The Most Practical Hands-On Starter Program in Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity & Pentesting Beginner Track
30-hour Track with CTF Finale
- Designed for complete beginners—clear, structured learning
- Guided, hands-on labs for confident learning
- Covers all essential pentesting concepts, tools, and workflows
- Real tools, real vulnerabilities, real workflows
- 24×7 dedicated hacking lab access for unlimited practice
- Sessions led by expert instructors with real industry experience
- Course completion certificate
- Ends with a thrilling CTF finale to apply skills in a realistic pentest scenario
Why This Course Matters
Cybersecurity isn’t just a career option—it’s one of the fastest-growing, most in-demand fields in the world. Organisations of every size now depend on people who can think like attackers and defend proactively.
This beginner track acts as an exploratory pathway—your chance to test the waters, experiment, break, fix, question, and possibly discover a lifelong passion. Many successful ethical hackers began exactly this way: curious, unsure, but willing to try.
With hands-on labs, real tools, and guided challenges, you’ll learn how today’s attackers operate—and how to stop them. Even if you later choose development, cloud, networking, DevOps, or IT support, this foundation strengthens your technical confidence and decision-making.
Cybersecurity is the “in” skill of the digital era. This course helps you see if it’s the future you want—before committing to advanced specialisation.
Who Should Join
Students, beginners in tech, aspiring ethical hackers, SOC analysts-in-making, developers, sysadmins, cloud and DevOps learners, or anyone curious about cybersecurity and ethical hacking. No prior experience required! Just curiosity and willingness to learn.
What You’ll Be Able to Do
By the end of the program, learners will confidently:
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Understand key cybersecurity concepts and the purpose of pentesting
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Follow a clear workflow: recon → scan → exploit → report
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Work legally, ethically, and responsibly
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Set up a Kali Linux lab and navigate Linux commands
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Run recon, scanning, and enumeration using tools like Nmap
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Identify and exploit beginner-level web vulnerabilities (XSS, SQLi)
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Use Metasploit for guided exploitation
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Perform basic password attacks using Hydra or John
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Write short, actionable pentest reports
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Apply all skills in the final CTF challenge
Course Structure
Introduction to Cybersecurity & Pentesting
Cybersecurity fundamentals, threat landscape, pentest purpose, ethics, safe hacking, simplified methodology, Kali setup, mini hands-on.
Networking & Linux Basics for Pentesters
IP, ports, services, TCP/UDP, essential Linux commands, utilities, package management, practical exercises.
Information Gathering & Basic Enumeration
Passive/active recon, OSINT, DNS lookups, banner grabbing, Nmap scanning and interpretation.
Intro to Web Application Attacks
How web apps work, authentication basics, DVWA labs, input validation issues, XSS, SQLi, OWASP ZAP/Burp basics.
Basic Exploitation, Password Attacks & Reporting
Exploitation workflow, Metasploit usage, wordlists, Hydra/John attacks, post-exploitation concepts, structured reporting.
Capture The Flag (CTF) Finale
Team or individual competition covering recon, scanning, enumeration, XSS, SQLi, exploitation, and password attacks — scored via flags and leaderboard.
Final Takeaway
This course doesn’t just teach commands; it builds a cybersecurity mindset. With consistent practice in a safe, legal lab, you’ll gain the confidence to explore, test, analyse, and defend systems like a beginner pentester.
Start now. Your cybersecurity journey begins here.
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