Advanced Security

Analyze malicious software safely — static analysis with strings, PE header inspection, and YARA rules; dynamic analysis with sandbox environments, Process Monitor, and network capture.

Disassemble and decompile binaries with Ghidra to understand program logic, find vulnerabilities, bypass license checks, and solve CTF reverse engineering challenges.

Acquire and analyze RAM dumps to detect active malware, injected code, hidden processes, network connections, encryption keys, and attacker artifacts using Volatility 3.

Go hands-on with the forensic imaging and analysis workflow — write-blocking, hash verification, the NTFS MFT, file carving, and timeline reconstruction in Autopsy.

Analyze captured traffic in Wireshark: display filters, TCP stream reconstruction, beaconing detection, DNS tunneling, and extracting IOCs for detection engineering.

Execute a structured incident response process — from detection through containment, eradication, and recovery — with proper digital forensic evidence collection, disk imaging, and timeline analysis.

Collect, analyze, and operationalize cyber threat intelligence — understanding threat actors, TTPs, and IOCs — and proactively hunt for adversary activity in your environment before alerts fire.

Turn raw telemetry into tested, tuned, ATT&CK-mapped detections — Sigma rules, EDR telemetry, and the log correlation that catches a multi-stage attack.

How purple teaming collapses the red/blue feedback loop, MITRE ATT&CK-scoped exercises, Atomic Red Team, detection gaps, and breach and attack simulation (BAS).

Learn the shared responsibility model, IAM basics, and why misconfiguration — not provider infrastructure — causes most cloud breaches, before attacking AWS and Azure.

Identify and exploit cloud misconfigurations — IAM privilege escalation, S3 public buckets, metadata service SSRF, storage account exposure, and cloud-native detection with CloudTrail and Azure Monitor.

Map the AWS/Azure cloud security concepts onto GCP's resource hierarchy, IAM roles, service account keys, VPC Service Controls, and Cloud Audit Logs.

Attack and defend containerized environments — Docker escape techniques, Kubernetes RBAC misconfigurations, privilege escalation in pods, secrets management, and runtime security with Falco.

Go beyond container basics: RBAC misconfiguration, admission control, NetworkPolicy, container-escape vectors, and why Kubernetes Secrets aren't encrypted by default.

Go beyond basic stack overflows to ROP chain construction, format string exploitation, heap spraying, and bypassing modern mitigations: ASLR, NX/DEP, stack canaries, and PIE.

Chain Kerberoasting, DCSync, and Golden Ticket into one escalation path, and learn exactly where in that chain defenders get the cheapest, highest-leverage stop.

The blue-team mirror of the AD attack chain: tiering, LAPS, gMSA, honeytokens, and the specific detection signals for Kerberoasting, DCSync, and Golden Ticket attacks.

Master applied cryptography: symmetric and asymmetric algorithms, TLS handshake internals, PKI and certificate management, and common crypto implementation attacks like padding oracle and BEAST.

Integrate security into every phase of software development — threat modeling with STRIDE, SAST/DAST automation, dependency scanning, secrets management, and DevSecOps pipeline security.

Design and implement Zero Trust security: identity-centric access, microsegmentation, device health verification, continuous authentication, and the BeyondCorp model for workforce access.

Design enterprise security architectures using defense in depth, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), security controls mapping, SOC design, and security program maturity assessment.