Cybersecurity Foundations
The fastest route from no practical background to having actually done the work. Six labs, each ending in something the participant did rather than watched: a scan they ran, a log they triaged, an exploit they patched.
This workshop is no longer offered as a scheduled open session. The material now runs inside our weekend cohorts, which have published dates and seats you can book today. It is still available as a private session for a single team or institution.
See the weekend cohorts →- Format
- One day · on-site or virtual
- Duration
- One day · 6 labs
- Who it is for
- Students and career switchers, no prerequisites
What you leave able to do
- Run and read an Nmap scan against a real target
- Triage a log file down to the events that matter
- Exploit a known vulnerability, then patch it
- Review a cloud configuration and find what is exposed
Run of play
- 1
Reconnaissance
What an attacker learns before touching anything, and how.
- 2
Log triage
Thousands of lines to the handful that constitute an incident.
- 3
Exploit and patch
Both halves. Breaking it is only useful if you can close it.
- 4
Cloud configuration review
The misconfigurations that cause most real breaches.
What runs now
This format now runs as a dated cohort
The material from this workshop is taught across the AI SOC Analyst weekend cohort, which has published dates and seats you can book today.
Sat 17 Oct 2026
Foundations and the first alert
Sat 24 Oct 2026
AI-era phishing and the initial foothold
Sat 31 Oct 2026
Endpoint investigation and containment
Sat 14 Nov 2026
Cloud SOC and lateral movement
Sat 21 Nov 2026
Detection engineering and automation
Sat 28 Nov 2026
Immersive day and certification exam
Or take the full programme
Six Saturdays live, plus three months of the complete lab course.
Other courses running now
Prerequisites
None. Labs are personalised to your industry and target role at the start of the day.
Want this run for your team?
Sessions are scoped to the audience — a placement cell, a security team and a leadership group each need a different shape. Tell us who it is for and we will come back with a format and a date.