Dates: 2nd December & 3rd December, 2020

For Ages: 15 - 18 (Other slots available for ages 12-14)

Duration: 15 Hours

Time: 0930am- 630pm (Lunch not provided. Students to be given lunch money to purchase food from nearby food centres)

Location:

One Sims Lane (Opposite Aljunied MRT)

#03-08

Singapore 387355

TLDR;

• Course contents derived from battle hardened and weather tested experience.
• Certificate of completion upon finishing the bootcamp
• Classroom laptops provided. Simply turn up!
• Surgically focused sessions with max teacher-student ratio of 1:10
• Experienced teachers who have taught the course in schools and polytechnics.
• Strict adherance to safety measurement measures

RFA Coding Bootcamps offer students a safe starter kit to the world of coding with engaging, easy to digest sessions and battle-hardened content taught by experienced teachers.

Bootcamp Introduction

Cyber Security Bootcamp is a practical course that will cover fundamental technical skills needed to get into cyber security fields, and also other IT fields. Topics will cover Linux operating system, basic computer networking, cryptography and web technologies. Knowledge of these topics will help learners understand the technical aspects of the digital world around us, and have the skill to use and manipulate these technologies.

Practical Lab:

Participants require only a laptop (provided for the class) and their web browsers to work on the practical labs.

They will learn the following:

• Algorithm design so that they can break down into steps what they want the computer code to achieve
• Displaying information on the screen
• Obtaining user input
• Storing and using different data types
• Structuring data for ease of use in code
• Stepping through data to find information
• Controlling programme flow
• Simplifying the writing of code for repeatability, reusability, and maintainability
• Solving bugs by investigating the cause of the problem
• Writing elegant code that is simple and effective

Topics to be covered:

1. Linux Fundamentals
2. Computer Networking
3. Practical Cryptography
4. Web Fundamentals
5. Capture the Flag challenge (If time and progress permits)

Learning Outcomes:

Able to manoeuvre around the Linux Operating Systems

• File creating
• Changing directories
• Creating and reading files
• Read and change file permissions
• Text manipulation

Able to work with computer networks on Linux

• Check their IP address on Linux
• Check their MAC address on Linux
• Describe what is MAC address
• Describe the difference between LAN and WAN

Able to use CyberChef and online tools to work with cryptography

• Understand text encoding
• Use CyberChef and online tools to encode/decode Base64 encoding
• Encode and decode data using substitution ciphers
• Describe the 2 types of encryption
• Use the 2 types of encryption to encrypt data with encryption tools.

Able to describe web technologies

• Describe the technology stack
• Use browser developer tools to inspect a webpage
• Encode and decode URL encoding
• Describe HTTP/HTTPS data structure
• Describe HTTP status codes. i.e. 404, 500 etc.
• Web application analysis

* List is non-exhaustive and is dependent of the speed and progress of each class.

Useful For The Following Professions:

• Programmer
• Web developer
• Cyber Security Red Teams
• Cyber Security Blue Teams
• System Administrator
• Network Administrator

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For enquiries email: enquiries@riverfortacademy.sg