Push your boundaries. Protect complex web architectures and defend against evolving cyber threats with cutting-edge cybersecurity strategies. Gain hands-on expertise in threat detection, risk management, and security infrastructure in our Cyber Security Bootcamp.
Step beyond your comfort zone and transform from an aspiring Cyber Security Analyst to an inspiring one. Master Cyber Security with the most comprehensive curriculum on the market. 🚀
What's in store at our Cyber Security bootcamp
You cannot protect what you do not understand. Phase 1 builds the essential technical foundation for your security career while developing the diagnostic mindset of a real incident responder. Through a structured troubleshooting approach, you will learn to think like an analyst from day one.
What you master:
Lab focus: 57 hands-on hardware and troubleshooting labs across the first two phases. This includes your first unassisted diagnostic sessions with real virtual machines and real faults, but no instructions.
Most cybersecurity incidents today move through cloud-connected infrastructure. Understanding modern physical, virtual, and cloud environments is not just background knowledge – it is your map to trace attacks and identify exactly what does not belong.
What you master:
Lab focus: Continued hardware labs plus 31 specialized operating systems labs. Your VDI sessions include real cloud console navigation and virtualisation configuration.
The network is your operating environment as an analyst. Whether you are working in a SOC, conducting vulnerability assessments, or advising on NIS2 compliance, you must read network traffic, understand normal protocol behavior, and spot anomalies immediately. Phase 3 makes you completely fluent in this language.
What you master:
Lab focus: 82 networking and connectivity labs – the largest lab category in the program, reflecting how critical and transferable network analysis is across all cybersecurity roles.
Phase 4 is the most intensive phase of the program and provides your clearest career differentiation. Here, you connect your technical skills with the regulatory reality in Germany, dive deep into AI security, and pass the CompTIA Security+ examination. This unique combination of certification, hands-on GRC, ISO 27001, IT law, and AI security is unmatched.
What you master:
Security Analysis & Incident Response
AI in Cybersecurity
GRC Fundamentals & IT Law
Lab focus: 58 Compliance & Security Framework labs. You write policies, build risk registers, and prepare audit evidence – the exact outputs of a GRC Analyst's working week.
Phase 5 elevates your capabilities to analyst-level. You will tackle complex, real-world scenarios across cloud environments, web applications, and multi-vector attack simulations using industry-standard tools. This phase directly builds the advanced expertise certified by CompTIA CySA+ and completes your AI in Cybersecurity track.
What you master:
Advanced Security Analysis
AI in Cybersecurity
Advanced Cloud Security
Lab focus: 25 Cybersecurity Analysis labs, 6 Cloud & Virtualization labs, and advanced SIEM scenarios. This phase features the highest concentration of unassisted diagnostic sessions, forcing you to solve real issues without a safety net.
The capstone is your professional portfolio – the tangible evidence you present to employers and discuss in interviews. It is structured to produce the exact deliverables that hiring managers in security operations, GRC, and cloud security are actually looking for.
What you produce:
The context: Capstone scenarios are grounded in the German business landscape – whether a Mittelstand manufacturer, a healthcare provider, or a financial services firm. Your entire project aligns directly with the regulatory and operational realities (GDPR, NIS2, ISO 27001) you will encounter on the job.
Assessment criteria:
The most up-to-date, effective tech stack on the market:
Go beyond Security+ and validate analyst-level skills that employers are actively hiring for. CySA+ certifies your ability to detect threats, investigate incidents, and respond to attacks using real SIEM tools and intelligence frameworks — the capabilities that command a measurable salary premium in the German market.
Get hands-on with Wazuh — a leading open-source SIEM and XDR platform — operating across a real Active Directory environment running Windows Server 2022, detecting and investigating live attack events as they happen. You'll use industry-standard tools including Kali Linux, Metasploit, Hydra, and SMB client utilities to simulate real attacker behaviour, then track every event through the SIEM using MITRE ATT&CK mappings. From brute-force detection and privilege escalation to audit log tampering, you'll work through the full SOC analyst workflow — alert triage, threat investigation, and incident documentation — on dedicated virtual machines that mirror a professional security operations environment.
Germany's NIS2 implementation has created mandatory security obligations for 29,000 organisations overnight — and GRC is now the fastest-growing hiring segment in German cybersecurity. You'll learn about fundamentals of audit and Information Security Management System, understand compliance documentation, and learn fundamentals of application of GDPR, NIS2, and BSI-Grundschutz to practical business scenarios.
Learn to profile threat actors, track their tactics using intelligence frameworks, and respond to real incidents using the six-phase response process. From evidence collection to post-incident review, you'll build the structured analytical approach that separates effective security professionals from those who only know the theory.
Learn the basics of penetration testing, including vulnerability scanning, exploiting security flaws, and ethical hacking techniques to assess and strengthen system defenses.
Understand how AI is reshaping both attack and defence — from AI-generated phishing and deepfake fraud to automated alert triage and AI-assisted threat hunting. You'll also understand how to assess the security of your organisation's own AI tools, a skill now required in over 64% of cybersecurity job listings.
Our career service helps you turn your new skills into your next role with CV reviews, LinkedIn feedback, and interview coaching.
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If you’re registered as unemployed (or soon to be) in Germany, you could be eligible to have all your costs covered with a Bildungsgutschein (training voucher).
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4 Months | Full-time
Yes. If you are registered as a jobseeker or at risk of unemployment, you may be eligible for a Bildungsgutschein (education voucher) that covers the full cost of the programme.
The process involves three steps: registering as a jobseeker with your local Agentur für Arbeit or Jobcenter, requesting our official training documentation (we provide this within one working day), and submitting the voucher application. Approval typically takes two to six weeks — cohort sizes are limited to approximately 15 participants, so starting early matters.
Contact us at studienberatung@neuefische.de or +49 30 9173 9346. We will walk you through the process.
No. The programme is designed to take you from foundational IT knowledge to job-ready cybersecurity skills in 16 weeks. Phase 1 begins with how computer systems work and structured troubleshooting — no prior technical knowledge assumed. Career changers from non-technical backgrounds make up a significant part of every cohort.
The 259 structured hands-on labs and two dedicated coaches per cohort are specifically designed to build confidence and capability from wherever you start.
The four certifications (A+ Core 1, A+ Core 2, Security+, CySA+) follow a deliberate progressive structure: each builds on the previous one, and certification preparation is woven into the content rather than treated as a separate study stream.
A+ Core 2 is examined at the end of Phase 1, A+ Core 1 at the end of Phase 2 — while the hardware and networking content is current. Security+ is examined at the end of Phase 4 after 9 weeks of progressively deeper security content. CySA+ is examined at the end of Phase 5 after analyst-level skills have been developed across multiple lab scenarios.
Yes. CompTIA certifications are vendor-neutral and globally recognised. Security+ is the most widely cited entry-level cybersecurity certification in German job postings. CySA+ signals analyst-level readiness and commands a measurable salary premium. A+ is recognised as a baseline for IT and support roles.
CompTIA's certification objectives are aligned with EU cybersecurity frameworks including ISO 27001 and NIS2, which means the credentials speak directly to the compliance requirements German employers are now managing.
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