Red and Blue Team Foundations Course - VAPT & Infosec Basics

Explore the CIA triad—confidentiality, integrity, and availability—and how information security protects digital and physical assets through access control, logging, and risk management.

information security integrates data protection, physical security, and regulatory compliance, guided by an information security manager who identifies risk, selects controls, and builds a governance driven security program.

Explore how security protects organizational data using the CIA triad while privacy safeguards individuals’ personal data, focusing on retention, consent, and regulatory requirements.

Explore how assets with economic value face threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks, and how risk equals probability times impact in cyber security, with examples like phishing and denial of service.

Assess risk by evaluating confidentiality, integrity, and availability across front end, back end, and database, and enforce secure architectures with https, authentication, patching, and high availability.

Explore the IT threat landscape, from hardware and software risks and human error to natural disasters and insider threats, plus the hacker types from white hat to state-sponsored actors.

Explore malware types, including virus, trojan horse, worm, adware, keylogger, spyware, ransomware, and rootkit, and learn protection strategies like user awareness, least privilege, backups, file integrity monitoring, and network defenses.

Explain denial of service and distributed denial of service attacks, how syn floods exhaust resources, and how botnets, firewalls, and cloudflare defenses mitigate DDoS.

Explore man-in-the-middle attacks through ARP spoofing in a network, showing intercepting and modifying traffic with Kali Linux, Ettercap, and Wireshark, and learn mitigations like port security and access controls.

Discover how ip spoofing, dns spoofing, and host-file manipulation enable man-in-the-middle attacks, and how rogue dhcp servers and arp inspection, plus network access controls, defend networks.

Identify vulnerabilities across technical, human, and organizational domains, use cvss and tenable for assessment and patching, and map the cyber kill chain stages from recon to exploitation to prevent breaches.

Trace the full attack cycle from recon to exploitation, including discovery, vulnerability assessment, and delivering exploits. See how tools like nmap and metasploit enable backdoors and remote control.

Learn web application penetration testing techniques for cross-site scripting and SQL injection, guided by OWASP and ASVS, with real-world exposure via Shodan and WordPress risks.

Explore web attacks like XSS and SQL injection with hands-on labs, learn practical defenses such as input validation, prepared statements, stored procedures, and CSRF tokens.

Explore social engineering techniques like phishing, spear phishing, smishing, whaling, and mining social media. Learn to use information gathering tools such as whois, harvester, and recon ng to assess risk.

Explore how the Google hacking database reveals search engine-based vulnerabilities by using queries to locate exposed data, WordPress uploads, and Apache logs.

Understand the OSI model and core network basics, including LANs, endpoints, servers, switches, routers, access points, and media like fiber and twisted pair.

Gain a practical overview of network fundamentals, including data link layer and MAC addresses, IP addressing, subnet masks, VLAN concepts, and ARP, man in the middle attack awareness.

Explore the OSI model's seven layers, from application to physical, and see how data is formatted, segmented, and addressed with IP and MAC through ARP, frames, switches, and routers.

Learn how ARP maps MAC addresses to IPv4 addresses, use Wireshark to view ARP messages, and understand Ethernet frame structure with ARP request and reply exchanges.

Segment networks with vlan and enforce access through Fortigate firewalls between segments, using policies based on source, destination, and service, with web filtering and vpn options.

Explore firewalls from packet filtering (stateless, layer 3) to stateful inspection (layer 4) and application level firewalls (layer 7), highlighting traffic inspection for malware and data leakage prevention.

Set up a DMZ as a screened subnet between two firewalls, deploy a honeypot, and implement IDS and IPS to detect, monitor, and block threats.

Examine VPN types and IPsec transport versus tunnel modes for secure access. Review wireless, VoIP, email, and IoT security, including evil twin protection, VLAN separation, 802.1x, TLS, SSH, and MDM.

Explore foundational it infrastructure, including cloud services, networks, front-end and back-end web apps. Cover servers—from tower to blade—and services like dhcp, dns, ntp, domain controllers, active directory, and security baselines.

Learn to implement system hardening through guidelines for Windows Server and mobile devices, including disabling default account, unused services, strong passwords, antivirus, encryption, IPsec and VPN, and trusted app practices.

Review dhcp, dns, ntp, nap, and network admission control to validate trusted network access; cover Active Directory, least privilege, hardening, and resiliency through clustering and failover.

Explain data at rest versus data in motion, using symmetric encryption for storage and public-private keys for secure transmission, with digital certificates and signatures ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and non-repudiation.

Explore symmetric and asymmetric encryption, including shared key usage, hashing, and digital signatures; understand data at rest and in motion and secure protocols like TLS, HTTPS, IPsec, SFTP, and SSH.

Explore public key infrastructure (PKI) essentials, from certificate authorities and registration authorities to certificates, private keys, and trust verification, enabling secure web identities.

See how encryption protects connections: switch from http to https and use tls 1.2 or 1.3. Avoid telnet; prefer ssh, ftp over secure file transfer protocol, and wifi with WPA2.

Explore physical security foundations for data centers, including access control and environmental control. Learn to mitigate power faults, fires, and equipment threats with raised floors and FM 200 suppression.

Explore cloud computing as on-demand utility with elasticity, measured service, and IaaS, PaaS, SaaS. Understand deployment models private cloud, public cloud, community cloud, and hybrid, plus security and compliance considerations.

Learn how virtualization lets cloud providers host many virtual machines on a single server via a hypervisor like ESXi, allocating CPU, memory, storage, and isolating networks with VLANs.

Explore containerization as the next generation of virtualization, running isolated pods on a single operating system and reducing licensing costs. See Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift manage containers and security networking implications.

Explore how identification, authentication (including biometric and multi-factor), and authorization control access within organizations, supported by IAM, policy-based permissions, and extensive logging to ensure accountability and non-repudiation.

Explore authentication basics, why passwords can be cracked via brute force, dictionary and rainbow table attacks, and how hashing with salting and password managers strengthen account security.

Explore multi-factor authentication by combining password, otp or card, and biometric factors, with iris scan highlighted as the most secure due to low false acceptance and rejection risks.

Explain authorization as access control through discretionary and mandatory models, and role-based and rule-based controls, with data owner and data custodian roles, and whitelisting or blacklisting in firewalls and apps.

Explore how single sign-on uses Kerberos with Active Directory to grant access via tickets, eliminating repeated passwords across resources, and learn about NTLM, TGTs, and domain controllers for availability.

Board-led governance shapes information security, IT and risk committees, and reporting lines to align security strategy with business objectives and enterprise risk management.

Learn how to build a persuasive security business case that secures senior management support by linking risk, cost, and tangible benefits to business objectives, with stakeholder and governance considerations.

Learn how to identify, assess, and treat information security risk by balancing impact and probability, using subjective or objective methods, and selecting mitigation, transfer, avoidance, or acceptance strategies.

Explore how security controls, including technical, administrative, and physical measures, are selected for use before, during, and after attacks, with examples like cameras, guards, and backups.

Set direction and objectives through governance; the board defines strategy, evaluates management, and aligns plans to deliver value while managing risk and optimizing resources.

Information security governance aligns with business and IT strategy, with accountability resting with the board, and policy, standards, and risk management empowering them to protect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Policies act as high-level governance tools that set broad security expectations, with baseline policies balancing top-down and bottom-up needs for multinational organizations.

Align governance by implementing policy, standards, and procedures that define measurable security baselines and compliance. Guidelines offer practical, optional risk-reducing advice, with password rules, 90-day cycles, and CIS benchmarks.

Outline legal, regulatory, and security standards shaping privacy, retention, e-discovery, and cloud data checks; map frameworks such as NIST CSF, ISO 27000, RMF, and PCI DSS to risk-based controls.

Understand incident management as a risk-based process to prepare, detect, triage, contain, eradicate, and recover from security and physical incidents, and distinguish events from incidents.

Identify the root causes of incidents and document solutions to prevent recurrence. Differentiate problem management from incident management by focusing on reducing incidents through root-cause analysis and proactive fixes.

Explore how a business continuity plan orchestrates disaster recovery across essential IT services using a business impact assessment (BIA), and selects recovery sites such as mirror and hot sites.

Explore recovery point objective and recovery time objective, and learn how to design disaster recovery and business continuity plans using backup frequency, hot and warm sites, and service delivery objectives.

Examine key cybersecurity challenges, including data classification and DLP, IoT and SCADA vulnerabilities, insider threats, and supply chain risks, with examples from Stuxnet and remote work.

Develop technology basics—including Linux, Active Directory, virtualization with VMware, and foundational programming—plus security tools like Nmap and Metasploit, guiding you toward blue team or red team certifications.