100507 - Virginia Tech Cybersecurity Bootcamp

Overview

The Virginia Tech Cybersecurity Bootcamp is designed for students to pursue high-quality tech education while continuing to balance work or other commitments. Our program provides you with the flexibility to fit career development into your life.

After 156 hours of synchronous instruction, participants will learn:

• Cybersecurity Fundamentals: Applied the principles of the confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) triad to analyze threats, vulnerabilities, and risks
• Asset and Inventory Management: Gained hands-on experience with Linux Command Line processes and Bash scripting for digital asset and inventory management
• Network Systems: Gained a deep understanding of networking, Wireshark, encoding and encryption skills, Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)models, and firewalls
• Programming with Python: Mastered Python programming skills, including variables, loops, and conditionals; string and list methods; dictionaries; regular expressions; and log parsing
• System Administration: Explored and implemented Systems Administration skills, including Windows administration and management, active directory, and group policy
• Red Team (Offense): Explored and implemented offensive cybersecurity techniques with a deep exploration of web vulnerabilities, penetration testing, OWASP Top 10, social engineering, Burp Suite, cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and Metasploit
• Blue Team (Defense): Explored and implemented defensive cybersecurity techniques, including logs/log analysis; Splunk and security information and event management (SIEMs); digital forensics; and NIST Cybersecurity Framework

The learners can gain the ability to:

• Implement cybersecurity principles in asset and inventory management, including networking basics, Linux command line, and bash scripting
• Utilize Red Team (Offense) strategies for fighting web vulnerabilities, including penetration testing, OWASP Top 10, and social engineering
• Utilized Blue Team (Defense) strategies, including log analysis, security information and event management, digital forensics, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and incident response
• Utilize generative AI techniques for cybersecurity using tools like ChatGPT and Bing AI

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