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Network Security Trainer & Mentor  ·  15+ Years

Ram
Dixit

Turning complex enterprise security into hands-on, job-ready skills.

15+ Years Expertise 500+ Professionals Trained 20+ Security Platforms
02Profile

About the Trainer

A senior cybersecurity trainer with 15+ years of expertise spanning enterprise network security, cloud security, Zero Trust architecture, SASE and security operations.

Specialises in corporate batch delivery — curriculum built around the client's own security stack, not a generic syllabus, and taught by an instructor who has run these platforms in production.

Instruction is lab-driven end to end: every concept is followed by a build, a break and a fix in a live environment, so learners leave able to configure, not just describe.

Mentors working professionals into security roles — firewall and cloud security engineering, SOC analysis and offensive security — with structured progression and certification support.

Quick Facts

Focus
Corporate & Professional Training
Delivery
Online · On-site · Hybrid
Base
Noida, India
Languages
English, Hindi
03Core Training Domains

Six domains, taught to production depth

Enterprise Firewalls & NGFW

Policy design, App-ID and threat prevention, HA pairs, VPN and centralised management at enterprise scale.

Cloud Security, SASE & SSE

Traffic forwarding, SSL inspection, DLP and CASB controls delivered from the cloud edge instead of the branch.

Zero Trust Architecture

Identity-anchored access, micro-segmentation and least-privilege app publishing that retires flat-network trust.

Application Delivery & WAF

Load balancing, health monitors, SSL offload and application-layer protection for public-facing services.

SIEM, SOC & Threat Detection

Log pipelines, correlation logic, alert triage and the incident workflow a real SOC shift actually runs on.

VAPT & Offensive Security

Recon through exploitation and post-exploitation, scored with CVSS and written up to a client-ready standard.

04Technology Expertise

Platforms I Train On

Hands-on instruction across the vendor stack enterprises actually run — grouped by the role each platform plays in the architecture.

Firewall & NGFW

Perimeter & Segmentation
PAN-OS · Panorama
FortiGate · FortiManager
Quantum Security Gateway
ASA · Firepower FTD

Cloud & SASE

Secure Service Edge
ZIA · ZPA · ZDX
SSE · CASB · DLP
Zero Trust · WAF
Prisma Access

Cloud Platforms

Workload & Identity
Azure network security
VPC · Security Groups · IAM
OCI networking & security

Application & Load Balancing

Delivery & WAF
BIG-IP LTM · ASM · GTM
NetScaler ADC

SIEM & SOC

Detection & Response
Enterprise Security
Microsoft Sentinel
Open-source XDR & SIEM
ATT&CK framework

NAC & Identity

Access Control
Identity Services Engine
ClearPass
eyeSight · eyeControl

All product names, logos and brands are the property of their respective owners, shown here to indicate training coverage — not affiliation or endorsement.

05Modern & Emerging Tech

Current-Generation Curriculum

What enterprise security teams are being asked to run this year — taught alongside the fundamentals, not instead of them.

SASE & Security Service Edge

Branch security has moved to the cloud edge — teams now operate policy, not appliances.

Zero Trust Network Access

ZTNA is replacing full-tunnel VPN, and every remote-access design decision changes with it.

Container & Kubernetes Security

Workloads are ephemeral — securing them needs admission control, not firewall rules.

DevSecOps & CI/CD Security

The pipeline is now an attack surface: secrets, dependencies and build integrity all in scope.

AI / LLM Security & Prompt Threats

Prompt injection and data leakage through AI tooling are live risks in enterprise rollouts.

XDR, CTEM & Exposure Management

Continuous exposure scoring is replacing the annual scan as the board-level security metric.

06Training Programs

Four structured programs

Each program runs on a fixed weekly cadence with lab time in every session and a scored assessment at the end.

01

Network Security Professional

6 Weeks
  • NGFW security policy design and rule-base hygiene
  • VPN and secure remote access architectures
  • Network segmentation and trust-zone modelling
  • Panorama and centralised multi-device management
02

Cloud Security & Zero Trust with Zscaler

5 Weeks
  • ZIA policy framework, URL and cloud app control
  • ZPA application segmentation and connector design
  • ZDX visibility and user-experience troubleshooting
  • SSL inspection design, exemptions and certificate handling
03

SOC Analyst & SIEM Operations

6 Weeks
  • Log pipelines: collection, parsing and normalisation
  • Correlation rules and detection engineering basics
  • Alert triage, false-positive tuning and escalation
  • Incident response playbooks and shift handover
04

VAPT & Offensive Security

8 Weeks
  • Reconnaissance, enumeration and attack surface mapping
  • OWASP Top 10 exploitation, hands-on
  • Exploitation chains and post-exploitation movement
  • CVSS scoring and professional assessment reporting
07Hands-On Lab Delivery

Labs, Not Slides

Every session ends in a console. Learners build the configuration, break it, read the logs and fix it — the same loop they will run on the job.

Live Virtual Labs

Full topologies built in GNS3 and EVE-NG with real firewall, load balancer and NAC images.

Each learner gets an isolated pod and configures from a blank device — no pre-built answers.

Designs are validated against failure: HA cut-over, route loss, broken inspection.

Packet Analysis Workshops

Wireshark from the first capture: filters, streams, TLS handshakes and retransmissions.

Traces are read to prove what the firewall or proxy actually did to the traffic.

Real incident captures are dissected to reconstruct the attacker's sequence.

Attack & Defend Simulations

One side attacks with Kali, Nmap, Nessus, Burp Suite and Metasploit against a live target.

The other side defends and hunts in Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel in real time.

Debrief maps every action to detection gaps and the control that should have caught it.

lab-pod-07 · attack & defend
$ nmap -sV -p- 10.20.7.0/24 # recon: 254 hosts, 3 exposed $ wireshark -Y "tls.handshake.type == 1" # SNI on inspected egress $ splunk search index=fw action=allowed dest_port=445 ▸ 4 events correlation rule SMB-lateral-01 fired → triage $ verdict: segmentation policy missing east-west deny — fix & re-test
GNS3EVE-NGWiresharkNmap NessusBurp SuiteMetasploit Kali LinuxSplunkMicrosoft Sentinel
08Tools & Simulators

Practice platforms I built for learners

Free, browser-based tooling used inside my sessions and open to every learner afterwards — no lab hardware, no licences, no signup for the utilities.

09Video Library

Teaching, on the record

A free public library of platform deep-dives, troubleshooting walk-throughs and career guidance — the same explanations used in paid batches.

YouTube — @techclick_in

Zscaler, Palo Alto, Check Point, career roadmaps and cyber-awareness, published free.

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10Corporate Capability

Corporate & Enterprise Batches

Training built around your environment, your rollout timeline and your team's current level.

Customised Curriculum

Content is mapped to the client's existing security stack — the same vendors, versions and design patterns already deployed, so learning transfers to production on day one.

Flexible Delivery

Weekday, weekend, fast-track and blended formats — scheduled around shift rosters and project cycles, delivered online, on-site or hybrid.

Skill Assessment

A pre-training baseline establishes where each participant actually stands, and a scored post-training evaluation shows the delta — reportable to management.

Certification Readiness

Structured exam preparation with blueprint coverage, timed practice tests and targeted revision on the domains where the batch scores weakest.

Batch sizes from 8 to 60 participants, online or on-site.

11Certifications & Education

Credentials behind the classroom

CCNA

Cisco Certified Network Associate

PCNSE

Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer

Zscaler Certified

ZIA · ZPA

Fortinet NSE

Network Security Expert Program

CISSP — In Progress

(ISC)² · Certification underway

Academic Foundation

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)

Computer Science
Uttar Pradesh Technical University

Vendor certifications are renewed and extended continuously as platforms change, so course content tracks current releases rather than legacy behaviour.

New platform tracks are added to the curriculum only after hands-on build and validation in the lab.

12Training Outcomes

What the training produces

15+Years Expertise
500+Professionals Trained
20+Security Platforms
100+Lab Scenarios

Career Transition

Learners move into security analyst, network security engineer and SOC analyst roles.

Interview preparation covers design reasoning, not memorised definitions.

Mentorship continues past the final session until the role is secured.

Corporate Upskilling

Teams take Zero Trust and SASE rollouts from concept to a working configuration.

Incident response improves as analysts stop escalating what they can resolve.

Existing platform investment gets used to its actual capability.

Certification Success

Strong pass rates across Palo Alto, Cisco and Zscaler credential tracks.

Exam blueprints are covered domain by domain with timed practice.

Weak domains are re-taught before the attempt, not after the fail.

Get in touch

Let's Build Your Security Team's Skills

Email
Support@techclick.in
Phone
+91 92772 29456
Location
Noida, India
Web
www.techclick.in
YouTube
@techclick_in

Ram Dixit · Network Security Trainer & Mentor