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Module 4: Networking Basics for Defenders
The defender's mental model of a network: IPs, ports, protocols, and packet captures, taught with diagrams and a guided walk-through.
60 min · beginner
View module ->Cybersecurity I, Unit 4: Networking Fundamentals
From 'wifi just works' to seeing the actual packets. Students leave this unit able to read a network diagram, run ping/traceroute/nslookup, and walk a Wireshark capture line by line.
240 min · foundational
View module ->Cybersecurity I, Unit 6: Cryptography and Data Protection
Hashing, symmetric, asymmetric, signatures, certificates, and TLS - taught at the level a defender actually needs. No math degree required.
240 min · foundational
View module ->Cybersecurity I, Unit 7: Defensive Security Basics
Hardening 101. Students harden a real Windows VM and a real Linux VM, audit accounts, configure a host firewall, and walk away with a defender's mindset.
240 min · foundational
View module ->Cybersecurity II, Unit 1: Cyber I Review and Advanced Lab Orientation
Reset the lab. Re-establish the rules. Diagnose where the class is in fact and where the class thinks it is. Ship out of Day 1 with a working, segmented, validated cyber range.
240 min · intermediate
View module ->Cybersecurity II, Unit 2: Advanced Networking and Network Defense
VLANs, segmentation, NAT, firewall rule design, IDS/IPS concepts, VPN, and zero trust at the level a defender actually uses. Students design and defend a segmented network.
300 min · intermediate
View module ->Cybersecurity II, Unit 4: Reconnaissance and Open-Source Intelligence
Build a complete OSINT picture of a fictional company without ever sending them a packet. Then validate your sources, document your methodology, and respect the line.
240 min · intermediate
View module ->Cybersecurity II, Unit 5: Scanning, Enumeration, and Vulnerability Assessment
From recon to a defensible list of weaknesses with severity, evidence, and proof. Nmap, Nessus/OpenVAS, banner grabbing, service enumeration, and the discipline of validating every finding.
360 min · intermediate
View module ->Cybersecurity II, Unit 6: Ethical Exploitation Concepts
Where the ethics meet the keyboard. Authorized exploitation in the lab range only: Metasploit basics, password attacks against teacher-issued hash sets, post-exploitation concepts, and the discipline of stopping at proof-of-concept.
360 min · advanced
View module ->Cybersecurity II, Unit 12: Risk Management, Governance, and Compliance
The skill that decides who runs the program. Risk math, frameworks (NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS), and the regulations students will actually meet at work (HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, FERPA, GDPR/CCPA).
240 min · intermediate
View module ->Cybersecurity II, Unit 14: Career Readiness and Work-Based Learning
Resume, LinkedIn, GitHub, certs, mock interviews, internship pipeline. The unit that turns a high-school cyber program into a hireable young professional.
240 min · intermediate
View module ->AI Fluency, Unit 10: Capstone - Build a Useful AI Tool
Put it all together. Each student ships a working AI tool that solves a real problem in their life: a local-LLM study buddy, a prompt-library product, a RAG over their notes, or an image-gen workflow. Disclose, verify, contribute - graded for real.
240 min · applied
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