Cyber Security — Beginner Syllabus
Start your journey into Cyber Security, covering fundamentals of MS-DOS, Linux, Shell Scripting, Networking, and essential security practices. This beginner-friendly course equips you with the practical knowledge needed to step into the world of cyber defense.
Why Cyber Security?
With the rapid growth of digital transformation, cyber threats are also evolving. Cyber Security ensures confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA triad) of data and systems. Professionals in this domain are in high demand across industries.
Course Highlights
- MS-DOS & CLI Basics: Classic commands and batch scripting.
- Linux Fundamentals: Filesystem, permissions, and process management.
- Shell Scripting: Bash automation, conditionals, loops, and functions.
- Networking Basics: OSI/TCP models, IP addressing, routers, firewalls.
- Security Tools: Nmap, Wireshark, OpenSSL, password hygiene.
- Ethical Hacking Intro: Reconnaissance, scanning, legal guidelines.
Hands-on Practice
Each module includes lab exercises: working with commands, writing scripts, capturing packets, and exploring security tools. Mini-projects like building a backup script or analyzing network traffic strengthen real-world understanding.
Modules
- What is Cyber Security?
- Threats, vulnerabilities, exploits
- CIA triad and real-world case studies
- dir, cd, copy, del, attrib, type
- Batch files & simple automation
- File & directory management
- Filesystem hierarchy, ls, cp, mv, rm
- Permissions: chmod, chown, umask
- Process & user management
- Variables, input/output, redirection
- Conditionals & loops
- Functions & mini projects
- OSI/TCP-IP models, IP addressing & subnetting
- Routers, switches, firewalls, IDS/IPS
- ping, traceroute, netstat, ifconfig/ip
- Nmap, OpenSSL, GPG
- Password hygiene & encryption basics
- Virtual labs setup (VirtualBox, Kali)
- Footprinting & scanning
- Intro to XSS & SQLi (theory)
- Ethical guidelines & legal boundaries
- Weekly lab exercises
- Mini project: Secure backup script
- Final CTF-style challenges