Course Overview

The Blue Team Boot Camp: Defending Against Hackers course provides a comprehensive guide to defensive cybersecurity strategies, equipping learners with the skills needed to identify, analyze, and mitigate cyber threats. As organizations face evolving cyber risks, understanding defensive measures is crucial for safeguarding systems, networks, and data. This course focuses on Blue Team methodologies, including risk analysis, endpoint security, network defense, and log correlation, ensuring that professionals can proactively defend against cyberattacks.

This course begins with Risk Analysis and Threat Intelligence, covering risk assessment, asset management, patching, security policies, and the Cyber Kill Chain to understand attack methodologies. The Endpoint Security section delves into securing Windows and Linux environments using techniques such as EDR, application whitelisting, OS hardening, CIS benchmarks, PowerShell, SELinux, and HIDS. The Network Security module explores firewalls, encryption, VLANs, IDS, Active Directory, lateral movement, and attack techniques like password spraying and pass-the-hash. Finally, Log Aggregation and Correlation teaches learners to manage logs from Windows and Linux, utilize agent-based vs. agentless monitoring, and enhance incident response workflows through correlation techniques.

By the end of this course, learners will gain hands-on expertise in defensive security strategies, incident detection, and mitigation techniques, strengthening their ability to protect enterprise environments from cyber threats.

What You Will Learn

  • Learn fundamental cyber-security principles that will allow them to defend their network against hackers of all skill sets.
  • Obtain hands-on knowledge that is applicable to real-world environments.
  • Learn all new technologies that professionals are using to stop hackers from breaching their network.

Program Curriculum

  • Risk Analysis
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Asset Management
  • Patch Management
  • Security Policies
  • Cyber Kill Chain
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Passwords
  • Application Whitelisting
  • EDR
  • Basic Windows Hardening
  • Windows Fundamentals
  • Additional Windows Security Measures
  • CIS Benchmarks (Windows 10)
  • Persistence
  • Basic WMI
  • OSQuery
  • PowerShell
  • FIM in Windows
  • HIDS in Windows
  • Quick Wins in Windows
  • Basic Linux Hardening
  • CIS Benchmarks (Linux)
  • Linux Fundamentals
  • SELinux
  • ClamAV and Chkrootkit
  • Native Linux Firewalls
  • HIDS in Linux
  • FIM in Linux
  • Lynis
  • MITRE ATT&CK
  • Golden Images
  • Supply Chain Attacks
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Firewalls
  • Encryption
  • VLAN
  • IDS
  • Packet Sniffer
  • Active Directory
  • Proxy Servers
  • Lateral Movement
  • Command and Control
  • DNS
  • Password Spraying
  • Pass the Hash
  • Critical Thinking Question
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Log Aggregation
  • Windows Logs
  • Linux Logs
  • Agent vs. Agentless
  • Shipping Logs
  • Log Correlation
  • Incident Manager
  • General Workflow Example
  • Aggregation and Correlation
  • Additional Information
  • Chapter 4 Quiz
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Instructor

Jonathan Elliott

Jonathan started using computers at the early age of six. When he was 13, he began to study certain computing topics more in-depth. He started learning the concept of packet-switched networks while writing scripts in a Pascal-based language via an IDE known as SCAR Divi. He then began to focus on common web-based vulnerabilities. From there he transitioned into learning general cybersecurity topics and started to become proficient in different programming languages, network security, and endpoint hardening. Over the years he continued to assimilate these topics, while he acquired more knowledge in generalized networking, penetration testing, and risk analysis alongside my primary focus of defensive security. To this day, he continues to further his education in every possible way including but not limited to attending conferences, listening to podcasts, and actively participating in the information security community. He also participates in cybersecurity clubs and regularly engages in non-competitive CTF challenges such as Hack The Box. His passion for this field only continues to grow stronger.

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