If you have wondered how attackers get in, this bundle shows you. You build a lab, run penetration tests, and work a capture the flag walkthrough. A short first look at security work, done hands on.
Twenty hours is a short, cheap way to test whether this work suits you. Far less than a vendor certification costs.
Kali Linux, an EVM lab and an OSCP prep lab. You set them up rather than watch someone else do it.
A capture the flag walkthrough runs from SQL injection to a shell. The whole chain, start to finish.
Security teams are short of people who can think like an attacker and write it up clearly. The entry work is easy to picture: checking systems for known weaknesses, helping with an audit, sitting on the response when something trips. This bundle is the first rung, not the whole ladder.
The daily support work inside a security team.
Helping scan systems and sort what matters.
Watching the network and flagging the odd traffic.
Gathering the evidence an audit runs on.
Learning the drill for when something goes wrong.
Supporting the testing work on a senior's lead.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience. Penetration testing and security analyst roles normally want vendor certification and hands-on hours well beyond a short bundle.
Three things worth knowing about this bundle.
The content is built around setting up environments and running tests in them.
Alongside the testing, the bundle covers defence strategies and protecting technology assets.
You enrol through The Career Academy. The course is delivered by OCA, their education partner.
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Awarded by the college on completion.
Recognised points earned when you finish.
Environments you built and tested yourself.
Enquire and an advisor sends the guide and the lab list.
Any day. Weekly plan, or clear it in one payment.
Set up Kali and the prep environments, then test in them.
Take your certificate, then decide if the longer path suits you.
It helps. The bundle assumes you can find your way around a computer and are willing to set up a virtual machine. Ask an advisor if you are unsure.
From $29 a week on a plan, with no deposit and no credit check. Upfront is available. Enquire for current pricing.
About 20 hours of content, with six months of access. It is the shortest bundle on this subject.
A virtual lab on Kali Linux, an EVM:1 lab, and an OSCP prep lab. Then you work a capture the flag walkthrough from SQL injection to a shell.
You enrol through The Career Academy and the course is delivered by OCA, their education partner, as their area of expertise.
Not on its own, and it is worth being clear about that. What it gives you is hands-on lab experience and a picture of the work, for a fraction of the cost of a vendor certification. Plenty of people use exactly this to decide whether to commit to the longer path.
It carries ICOES accreditation and Official Accreditation with the CPD Standards Office, with CPD points on completion, which is accreditation for professional development. It is not NZQA accredited, so it is not a national qualification. Those are different things. Security hiring leans on demonstrated skill and vendor certification.
Yes. A 10-Day Money Back Guarantee runs from enrolment.
You enrol through The Career Academy, an online college in New Zealand, and the course itself is delivered by their education partner OCA.
The Career Academy has run for over 15 years and helps more than 25,000 students a year. Tutor support is unlimited by phone and email in business hours, and career coaching opens as soon as you enrol.
Picture the evening your own lab finally gives up a shell, and you understand exactly how it happened and how to stop it.