Cybersecurity & Ethical Hacking Bootcamp: Defending the Digital Future | NanoSchool

Cybersecurity & Ethical Hacking Bootcamp: Defending the Digital Future | NanoSchool

Structure

📅 Day 1: Reconnaissance & Network Sniffing

Core Objective: Understand the attack surface by learning how ethical hackers identify targets, map systems, and analyze network traffic in controlled environments.
The hacker mindset and ethical hacking workflow
Legal boundaries, responsible testing, and authorization principles
Active vs. passive reconnaissance techniques
Host discovery, port scanning, and OS fingerprinting fundamentals
Network traffic monitoring, packet filtering, and anomaly detection basics

🛠️ Hands-on:

Hands-on Lab: Scan a controlled target environment, identify exposed services, and analyze sample network traffic to detect security gaps.

🧰 Tools Covered: Nmap, Wireshark, Kali Linux

📅 Day 2: Web Application Penetration Testing

Core Objective: Learn how to identify, analyze, and responsibly test common web application vulnerabilities using safe lab-based environments.
Introduction to OWASP Top 10 web application risks
Setting up a local proxy environment for web traffic analysis
Intercepting and reviewing HTTP/S requests and responses
Traffic manipulation concepts using Burp Suite
Understanding input validation flaws, SQL Injection, and Cross-Site Scripting at a conceptual level
Basics of secure coding, validation, and patching strategies

🛠️ Hands-on:

Hands-on Lab: Analyze a dummy web application, test input validation weaknesses, review intercepted traffic, and apply basic remediation steps.

🧰 Tools Covered: Burp Suite, OWASP Top 10, Dummy Web Application Lab

📅 Day 3: Offensive Security & Defensive Blue-Teaming

Core Objective: Connect offensive security concepts with defensive monitoring, mitigation, and incident response practices.
Overview of the Kali Linux ecosystem for ethical security testing
Introduction to automated exploitation frameworks in controlled labs
Understanding exploitation and post-exploitation concepts safely
Privilege escalation fundamentals and risk awareness
Threat mitigation and incident response workflow
Firewall configuration, patch management, endpoint hardening, and defensive guardrails

🛠️ Hands-on:

Hands-on Lab: Simulate a controlled security incident in a lab environment and translate offensive findings into defensive action steps.

🧰 Tools Covered: Kali Linux, Metasploit, Firewall & Endpoint Security Basics