Skills Bootcamp in Cyber Security

As cyber attacks continue to evolve and become more sophisticated, you'll learn to adapt and expand your analytical mindset and problem solving skills to enable you to provide more secure and resilient solutions.

You'll also break down the anatomy of cyber incidents and analyse each incident in detail. 

Over the 12 weeks you'll learn about:

• The Lockheed Martin cyber attack chain
• Attack hosts, attack vectors and malware
• The Cyber Security toolkit: audit software and hardware, updates and patches, encryption, securing the business website, reducing threat from phishing and malware
• Computing forensics and Internet forensics: browser history capture, volatile memory analysis, search strategies, stenography, documenting and reporting cyber-crime, legal and ethical frameworks
• Pentesting: Kali Linux, ethical hacking tool kits
• Enterprise security architecture: Administration, network security, application security, endpoint/server and device security, identity, authentication and access management
• Data protection and cryptography, industry standard tools and methods
• Monitoring vulnerability and patch management
• Incident response: confirm incident, investigation, evidence collection, report, contain, mediate compromised systems/accounts
• Risk management: cyber security frameworks, mapping against external frameworks, security controls, auditing, deficiency tracking and management
• Mitigation of social engineering and insider threat
• Threat intelligence and security monitoring
• Data Protection Act, GDPR, Cyber Essentials, compliance
• Brand reputation and management

Please note that the course structure is subject to change based on the needs of each cohort.

You'll be taught in live online sessions to ensure that you can fit the course around your other commitments. You’ll receive four hours of teaching two days a week and regular drop in sessions to help support your learning. It's necessary to attend every session over the 12 weeks in order to get the most out of the qualification.

It's important to note that you're expected to spend a number of hours outside of teaching on independent study to support your learning. Your lecturers will support you with reading activities to do during your independent study and you'll be able to book one-on-one sessions for extra support.

Throughout your Skills Bootcamp journey your progress will be reviewed through tasks given on Immersive Labs. You'll receive feedback on each task. 

After completing the Skills Bootcamp in Cyber Security you'll possess the skills needed to pursue a career as a:

• Junior Security Analyst
• Entry level IT/Cyber Incident Responder

You'll have a strong foundation of cyber security knowledge after completing the course which allows you to undertake a level three or four cyber security apprenticeship.

You'll receive six months of employability support after completing a Skills Bootcamp. This includes your lecturers signposting you to networking events and job vacancies. You'll also receive a quarterly newsletter with the latest training opportunities, jobs fairs and tech events.

As our Skills Bootcamps are fully funded by the Department for Education, there is an expectation from the DfE that you'll keep in touch with us to let us know about any interviews or job offers you receive after completing the short course. We'll provide you with a short form that you must get your new employer to fill out in order for us to provide evidence to the DfE.