Cyber Security Essentials
Start here if you have never touched security. Ten weeks, a real lab on your own laptop, and an instructor who reviews everything you submit.
10wk
Course Length
24
Lessons & Labs
8
Modules
Start Cyber Security With Zero Background
Everyone in security started somewhere, and almost nobody started knowing what a port or a protocol was. This course is that somewhere. It is written for people with no IT background at all — we explain how a computer talks to a website before we ever mention an attack.
By the end you will understand how systems work, how attackers abuse them, and how to defend yourself and others — and you will have set up your own safe lab with the same free tools professionals use. It is the perfect foundation before the Zero to Hero Ethical Hacking Course.
Skills You Leave With
- Understand how computers, networks and the internet actually work.
- Speak the language of security — the CIA triad, threats, vulnerabilities and risk.
- Recognise phishing, malware and social engineering before they catch you.
- Lock down your own accounts, devices and home network properly.
- Set up a safe virtual lab and take your first steps with real tools.
- Know the career paths in cyber security and how to reach them.
- Read a network diagram and explain how data actually moves across it.
- Harden Windows and Linux to a standard a real auditor would accept.
- Spot phishing, social engineering and scam infrastructure with confidence.
- Build and reset a safe, isolated home lab whenever you want to practise.
8 Modules, 24 Lessons
- What happens when you open a website 30 min
- IP addresses, ports and protocols 36 min
- Operating systems: Windows, Linux, macOS 33 min
- Lab: build a safe virtual lab 60 min
- The CIA triad and why it matters 28 min
- Threats, vulnerabilities and risk 32 min
- Who the attackers are and what they want 30 min
- Assignment: threat-model your own devices —
- Phishing and social engineering 34 min
- Malware: viruses, ransomware, trojans 38 min
- Weak passwords and credential theft 31 min
- Lab: spot the phishing email 45 min
- Passwords, MFA and password managers 30 min
- Updates, backups and safe browsing 29 min
- Securing home and public Wi-Fi 27 min
- Lab: harden a Windows machine 60 min
- Getting comfortable in the Linux terminal 40 min
- Your first look at Nmap and Wireshark 42 min
- Reading network traffic safely 35 min
- Lab: scan and inspect your own lab 90 min
- Blue team vs red team careers 26 min
- Building a home lab and a study plan 30 min
- Final quiz —
- Certificate issue and review —
- How phishing kits are actually built 32 min
- Scam infrastructure: domains, hosting, payment rails 28 min
- Passwords, MFA and why both still fail 35 min
- Lab: pull apart a real phishing email, header by header Graded
- What a SOC analyst does on an ordinary Tuesday 30 min
- Certifications worth the money, and the ones that are not 26 min
- Lab: write your first incident note the way an employer expects Graded
"I always thought cyber security was too technical for me. This course proved me wrong — I finished it and went straight into the ethical hacking course with confidence."
— Graduate, Cohort 3LKR 7,500 / course
90 days of lab access after the final session.
- Duration 10 weeks
- Lessons 24
- Graded labs 7
- Level Absolute Beginner
- Live sessions 2 / week
- Language English & Sinhala
- Certificate Included
Seats fill fast — next cohort opens the first Monday of the month
Tell us which course and when you would like to start — we reply with the next available cohort. Get in touch or call +94 76 759 0967.
- A computer and an internet connection.
- No IT or security background at all — this is the true starting point.
- Curiosity and a couple of hours a week.
Nipun Dinudaya
Lead InstructorTeaches every Velpoint course personally, from the first Linux command to the final client-ready report. Cohorts are capped at 20 so every lab submission is reviewed by hand and nobody gets left behind.
Everything You Get Access To
All of this is yours from day one, with 90 days of lab access after the final session.
Lab Setup Walkthrough
A beginner-proof PDF and video for installing VirtualBox and your first Kali and Windows machines.
Plain-English Security Glossary
Every term in the course explained without jargon, so nothing goes over your head.
Personal Security Checklist
A step-by-step checklist to lock down your own accounts, devices and home network today.
Beginner Workbook
Short exercises after each module to make the concepts stick, with worked answers.
Guided Starter Lab
A gentle, guided lab environment with hints — nothing you can break permanently.
Cyber Security Career Roadmap
A clear map of blue-team and red-team paths and which Velpoint course to take next.
Personal Hardening Checklist
The exact settings to change on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, in order of impact.
Networking One-Pager
Ports, protocols and the OSI layers on a single sheet you can keep beside you.
Other Courses
Zero to Job Ready
Cyber Security Career Track
Our full syllabus in one guided programme: networking, Linux, Windows, security fundamentals, offence, defence and a portfolio project — taught live, zero to job-ready.
All Levels
Ethical Hacking & Red Team
Go from your first Nmap scan to a full authorised engagement — recon, exploitation, privilege escalation, Active Directory and a client-ready report.
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