Cyber Security
Track IT Hardware, Networking & Cyber Security
Duration 60 hours
Skill Level Foundation
Language English

About this Course

In a digital world, we are more vulnerable to malicious attacks, cyber frauds, invasions of privacy, and other such bad activities.This course …
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home

Detailed Course Curriculum

Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.

  • Securing Personal Devices and Operating Systems
  • Securing Wi-Fi, LAN Networks
  • Tools used for Ethical Hacking
  • Data and Information security
  • Cyber Attacks and their Types
  • Overview of Computer Viruses
  • Downloading and Installing Good Antivirus Software
  • Rootkits
  • Botnets
  • Ransomware
  • Securing Personal computers and Operating Systems
  • Patch Management
  • Patch Deployment and verification
  • Installing and configuring Open Source Firewall
  • Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention System
  • Network Load Balancers
  • Setting LAB environment
  • VPN Configuration
  • Types of Cyber Attacks
  • Phishing and Spoofing attacks
  • Social Engineering
  • Using Network Packet Analyzers
  • Ethical Hacking
  • Foot printing
  • Open Source Security Scanning tools like NMAP
  • Using Kali Linux for exploring various Ethical Hacking Tools
Eligibility Criteria
• Basic knowledge of computers and keen desire to build skills in this field.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
Official Certification
• Official MKCL KLiC Certificate upon successful completion of the course and evaluations.
Target Audience & Who Should Join
• Beginners or IT professionals interested in ethical hacking and penetration testing who want to learn tools like Kali Linux, Nmap, and Wireshark.
• Cybersecurity Enthusiasts interested in understanding the basics of cybersecurity, ethical hacking tools, and methods to protect data and information.
• System administrators, network engineers, and IT support personnel seeking to improve their cybersecurity knowledge and learn to secure networks, devices, and operating systems.
• General Users who want to learn about protecting their personal devices, secure their home or office networks, and prevent cyber threats.
• Individuals studying information security or related fields looking for practical exposure to cybersecurity tools and techniques.
Work-Centric Learning Approach
• Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!

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