Content readyCybersecurity

Information Security Engineer

Secure Nordwind's network, defend it against a real phishing incident, and close out with a full security audit — the founding story of the whole Nordwind universe.

9 months (40 weeks)

Duration

Modules

EN / ID / RU

Languages

Self-paced text lessons + practical assignments

Format

What you'll learn

✓Design and harden a company network end to end (AD, DMZ, VPN, SIEM)
✓Investigate and respond to a real phishing incident inside the story
✓Run penetration tests and close findings against a live risk register
✓Defend a full security audit in front of Nordwind's CTO

Curriculum

Module 01Network & Infrastructure Foundations

Module 02Active Directory & Identity

Module 03Phishing Incident: Detection & Response

Module 04Perimeter Security & DMZ

Module 05VPN & Secure Remote Access

Module 06SIEM & Security Monitoring

Module 07Linux Server Hardening

Module 08Web Application Security

Module 09Penetration Testing Fundamentals

Module 10Vulnerability Management

Module 11Security Policy & Risk Register

Module 12Security Audit Practices

Module 13Legal & Compliance Basics

Module 14Capstone: Full Security Audit & Defense

Mentors

Marina Volkova

CTO, Nordwind

Opens every capstone defense across the Nordwind catalog.

Viktor (Egorov)

Head of Infrastructure, Nordwind

Started as Nordwind's lone sysadmin, now runs its whole infrastructure team.

Alisa Kim

Head of Customer Support → Container & Supply-Chain Security Lead, Nordwind

Lived through the phishing incident in Module 3 — now teaches how to stop it happening again.

Dmitri Sokolov

Independent Penetration Tester & Capstone Reviewer

The outside expert Nordwind brings in when it's time to defend real work.