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Ironhack Course Guide - Cyber Security Bootcamp

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career in cybersecurity
The Ironhack Cybersecurity Bootcamp covers the hands-on and practical skills necessary for
Bootcampers to land high-paying careers in cybersecurity, one of the world’s fastest growing
industries.

The bootcamp is an accelerated cybersecurity training program designed to successfully

prepare people with little or no background in IT for entry level jobs in cybersecurity, a highly
in-demand and lucrative career path. The Bootcamp is delivered in a blended format at a Cybint
Certified Center with both on campus learning and online self-paced activities.

90% Audited 1
Placement Career-Ready
Affordable

& accelerated
Skills
1 The placement rate has been calculated by dividing employed students over the total number of students that were looking for a job. It relfelcts our placmenet rate from our current courses: Web Developmeent, UXUI Design and Data Analytics.

This metric has been audited by PwC and it’s part of our Outcomes Report 2018-2019.

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Course Summary
The Metrics

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Why Cybersecurity?
Cybersecurity is the fastest growing market in technology with 30x growth over the last
decade. Not only is it a hot topic, but the field has had 0% unemployment for nearly a decade.

Unemployment rate since 2011

With plentiful opportunities and competitive compensation, the only thing standing in your way of
a lucrative, future-proof career is skill.
$173B
Cybersecurity market worth in 2020
Who is it for?

350%
In short, the Cyber Bootcamp is for anyone interested in becoming a cybersecurity professional. If
a dynamic and rewarding career is something you’re looking for, then you’ve come to the right
place. Cybersecurity opens doors to many opportunities and future work roles. The key is not a
technical background, but your willingness and desire to learn how technology works and never Cyber job growth through 2021
stop learning.

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Course Summary
How does it work? D uring Bootcamp Up on Graduation

The Cyber Bootcamp was developed around military • Self-paced and flexible learning with • 12 months of continued access to

instant feedback.

our cyber online learning platform

training methodologies and hands-on learning. We

know that everyone learns differently which is why we • Curriculum based on National Initiative • Connection to our alumni and career

offer Bootcampers two accelerated tracks: for Cybersecurity Education (NICE).


network

• Access to Cyber Experts for Q&A.


• A new career in: Cyber Forensics
Analyst, Network Operations Specialist,
Full time, 3 months: 4 hours per day on-site with the • Guidance on job searching and resume Cyber Analyst, Cyber Incident Responder,
building. Cyber Infrastructure Support Specialist
Bootcamp Facilitator and 4 hours per day individual
online work.

Part time, 6 months: This will cover the same content,

over a longer period of time and with on-site classes
occurring only three times a week, 4 hours each day
on weekdays and 6 hours per day on Saturdays.

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Course Structure
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Module #1 (week 1-3) Module #2 (week 4-9) Module #3 (week 10-12)

• Introduction to Level 1

• Introduction to Level 2

• Introduction to Level 3

• Operating Systems

• Network Security

• Advanced Forensics


• Network

• Malware Analysis

• Risk Management


• Network Admin • Forensics

• Threat Intelligence
• Ethical Hacking and Incident

Response

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Weekly Program
Week #1 | Introduction and Operating Systems Week #2 | Network
Introduction to Bootcamp and the cybersecurity industry.

Network and Routing Protocols / Services.

Overview of operating systems.

Packet Level Traffic Analysis.

Processes and threads in Windows and Linux, types of file systems in Hands-on Operation of a Computer Network and Equipment, Monitoring and
Windows and Linux, system and configuration file.

Analyzing Network Traffic Flow, Patterns and Performance.

Registry keys and values, Linux system configuration and system logs.

Hands-on Creation and Analysis of Critical Network Servers.

Hands-on command-line lab activities in Linux and Windows.

Week #3 | Network Admin Week #4 | Network Admin and Introduction to Level 2

VLANs and network troubleshooting best practices. Hands-on of Nmap.

Monitoring tools and introduction to SNMP.

Introduction to Telecommunication. Servers administration and troubleshooting.

Overview of Packet Tracer. Packet Tracer hands-on configuration of

switches, VLANs, Trunks and Subnetting. Configuring LAN and WAN. Introduction to cybersecurity. NIST Framework and the cybersecurity workforce.

Identifying threat actor types, main vulnerabilities, risks and exploits. Types of
malwares and their differences, social engineering, well-known cybersecurity
attacks and the history of cybersecurity.

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Weekly Program
Week #5 | Network Security
Network security architecture. Firewalls, Antivirus, IDS/IPS, SIEM. DMZ and
Week #6 | Malware Analysis
Honeypots.

Introduction to Malware Analysis. Hands-on of dynamic malware analysis,

Cryptography and its types. Symmetric vs. Asymmetric Key Cryptography.

reverse engineering and malware obfuscation. Fileless Malwares. Containment,

eradication and recovery malware stages. Android APK analysis.

Hands-on labs of encryption/decryption and hash functions. Access

Control methods, two-factor/multi authentication.

Hands-on analysis of Android malwares, using FileAlyzer, APKtool and Yaazhini

vulnerability scanner.
Authentication protocols. Active Directory. Hands-on of Windows Firewall
and Linux iptables. Snort IDS hands-on. Splunk hands-on.

Week #8 | Ethical Hacking and Incident Response

Week #7 | Forensics
Introduction to ethical hacking – blackhat and whitehat hackers. Ethical hacking
processes and methodologies. Network hacking. Introduction to reconnaissance, Google
Introduction to digital forensics. Computer memory forensics, hands-on of hacking and locating attack vectors.

volatile and non-volatile memory labs

Exploitation techniques, hands-on Metasploit activities. Web application hacking –

Hands-on of FTK Imager, Autopsy, Redline and RAM capturing. Digital OWASP top 10 attacks. Hands-of labs of Cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL Injection, manual
evidence acquisition methodologies.

and automated attacks. Hands-on of brute-force attacks. Post-incident activity.

Hands-on incident simulation.

Hands-on of memory dump analysis, hands-on analysis of malwares from
memory using Kali Linux and Windows. Registry Forensics. Windows timeline
analysis and data recovery. Network forensics, anti-forensics and
steganography using OpenStego.

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Weekly Program
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Week #9 | Introduction to Level 3 Week #10 | Malware Analysis

Introduction to trend analysis. Identifying trends from Gartner’s reports.

Windows log forensics. Log management and hands-on localhost analysis.

Artificial Intelligence and cybersecurity. Zero-trust policy.

Hands-on of Log Parser tool and EventLog Analyzer.

Introduction to Secure Design best practices. Principles of making Hands-on of mapping images to Active Drive

compromise difficult.

Advanced hands-on of memory and network forensics. Advanced Mobile

Methodologies of better detection, and how to reduce compromise forensics analysis. Image forensics.
impact.

Week #12 | Finale

Week #11 | Risk Management and Threat Intelligence
Final week of the Bootcamp. Real-life scenarios of cybersecurity incidents, covering all
Introduction to risk management and risk management processes. Analyzing the Bootcamp content learned in the past 12 weeks.
risks, evaluating severity, prioritizing, and responding to risks. Policies,
procedures, standards and guidelines in risk management. Security models.

Introduction to Threat Intelligence and threat intelligence cycle. Hands-on

activities of Google Hacking – operators, finding sensitive data, directory
listing, devices and hardware. Online Anonymity using metadata, Google
Cache, VPN and Tor. Hands-on labs of Tor - the dark web, dark markets and
tools. Trend analysis. Basic excel data analysis, hands-on of web scraping
labs. Introduction to Elasticsearch. Hands-on of Kibana labs. Hands-on of
IntSights labs.

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Career Support
A tailor Career Support program
We have a dedicated team of Career Coaches that guides They’re responsible for providing personalized career support
and supports you from the first day of bootcamp until your and nurturing hiring partner relationships to provide relevant
first day at work. opportunities.

Carlos Arevalo
Ironhack Miami Student

D uri g t e oot amp

n h b c D uri g Career
n W ee k A er t e oot amp
ft h b c ‘‘When it comes to getting a job, my
Career Coach was there to guide me
Together with our career coaches, Week 13 is a full sprint dedicated to Our support extends long past through the job-seeking process and
we will get you ready to start the job Career Services.

career week.

help me to land a job!

hunt as soon as you graduate.

We will practice the whole process - You will have access to our
We will focus on introspection from generating leads, to securing continuous learning resources and I couldn't have done it without the
exercises to define your career path, and performing in personal ongoing support from our Career Ironhack team.’’
start building your personal brand interviews, nailing technical Coaches. Also, you will be conected
and online presence and get you interviews and negotiating to close with our Partners through the
started in the art of networking. the deal. Fast ra i tervie s
-T ck n w .

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Careerhack
Your first step to a successful tech career

Stage #0 | Discovery Stage #1 | Digital Foundations

Ironhackers come from all walks of life.

All Ironhackers, regardless of their desired outcome,

have one thing in common - they are looking to enter the
The discovery stage is designed to ensure
digital market.

students from different backgrounds come

into the bootcamp having reflected on their The Digital Foundations stage is designed to prepare
values and objectives, and have a general students to navigate the digital ecosystem - whether
understanding of the digital ecosystem and they’re looking for a job, intend to freelance or start their
the possibilities that lie ahead of them. own venture.

Expect introspection exercises to identify your top Expect to work on crafting a compelling story, defining a personal
values and skills, and some market research in order brand statement and identifying channels to promote it: LinkedIn,
to clarify future possible outcomes. CV, Networking events...

To be completed during the Bootcamp To be completed during the Bootcamp

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Your first step to a successful tech career

Stage #2 | Job Hunt

As the name suggests, this stage is Phase #1 • Career Warm Up Phase #2 • Sprint
designed for anybody looking for a In the warm up phase, students go through a Now we’re all warmed up. It’s game time!

job. Like any good athlete, first we full job hunting drill, covering every stage of a Throughout the job search, we provide weekly
process, so they can replicate it once they one on one guidance and support, and access
warm up, then we race.
start looking on their own. to our Hiring Partners through different channels.

Expect to learn how to generate leads, apply to

Expect digital and physical check in session, Hiring
jobs, master both technical and personal interviews
Fairs, job offers and more.
and negotiate, accept or reject an offer.

To be completed during Career Week To be completed after Career Week

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