Defense & Forensics
Binary forensics, defensive exploitation techniques, incident response, and low-level detection with eBPF and EDR.
Recommended Prerequisites
These are recommendations - you can start this track at any time.
About this track
Binary forensics, defensive exploitation techniques, incident response, and low-level detection with eBPF and EDR.
The Defense & Forensics track collects 3 modules and 12 lessons into a single ordered path. Each module ends with a checkpoint quiz; passing the checkpoint unlocks the next module so you can track your progress without guessing whether the material has stuck.
You start with "Binary Forensics & Crash Analysis" and finish on "Low-Level Detection & Instrumentation". The whole track sits inside the Defense & Operations area of the curriculum, so the writing assumes the prerequisites listed above and skips ground that an earlier track has already covered.
What this track covers
- Binary Forensics & Crash Analysis — Core dump analysis, memory forensics with Volatility, disk-level forensics, and firmware forensic techniques for incident investigation.
- Defensive Exploitation & Red Team Techniques — Turn offensive knowledge into defensive power. Learn how fuzzing discovers vulnerabilities before attackers do, how symbolic execution automates exploit generation, how to harden binaries, and how to respond when things go wrong.
- Low-Level Detection & Instrumentation — Kernel-level monitoring with eBPF, EDR internals, network binary analysis, and anti-rootkit detection techniques.
How the track works
Every lesson is a short page with diagrams, runnable examples, and the kind of edge-case footnotes you usually only find in textbooks. Where it makes sense, the lesson is paired with a CPU simulation or a coding challenge so you can poke at the idea instead of just reading about it.
The lessons themselves are free to read with a free account. The 3 checkpoint quizzes that gate the next module are also free, as are the lesson IDE and CPU simulations. Optional 777-tier tools — the step-through debugger, decompiler, ROP gadget builder, heap visualiser, and exploit labs — sit alongside the lessons but are not required to follow the track from start to finish.
You can jump in at any point. Be Bitwise is built around a free forever curriculum, with no time limits and no expiring access. Pick the next lesson when you have an hour; come back when you do not.