Resecurity® Cybersecurity Professional Foundations (RCCPF)
Start a cybersecurity career on solid ground.
About this course
Start a cybersecurity career on solid ground. Over five days you will learn the language, technology and workflows behind modern security operations, from networks, Windows and Linux to malware, social engineering, monitoring, threat intelligence and incident response.
Demonstrations, guided exercises and realistic scenarios show how systems, users, threats and risk connect, and the course prepares you for the RCCPF knowledge assessment. No prior security specialism is needed, so it suits newcomers and career changers.
What you'll learn
- Use core cybersecurity terms and security principles with confidence.
- Recognise common threats, vulnerabilities, malware families and social-engineering tricks.
- Read network basics such as IP addressing, protocols and common services from a security angle.
- Apply basic hardening and security concepts on Windows and Linux systems.
- Explain how SIEM, endpoint protection and monitoring support defence.
- Sort and classify simple security events and describe the next step for each.
- Describe where threat intelligence, incident response and risk fit in a security team.
- Report findings clearly using the right professional vocabulary.
Curriculum
- Core terminology and the CIA triad
- Security principles and defence in depth
- Roles across a modern security team
- How attacks unfold from first contact to impact
- IP addressing and subnets
- Key protocols and ports
- Common network services and their weak points
- Reading simple packet captures
- Users, permissions and privileges
- Processes, services and logs
- Basic hardening and patching
- Command-line essentials
- Malware types and behaviour
- Phishing and social engineering
- Vulnerabilities, exploits and patch gaps
- Typical attack paths through an organisation
- Firewalls and endpoint protection
- SIEM concepts and log collection
- Alerts, events and false positives
- Classifying basic security events
- What threat intelligence adds to defence
- Indicators of compromise
- The incident response lifecycle
- First-responder do's and don'ts
- Assets, threats and likelihood
- Impact and risk treatment
- Policies, controls and awareness
- Speaking about risk to non-specialists
- Guided cybersecurity scenarios
- Writing a short findings note
- Review of key concepts
- Knowledge assessment preparation
Who it's for
Students, graduates, career changers and junior IT, help-desk and SOC staff who need a structured start in cybersecurity.
Before you start
- Comfortable everyday use of a computer, files and the internet.
Prepares for
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