resource implications and related decisions that need to be made. We also cover determining the deployment scenarios and use cases for ZTA, as well as migrating to and maturing associated programs.

In today’s threat landscape, sophisticated adversaries have routinely demonstrated the ability to compromise enterprise networks and remain hidden for extended periods of time. To achieve this, malware authors employ a wide variety of obfuscation and anti-analysis techniques at each phase of an attack. Developing the skills necessary as a malware analyst to properly detect, triage and reverse engineer advanced attacker intrusion tactics and techniques requires experience and a diverse set of tools and skills. In this path you will develop the skills and knowledge necessary to analyze malicious office documents, dig deep into native and interpreted code through disassembly and decompilation, identify and defeat prevalent obfuscation techniques. The courses in this path with take you from malware analysis basics to advanced topics so that you can generate valuable threat intelligence to aid in your efforts to defend your organization, respond more effectively to an incident or gain deeper understanding of the latest malware threats. This skills path may assist in attaining the knowledge and skills outlined in the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework in the following areas: K0259 & K0479 Knowledge of malware analysis concepts and methodologies. S0131 Skill in analyzing malware.

Virtualization is used by IT professionals in the datacenter, on the desktop, and in the cloud to gain tremendous efficiency. In this path, you’ll learn everything you need to know about server, desktop, storage, and network virtualization to get you started in today’s virtualization-dependent world.

Testing network security controls and discovering vulnerabilities are important parts of any organizations security plan. Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free and open source utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and official binary packages are available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.

MITRE ATT&CK® is a globally-accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world observations. The ATT&CK knowledge base is used as a foundation for the development of specific threat models and methodologies in the private sector, in government, and in the cybersecurity product and service community. Further details on the MITRE ATT&CK® framework can be found at https://attack.mitre.org/ Our red team operations tooling courses map to the MITRE ATT&CK® matrix tactics, techniques, and procedures. Each course focuses on the use of a specific industry-standard, generally open source, tool to carry out adversary emulation. Knowing what a tool is and how it can perform a specific task, will ultimately lend to your ability as an organization or an individual to detect and defend against specific attack vectors.

What is the use of Burp Suite? Burp Suite is an integrated platform/graphical tool for performing security testing of web applications. Its various tools work seamlessly together to support the entire testing process, from initial mapping and analysis of an application’s attack surface, through to finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities. Burp Suite is installed by default in Kali Linux. The tool is written in Java and developed by PortSwigger Web Security. The tool has three editions: a Community Edition that can be downloaded free of charge, a Professional Edition and an Enterprise Edition that can be purchased after a trial period. The Community edition has significantly reduced functionality. It intends to provide a comprehensive solution for web application security checks. In addition to basic functionality, such as proxy server, scanner and intruder, the tool also contains more advanced options such as a spider, a repeater, a decoder, a comparer, an extender and a sequencer.

This skill focuses on creating shell scripts using Bash and/or Z Shell to automate just about any task on a UNIX system. With the skills here, you’ll maximize your productivity by using shell scripts to automate tasks and make your life easier.

NIST defines an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) as software that looks for suspicious activity and alerts administrators. In the NIST Special Publication 800-62 it goes on to say that it is a security service that monitors and analyzes network or system events for the purpose of finding, and providing real-time or near real-time warning of, attempts to access system resources in an unauthorized manner. NIST Special Publication 800-161 states that an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is software that has all the capabilities of an intrusion detection system and can also attempt to stop possible incidents. Such systems are key in enterprise network security monitoring. This skills path is designed for anyone looking to learn and utilize the most popular open source IDS/IPS tools; Snort, Suricata and Zeek (formally Bro). The learner can study the tool that best fits their needs and environment or review all three. For each tool you will gain an understanding of the fundamentals of each tool in the getting started courses. You’ll then discover scripting and rule sets, before looking at extensions, frameworks and integrations. The final course will be utilizing the tools in an enterprise environment or for distributed operations.

Do you want to level up your cloud penetration testing skills? The attack surface of many organizations has changed to include third-party hosted services such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. In this training course, hacking concepts will be introduced for each of those services. This training walks through a complete penetration testing methodology of cloud-based infrastructure. Starting with no information other than the company name you will learn to discover what cloud-specific assets your target is using. Following the enumeration of cloud services, you will learn how to discover misconfigurations that commonly expose sensitive data as well as a thorough understanding of how to get an initial foothold into a cloud-based organization.

One of the core disciplines of security is understanding how systems communicate over the Internet. This skill set is crucial to spotting abnormal behavior and attack patterns. In this class, we will go beyond the fundamentals of how IP communicates and dive into the subtle nuances. This will help the student identify anomalous patterns when they occur. Much of this class is spent focusing on the IP, ICMP, UDP, and TCP headers. We will step through each of the fields within each header to ensure that the student understands how the data within that field plays a role in communications. This knowledge is deepened by observing the behavior in packet decodes, some of which are normal traffic while some are common attacks.

To conduct an advanced attack, you need more than just a collection of simple scripts. In addition to talent, you need a large amount of managed and unmanaged code. The more code and resources that are required to conduct an engagement, the more time we need. Time is something we don’t have a lot of on an engagement. Today, to be an advanced and effective attacker, you need to move fast, and that speed requires a move to a DevOps style of managing infrastructure and code. With cloud resources and APIs to manage these resources, the days of manual setup are long behind us.