🔐Cybersecurity Specialist: All Domains

A trainer-led opening brief: how cyber attacks grew from pranks to nation-state operations, what the job market looks like today and where it is heading, and why AI adoption needs security specialists.

Governance, frameworks, security controls and IAAA, the ISC2 Code of Ethics, risk assessment, policies and business continuity: the foundation every security role builds on.

Classify and protect data through its whole life, dispose of it safely, prevent leaks and meet India's DPDP Act obligations.

Secure design principles, zero trust, security models, and the cryptography behind encryption, hashing, signatures, PKI and TLS 1.3.

Revise OSI, TCP/IP, IP addressing and ports, then design segmented networks, choose firewalls, IDS/IPS and VPNs, secure wireless, and detect attacks with packet analysis.

Authentication, phishing-resistant MFA, SSO and federation, access control models, privileged access, identity governance, physical security and separation of duties.

Vulnerability management, CVE and CVSS, authorised penetration testing, audits, and bug bounty and responsible disclosure.

How a Security Operations Centre works: SIEM, logging, EDR/XDR, SOAR, threat intelligence, MITRE ATT&CK, alert triage, patch, change and configuration management, plus security policies and awareness.

Run incidents using the NIST lifecycle and playbooks, handle digital evidence properly, and meet CERT-In and Indian legal requirements.

Build security into software: secure SDLC, DevSecOps, the OWASP Top 10, common flaws and their fixes, testing tools, API security and supply chain security.

Shared responsibility, cloud IAM, misconfiguration, encryption and key management, cloud logging, CSPM/CWPP/CNAPP, containers, Kubernetes, cloud models and service agreements.

Harden and manage endpoints, secure email with SPF, DKIM and DMARC, defend against ransomware, and run awareness programmes that change behaviour.

The compliance landscape in India and abroad, building and auditing a security programme, ethics and law, certifications and your portfolio.

A timed test covering all thirteen domains. Pass it to complete the course and earn your certificate.