IT Fundamentals
Build vendor-neutral intermediate IT knowledge from hardware and operating systems through access, automation, logging, hardening and recovery. Apply each mechanism to cybersecurity controls and reproducible audit evidence.
9
rooms
1530
total XP
7h
est. time
What you'll be able to do
- ›Explain boot, process and filesystem trust boundaries
- ›Automate reliable evidence collection with a POSIX shell
- ›Evaluate identity, logging and patch controls against observed state
- ›Audit a small estate and substantiate recovery and exception decisions
Rooms
Computer Architecture
Understand boot integrity, memory hierarchy, asset evidence and test the resulting controls with reproducible evidence.
Operating Systems
Understand process isolation, service privilege, kernel boundaries and test the resulting controls with reproducible evidence.
Filesystems and Permissions
Understand posix modes, acl evaluation, special bits and test the resulting controls with reproducible evidence.
Command Line and Safe Automation
Understand posix shell, exit handling, evidence collection and test the resulting controls with reproducible evidence.
Identity and Authentication
Understand mfa factors, federation, identity lifecycle and test the resulting controls with reproducible evidence.
Logging and Time
Understand event correlation, clock integrity, retention and test the resulting controls with reproducible evidence.
Hardening and Patching
Understand baseline drift, patch lifecycle, risk prioritization and test the resulting controls with reproducible evidence.
Backup and Recovery
Understand rpo and rto, raid limits, restore assurance and test the resulting controls with reproducible evidence.
IT Fundamentals Capstone
Understand estate audit, control testing, evidence pack and test the resulting controls with reproducible evidence.