Start Your Cyber Security Journey

Offensive Security Intro

  1. What is Offensive Security?
  2. Hacking your first machine
  3. Careers in cyber security

Defensive Security

  1. Introduction to Defensive Security
  2. Areas of Defensive Security
  3. Practical Example of Defensive Security

๐Ÿ“ Notes

What is Offensive Security Intro?

  • Beginning Your Learning Journey

Hacking your first machine

gobuster -u http://fakebank.thm -w wordlist.txt dir

Careers in cyber security

  • Penetration Tester, Red Teamer, Security Engineer

Introduction to Defensive Security

  • Preventing intrusions
  • Detecting intrusions
  • Blue teams are part of the defensive security landscape
    • User cyber security awareness
    • Documenting and managing assets
    • Updating and patching systems
    • Setting up preventative security devices
    • Setting up logging and monitoring devices

Areas of Defensive Security

  • Security Operations Center (SOC)
    • Vulnerabilities
    • Policy violations
    • Unauthorized activity
    • Network intrusions
    • Threat Intelligence
  • Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR)
    • Digital Forensics
    • Incident Response
    • Malware Analysis
  • Digital Forensics
    • File System
    • System memory
    • System logs
    • Network logs
  • Incident Response
    • Preparation
    • Detection and Analysis
    • Containment, Eradication, and Recovery
    • Post-Incident Activity
  • Malware Analysis
    • virus is a piece of code
    • Trojan Horse
    • Ransomware
    • Static analysis
    • Dynamic analysis

Practical Example of Defensive Security

  • Simulating a SIEM

๐Ÿง Conclusion:
This was a very short introduction.