Practical Networking

A hands-on, wildly practical introduction to networking and making packets dance. No wasted time, no memorizing, just learning the fundamentals.

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Course curriculum

1. Course Description
2. Why Networking? And why so practical?
3. Memorization and the Lack Thereof
1. Understand That It Is Hard
2. How to Watch Videos
3. Computer Networks Crash Course
4. OSI Model and Encapsulation
5. A Little Reading
6. Basics of Networking
7. SANS CyberAces
8. Chapter Survey 1
1. "Read the RFC"
2. Wikipedia and the Bible
3. "Read the RFC" Part 2
4. Packets and Wireshark
5. Scripting and tshark
6. Chapter Survey 2
1. Basic Commands
2. curl Analysis
3. nslookup Analysis
4. ping Analysis
5. traceroute Analysis
6. A Little Bit More Theory
7. Chapter Survey 3
1. Web Browsing Analysis
2. netcat Analysis
3. telnet Analysis
4. SSH Analysis
5. Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
6. Chapter Survey 4
1. Just a Bit More Theory
2. Simple Sockets
3. Python Simple HTTP Server and Requests
4. Scapy and Pwntools
5. Chapter Survey 5
1. Security Fundamentals: Networking
2. Firewalls, Port-Forwarding, and iptables
3. Malware Command and Control
4. Man in the Middle Lab
5. Chapter Survey 6
1. CTF Meta
2. Challenge 1
3. Challenge 2
4. Challenge 3
5. Challenge 4
6. Challenge 5
7. Challenge 6
8. Challenge 7
9. Chapter Survey 7
1. How To Get Really Good
2. Home Lab
3. SEED Labs
4. That's All Folks
5. Chapter Survey 8

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Lead Instructor Dennis Devey

I work for the US Navy as a Cyber Warfare Engineer. Back in school I was on our competitive Cyber Security Team and focused on building training for new members. I made this website to continue the work I had done and to share it with the widest audience possible.