If you’re trying to get into network engineering, there’s a point where watching another CCNA video isn’t going to help much.

You need to actually build a network.

That’s what I’m trying to focus on with this program.

It’s 8 weeks of live, hands-on Network Engineering training, followed by an optional 4-week practical internship.

We start from the fundamentals and work toward actually designing, configuring, securing, and troubleshooting networks.

The training covers:

• IPv4/IPv6 + subnetting
• Switching, VLANs, trunking & STP
• Static routing + OSPF
• Inter-VLAN routing + HSRP
• DHCP, DNS & NAT
• Wireless networking
• ACLs, firewalls & VPNs
• Network monitoring & troubleshooting
• Enterprise network design

And then the internship is where you take that knowledge and work through supervised network tasks — design, configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting and documentation.

No prior networking experience is required.

The next cohort starts September 14, 2026.

Current pricing is £99.99 for training or £149.98 for training + internship during the current sale.

If you're serious about moving toward a Network Engineer role and want something more practical than another course sitting in your bookmarks:

Enrollment:
https://training.codelivly.com/programs/network-engineering

Happy to answer questions about what you'll actually be doing during the training/internship.

Hey everyone,

I'm a JHU cybersecurity researcher going through the National Science Foundation I-Corps program — basically trying to figure out if what I'm building actually solves a real problem or if I'm living in an academic bubble.

I'm working on an next-gen security validation tool. I tested it against a FortiGate and a Cloudflare Pro WAF and got some interesting results — the approach found gaps that static tools completely missed on the same target.

But here's the thing — I don't actually know if security teams care about this in practice. So I'm looking for people who deal with WAFs, IPS, firewalls, or BAS tools day to day and would be willing to answer a few questions. Not selling anything, not promoting, genuinely just trying to learn.

Specifically I'm curious about:

1.How do you actually verify your defensive rules work after you deploy them? Or do you just trust them?

1. If you use a BAS tool (Pentera, SafeBreach, Cymulate, etc.) — do you trust its results? Has it ever said "all clear" and then something still got through?

2. When you write a new WAF/IPS rule, do you have a way to test it against attack variants you haven't seen yet?

Happy to do a 15-min call or even just chat in this thread. And I'll share what I'm learning from other conversations — some of the patterns are pretty interesting.

For context I've published at papers and have a patent in process, so this isn't a class project. But I also don't have any customers yet, which is why I need to talk to actual practitioners.

Appreciate any help. Thanks.