Beginner
Fundamentals Certificate
Networking Fundamentals for Security
The networking knowledge security work actually requires — packets, protocols, and where the weaknesses live.
Overview
You cannot assess what you do not understand. This course covers networking specifically through a security lens: not just how TCP works, but what an attacker does with it.
Heavy on packet analysis. You will spend most of the lab hours in Wireshark looking at real traffic.
Heavy on packet analysis. You will spend most of the lab hours in Wireshark looking at real traffic.
Outcomes
What you will learn
The TCP/IP stack, properly
How DNS works and how it is abused
HTTP and HTTPS in detail, including TLS
Packet capture and analysis in Wireshark
Network scanning and what it reveals
Firewalls, NAT and segmentation
Common network attacks and their signatures
Before you start
Requirements
- Cybersecurity Fundamentals or equivalent knowledge
- Comfort with a command line
Who teaches it
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CyberKnight Faculty
Security engineers and assessors
Courses are written and taught by the same people who run our client engagements. What we find in real assessments becomes the lab material here, with client details removed.
Questions
About this course
Yes. On completion you receive a certificate listing the modules covered and the lab work completed. It reflects what you actually did rather than attendance.
You get direct instructor support. Ask on WhatsApp or Telegram and a person answers — usually the same day. Nobody here will make you feel foolish for asking something basic.
Only with written authorisation from whoever owns them. The techniques are taught for authorised assessment and defensive work. Running them against systems without permission is a criminal offence in most countries, regardless of your intent.
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