About Workshop
Cyber threats continue to evolve, making cybersecurity one of the most critical skill sets in today's digital landscape. This intensive bootcamp introduces participants to ethical hacking methodologies, network reconnaissance, web application security testing, and defensive security practices. Through hands-on exercises using industry-standard tools such as Kali Linux, Nmap, Wireshark, Burp Suite, and Metasploit, participants will learn how attackers exploit vulnerabilities and how organizations can defend against them. The workshop emphasizes practical learning and real-world cybersecurity scenarios while maintaining ethical and legal standards.
Aim
Equip participants with practical cybersecurity and ethical hacking skills to identify, assess, and mitigate modern digital threats.
Gain hands-on experience in reconnaissance, web application security, penetration testing, and defensive security strategies.
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.
📅 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.
📅 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.
Important Dates
Registration Ends
7:00 PM IST
Workshop Dates
2026-07-28
8:00 PM IST
8:00 PM IST
What You Will Gain
Outcomes
- Conduct reconnaissance and network scanning using professional security tools.
- Analyze network traffic and identify potential security threats.
- Assess and test web applications for common vulnerabilities.
- Perform controlled penetration testing in safe lab environments.
- Implement cybersecurity best practices for system hardening and defense.
- Develop foundational skills for cybersecurity certifications and career paths.
Who Should Attend
- Undergraduate/postgraduate students in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Electronics, or related fields.
- IT professionals, network administrators, and system engineers seeking cybersecurity skills.
- Software developers interested in secure coding and application security.
- Individuals passionate about ethical hacking, penetration testing, and cyber defense.