Blue Team Engineer Programme
Twenty-eight live, tutor-led classes for people who will design, build and evidence security controls rather than operate them.
- Level3
- Live classes28, two hours each
- Classroom time56 hours
- Modules14
- Before you startTechnical experience assumed
Learn, practise, prove
- LearnLive classes with your tutor: 1 hour 45 minutes of teaching, then your questions. Every class is recorded.
- PractiseHands-on labs in your own tenant, with setup guidance from your tutor.
- ProveAssignments marked by your tutor, with written feedback. Pass them for your verifiable badge.
What you will be able to do
- Engineer detection logic and data ingestion pipelines rather than tuning rules somebody else wrote.
- Design a Conditional Access policy set, a PIM model and a tiered admin structure – and run the break-glass path.
- Build a risk-based vulnerability programme with SLAs, exception handling and reporting that survives an executive audience.
- Harden a cloud estate with CSPM, Azure Policy and a landing zone that scales.
- Run a structured risk assessment using STRIDE and FAIR, and keep a risk register written properly.
- Secure an AI deployment: Copilot pre-flight hardening, agent identity and tool allow-lists, and AI telemetry routed into the SIEM.
The curriculum – 14 modules, 28 classes
01Fundamentals – an Engineer’s Lens
Frameworks as engineering blueprints: NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK, CIS Controls and Zero Trust, and where each control sits.
02SIEM & SOAR Engineering
Ingestion design, retention and cost, detection rules from threat hypotheses, KQL across every source, and SOAR playbook design.
03Identity & Access Management Engineering
Entra ID architecture, hybrid identity, Conditional Access engineering, PIM, identity threat detection, and AD tiering.
04Threat Intelligence – Operational & Strategic
CTI into detection engineering, ATT&CK coverage gaps, platform integration, and briefings in business-risk language.
05Endpoint Security Engineering
EDR architecture across Windows, Linux, macOS and mobile, ASR, policy design, advanced hunting and live response.
06Vulnerability Management Engineering
Scanner architecture, risk-based prioritisation with CVSS, EPSS and asset criticality, governance and reporting.
07Compliance Management & Security Controls
ISO 27001 Annex A, NIST CSF 2.0, CIS v8, Cyber Essentials Plus, Purview and Intune compliance design.
08Email Security Engineering
SPF, DKIM and DMARC architecture, Defender for Office 365 policy, BEC investigation, simulation and quarantine governance.
09Incident Management & Response Engineering
PICERL at depth, playbooks for ransomware, phishing, privilege escalation and insider threat, and evidence handling.
10Network Security Engineering
Segmentation and trust zones, ZTNA, firewall and cloud network policy, C2 detection and DNS security.
11Cloud Security Engineering
CSPM at scale, CIS hardening, cloud-native detection and response, and mapping Azure controls to AWS and GCP.
12Risk Assessment & Recommendations Reporting
FAIR, STRIDE and PASTA, the risk register, and the recommendations report and investment case.
13AI Security Engineering
The four-part AI attack surface – data, prompt, actions and identity – Copilot pre-flight hardening and agent security.
14Configuration Practice Sessions
Three build sessions: identity, detection and response, cloud, network and email – evidenced against CIS and NIST CSF.
What is included
- Live, tutor-led teaching
- Every session recorded
- Hands-on labs in your own tenant
- Six months’ lab access after you finish
- Assignments marked by your tutor
- CV rewrite and LinkedIn optimisation
- Mock interviews
- Job feed while you are registered
- Verifiable certification badge
- Support after you are placed
What is not included
- Microsoft licence or Azure consumption costs in your own tenant. The labs are designed to run on trial and free-tier services wherever possible.
- Third-party examination fees, such as Microsoft certification exams.
- Your own equipment and internet connection.
Certification
To earn the MCW Certified Blue Team Engineer badge you attend at least 80% of classes and pass every assignment, each handed in by the final class. Everyone who completes the classes also receives a Certificate of Course Completion, which confirms the programme and the hours you attended. The badge is MyCyberWay’s own verifiable credential. It is not a regulated or accredited qualification, and it is not a Microsoft certification.
Paying
The price here is the full programme fee, paid in full at checkout. To spread the cost, choose PayPal at checkout: PayPal may offer Pay Later, subject to its own checks.
What happens after you buy
- You get an order confirmation by emailStraight away.
- We agree your start date and scheduleClasses run 2–3 times a week, arranged around your job.
- Your learning portal opensSign in with your MyCyberWay account. Once you are in your batch, your classes, Teams links, recordings, labs and quizzes are all in the learning portal.
- Your tutor gets your labs ready with youSetup guidance for your Azure and Defender tenants comes before the modules that need them.
We do not guarantee employment, a particular salary, or a pass in any third-party exam. Outcomes depend on your own effort, your background and the job market – what we can promise is the teaching, the feedback and the support described above.
Free learning resources
A few free, official links to start on now. Links to other sites open in a new tab.
A feel for the job
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 (opens in a new tab)nist.govGovern, identify, protect, detect, respond, recover: the common language of security.
- CIS Critical Security Controls (opens in a new tab)cisecurity.orgA prioritised set of controls, mapped to real attacks.
- Microsoft Zero Trust guidance (opens in a new tab)learn.microsoft.comMicrosoft's design guidance for zero trust, pillar by pillar.
When you enrol
The full library for this programme, section by section and chosen by your tutors, is waiting in the learning portal, alongside your classes.
Questions people ask first
Anything else, ask us. A person replies.
How is this different from Blue Team Specialist?
Specialist teaches you to investigate – to take one incident and own it end to end. Engineer teaches you to build – to configure the controls, engineer the detections and stand behind the settings you chose. A Specialist answers “what happened?”. An Engineer answers “what should be switched on, configured how, and how do we prove it works?”.
Do I need to have done Analyst or Specialist first?
No. This programme assumes technical competence, not prior MyCyberWay study – plenty of students come straight in from infrastructure, cloud or network engineering. If you have done one of the others, nothing is repeated, and some modules may be shortened, which we agree with you beforehand.
Is this an introductory course?
No, and it will be uncomfortable if you treat it as one. It assumes you are already technically capable and focuses on building, configuring, detecting and designing at enterprise level from the first class.
What are the configuration practice sessions, exactly?
Three build sessions at the end of the programme, in your own Azure and Defender tenants. You are given a requirement – the way it would arrive as a ticket – and you configure it yourself: identity in the first, detection and response in the second, and cloud, network and email in the third. Each ends with you evidencing the build against CIS and NIST CSF and walking your tutor through every decision. The resulting configuration pack is required for the badge.
Is the security architecture workshop included?
It is a separate two-day add-on – 3 classes, £165 – rather than part of the core price. The programme trains security engineers, and most engineering roles do not ask for a board-level architecture in the first couple of years. Heading towards consultancy or an architect title? Take it: you design a full target-state architecture for a realistic client and defend it to a simulated board. Say so on the fit call and we will plan it in.


