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Applied Network Defense

Online

Our training courses are primarily delivered online so you can access them from the comfort of your home or office. We offer individual course access or dedicated classes for your entire team.

Expert-Led

You'll learn from active cyber security practitioners focused on helping you develop skills that matter. Every course we create is one we wish existed when we were learning a specific skill.

Affordable

Our pricing is designed to be affordable to individuals who are funding their own education, but also to scale for organizations who want to train their entire security team.

Testimonials From Our Students

James Ducroiset, Investigation Theory Student

Investigation Theory is the course that you want to take to learn how to be or improve on being an analyst. I would consider this course a MUST have before focusing on tools. Wish I would have had this course when I started down this whole analyst path. This is the only course that have come across that actually focuses on the whys and whens and not just a bunch of tools and how to use them. Hands down one of the best if not the best course I have taken. It made me think and work through my thoughts in such a way that feel like I own the material learned. Thank you for leading this horse to water.

Mike Cusack, Investigation Theory Student

TAKE INVESTIGATION THEORY! Coming into a job as a new security analyst is largely overwhelming and fast paced. You need to be quick and this course helps you learn what to expect in order to quickly dive into the workload. I really like the metacognition and idea of thinking about thinking. In this field, you always have to be thinking like an attacker. What’s next, where else could an intruder go? You have to ask yourselves these types of questions when covering an investigation to account for the entire scope.

Adam Army, RegEx Student

The course does a great job of explaining and easing into things. The most useful thing I learned was about efficiency and lookaheads/lookbehinds. The latter open quite a few possibilities for capturing that I hadn’t considered before. I was surprised to learn about the different applications for Regex. I tend to think of it in a very specific use-case (Splunk) and it was a neat experience seeing other applications that use it.

Joe, ELK Student

This course is easy to follow and provides the necessary foundation in understanding how each component interacts with the others. I find the course is clear, concise, and suggests practical approaches to implement in security environments. The labs were very easy to follow, and having the sample data available allowed me to spend less time configuring additional feeds and more time manipulating. Finally, it has simple navigation and allows you to effortlessly pick-up where you left off. Prior to the course, I only had experience with Kibana. Now, I have a full understanding of the data flow, architecture, and configuration steps!

Jesse, Suricata Student

I was a beginner, never using Suricata or an IDS/IPS before. This course really helped me understand how to interpret network traffic and how I can manipulate it to find anything on that is happening on a network. The training goes very in-depth with Suricata and acts as a good guide to learn and understand how Suricata works.

Alex, Packet Analysis Student

Practical Packet Analysis has given me additional knowledge in using Wireshark to confidently analyze network traffic, and some techniques to share with my peers. There is significant bang for your buck in this course.

Josephine, Packet Analysis Student

Practical Packet Analysis has a gentle and consistent progression from introductory academic concept to understanding how the concept works in the wild to understanding how to read the concept in a packet. It helps you understand networks and events via analyzing packets. The labs were excellent. Especially the labs with video explanations available to look at afterward.

Vikrant Navalgund, Investigation Theory Student

I needed an orientation kind of course to start my journey into this domain. Although I had exposure and knew the content I wanted an experienced person like Chris to walk me through the domain and the craft. Was not disappointed. I would highly recommend this for any beginner or somebody who knows a lot but is confused as to whether he/she is on the correct path or not, happens with the deluge of information we have today on the internet.

Pushkar, Investigation Theory Student

The labs were cool. When you hear simulation, sometimes you think of those boring government simulations you have to complete to check off some box for compliance. But you could tell that the instructor really took his time to make the labs enjoyable and instructive.

Featured Course

Sigma is the open standard language for writing detection queries for logs. In the Detection Engineering with Sigma class, you’ll get hands-on experience writing, modifying, and interpreting Sigma rules based on real-world detection scenarios. You’ll also learn how to use sigmac to convert your rules to formats compatible with common SIEM and log aggregator tools like Splunk, Elastic, and more.

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