1 DDoS Basics and Types 8 lessons · Beginner · Level 1 Understanding Denial of Service, attack types, and impact on services.
2 Network Fundamentals 8 lessons · Beginner · Level 2 TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, and how protocols relate to DDoS attacks.
3 Common Attack Vectors 8 lessons · Beginner · Level 3 Volumetric, protocol, and application-layer attack types.
4 DDoS Tools Overview 8 lessons · Beginner · Level 4 Understanding attack tools for defensive and educational purposes.
5 Impact and Cost Assessment 8 lessons · Beginner · Level 5 Measuring downtime, revenue loss, and business impact.
6 SYN Flood and TCP Attacks 8 lessons · Intermediate · Level 1 TCP handshake exploitation, half-open connections, and SYN cookies.
7 UDP Amplification 8 lessons · Intermediate · Level 2 DNS, NTP, Memcached amplification and reflection attacks.
8 HTTP Flood and Layer 7 8 lessons · Intermediate · Level 3 Application-layer attacks, slowloris, and request flooding.
9 Botnets and DDoS 8 lessons · Intermediate · Level 4 Botnet architecture, C2, and distributed attack coordination.
10 Detection Fundamentals 8 lessons · Intermediate · Level 5 Traffic analysis, anomaly detection, and baseline establishment.
11 Mitigation Techniques 8 lessons · Advanced · Level 1 Rate limiting, blackholing, scrubbing, and traffic filtering.
12 CDN and DDoS Protection 8 lessons · Advanced · Level 2 Cloudflare, Akamai, and edge-based DDoS mitigation.
13 Defense Architecture 8 lessons · Advanced · Level 3 Redundancy, failover, and resilient infrastructure design.
14 DDoS Incident Response 8 lessons · Advanced · Level 4 Playbooks, escalation, and real-time response procedures.
15 Legal and Ethical Aspects 8 lessons · Advanced · Level 5 Laws, regulations, and ethical boundaries in DDoS research.
16 Advanced Mitigation 8 lessons · Professional · Level 1 ML-based detection, behavioral analysis, and adaptive defense.
17 Stress and Load Testing 8 lessons · Professional · Level 2 Legitimate load testing, chaos engineering, and capacity planning.
18 DDoS Forensics 8 lessons · Professional · Level 3 Attack attribution, log analysis, and post-incident investigation.
19 Enterprise DDoS Defense 8 lessons · Professional · Level 4 Multi-layer defense, hybrid solutions, and managed services.