Advanced Network Security
Your Practical Guide to Network Security
What you'll learn
- Understand advanced network security concepts
- Recognize how attackers think, for defense purposes
- Learn the roles of the Red Team and Blue Team
- Understand intrusion detection and prevention systems, IDS and IPS
- Apply the Threat Hunting methodology
- Follow the Incident Response framework
- Practice an integrated hands-on lab
- Review the concepts with a final test
About this course
This course covers advanced network security from a protection and defense point of view, so you understand how to secure modern networks against cyber threats. It starts with an introduction, then the advanced fundamentals of network security in three parts, then understanding how attackers think and work (the Attacker Mindset), for awareness and to learn how to defend. After that it covers the difference between the Red Team and Blue Team, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS and IPS) in detail, the Threat Hunting methodology, and the Incident Response framework. It then moves to an integrated hands-on lab, a final test and full review, with a workbook and the test questions with their answers. It suits IT professionals, people interested in cybersecurity and anyone with a basic background in networking. By the end you will be able to understand detection and prevention systems, analyze security alerts, follow organized steps for incident response and strengthen network protection.
Expected outcomes
- Ability to analyze and secure networks against cyber attacks.
- Practical understanding of Red Team and Blue Team scenarios.
- Preparedness to work in SOC environments and cybersecurity teams.
- Implement effective incident responses and reduce the impact of breaches.
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Course content
1Advanced Network Security
12 lectures
- Course IntroductionIntroduces the Advanced Network Security course for SOC analysts and security engineers: attack and defense concepts, real incidents, six modules, an integrated lab using tools like Kali, Wireshark, Suricata, Zeek and Nmap, and a final exam.7:20
- Advanced Fundamentals of Network Security - Part OneStarts the Network Security Fundamentals module with a definition of network security and the module goals, common attacks such as ransomware and credential theft, and a real incident that spread within 48 hours, with a timeline of its stages.15:24
- Advanced Fundamentals of Network Security - Part TwoAnalyzes why the 48-hour attack succeeded: no web application monitoring or WAF, weak passwords without MFA, then the alerts the Blue Team should have caught, and how detection speed determines the scale of losses.15:58
- Advanced Fundamentals of Network Security - Part ThreeExplains common attack vectors such as vulnerable routers exploited in DoS attacks and unpatched systems, the attack stages from reconnaissance to enumeration, and the Zero Trust and defense in depth concepts.19:59
- Understanding the Attacker MindsetExplains how an attacker thinks, step by step: shrinking the attack surface, reconnaissance, finding vulnerabilities through CVE, privilege escalation, and lateral movement over SMB and RDP, tied to MITRE ATT&CK technique IDs.24:38
- Attack Simulation (Red Team) and Defense (Blue Team)Explains the difference between the Red Team, which attacks, and the Blue Team, which defends, the attack flow phases from reconnaissance to exploitation, tools like Nmap and Metasploit, and how defenders detect them with Suricata and Zeek.26:32
- IDS & IPS Tools in DepthExplains the difference between IDS and IPS, noting that an IDS is passive and only raises alerts, and how Suricata, Zeek and Wazuh work together to cut false positives, including signature limits against zero-day attacks.25:03
- Threat Hunting MethodologyDefines threat hunting as a proactive approach that starts from hypotheses based on MITRE ATT&CK, with examples of suspicious behavior, how to build queries, and when to escalate findings to incident response.24:22
- Passing ATS SystemsA mid-course test with two questions: a scenario on judging the confidence level of suspected lateral movement and the need to correlate evidence across tools, and a question on the MITRE technique ID for lateral movement.3:28
- Incident Response (IR) FrameworkExplains the Incident Response framework and its phases: detection and analysis with alert filtering and correlation, containment while preserving evidence, eradication, and when an incident can be considered closed.26:13
- Integrated LabA hands-on lab simulating an attack step by step against Kali and lab servers, covering reconnaissance, exploitation and lateral movement, checking whether Zeek detects it, and mapping steps to MITRE technique IDs.59:45
- Final Exam & Course Wrap-upPresents the final exam format and sample questions such as spotting random DNS queries as a C2 indicator, then reviews the course topics, tools and concepts and encourages continuous learning.17:48
2Add-ons
4 attachments
- Download Workbook
- Practical ApplicationApplies the hill climbing algorithm in practice to the problem of placing hospitals among houses on a grid map, writing the code, computing the cost of each state and choosing the best, and leads into simulated annealing.
- Final Exam Questions
- Exam Answers
Instructor
Eng. Moamen Mohamed
This course is part of the diploma
