cyber-security Core Concepts

Explore the essential foundations of cyber-security, including threat types, security principles, network defense, encryption, and ethical hacking. This section helps you understand how to protect systems, networks, and data from digital attacks through practical knowledge, best practices, and real-world projects.

📄️ Network Security Basics

Learn how network security protects data in motion, prevents unauthorized access, and keeps communication safe across the web.

📄️ Types of Cyberattacks

Explore the most common types of cyberattacks, how they work, and how to protect yourself and your systems from them.

📄️ Cryptography and Encryption

Learn how cryptography and encryption protect data, ensure privacy, and form the backbone of modern cyber security.

📄️ Web Application Security

Practical guide to securing web applications — threats, secure coding practices, OWASP Top Ten, testing methods, and deployment hardening.

📄️ Ethical Hacking Basics

Learn the mindset, methodology, and safe tools ethical hackers use to find and fix security weaknesses—always in a controlled, authorized environment.

📄️ Ethical Hacking & Cyber Defense

Learn ethical hacking techniques, the penetration testing lifecycle, common tools, and defensive strategies to harden systems and respond to attacks.

📄️ The Dark Web

Understand what the Dark Web really is, how it differs from the surface and deep web, common uses (both legitimate and criminal), risks, legal/ethical considerations, and safe ways to learn more without crossing lines.

📄️ Incident Response

Learn how cybersecurity professionals detect, respond to, and recover from security incidents through structured response frameworks and real-world practices.