90+% of all cybersecurity jobs are defensive. So, if you want to be in the best position to join the ranks and advance your career, you’d better set a solid foundation. Put on your blue hard hat and get ready to get your hands dirty in Constructing Defense!
ConDef is 3 courses combined into a single Path and is all about constructing a defensive playground in a massive virtual environment that mimics a typical enterprise including cloud. You’ll get hands-on experience with throwing attacks at it and seeing what happens from a defensive perspective.
ConDef is an interconnected, open playground that sets a solid foundation for budding SOC Analysts, Incident Responders and Cyber Threat Investigators. Because of the cumulative nature of each course, it must be presented in one single package to make sure students don’t lose their progress in their own, dedicated virtual environment. Course #1 features an introduction to the massive, web-based lab and dives into Windows Servers and Clients including Active Directory. Course #2 showcases Linux and Kubernetes. Course #3 puts your head in the clouds with both AWS and Azure and then throws in some purple team action just to round things out.
Buckle up, because this unique offering presents a ton of foundational knowledge to prep you for a successful career in cybersecurity, but you’ll have a blast!
Price = $500
What do I get?
Along with 100+ videos and clear click-by-click instructions, this well-organized course contains a massive virtual environment for you to play. All virtual machines are web-based, so no need for your own hardware or home lab (although it’s always encouraged to have a home lab!). We do utilize free accounts for the Cloud portion of Course #3, but we keep the setup below the threshold of costing you any money. YMMV.
Prerequisites for Constructing Defense (ConDef)
Although this course assumes no prior knowledge, being comfortable with Windows, Linux, networking and virtual environments are a plus.
Because everything is provided for you, you need nothing other than a computer, Internet access and your brain!
