🛡️ Cyber training for every level
Level up your security knowledge
From your first Linux command to a CISSP sitting. Instructor-led training for secondary school students, undergraduates, career switchers and working professionals — start with no prior experience, finish job-ready.
- 100%
- Instructor-led
- 40+
- Hands-on labs
- 95%
- Pass guarantee
$ init academy-defense-matrix [SUCCESS] Core modules loaded. $ enroll --level beginner [INFO] No prior experience required. $ load --path "DFIR Mastery" [INFO] Provisioning 40+ hands-on labs… [SUCCESS] Lab environments ready. $ check --cert "CISSP" --cert "GIAC" [COMPLETED] Certification alignments verified. $ _
Every course maps to a certification employers hire against
- GIAC
- CISSP
- CISM
- CCSP
- OWASP
- NIST
- CIS Controls
- NERC CIP
Who it is for
Start where you are
The same instructors, the same labs, four different starting points. Nothing below assumes you have worked in security before.
Secondary school & first-timers
Your first look at how networks, operating systems and attackers actually work. Guided labs, plain language, no prior experience assumed.
Start with Security Essentials
Undergraduates
Turn a computing degree into a hireable skill set: real tooling, real incidents, and a named certification to sit before you graduate.
Pair a path with your semester
Career switchers
Coming from IT, support, networking or something else entirely. Begin on the foundations and work up to a specialism at your own pace.
Foundations → specialism → cert
Professionals & teams
Go deep on DFIR, cloud, AI security or industrial control systems — or put a whole team through a private cohort on your own stack.
Advanced tracks and corporate cohorts
Course catalog explorer
Select your training path
Four curated tracks. Each one is a sequence of instructor-led courses that starts at its entry level and ends at the certification you sit.
Mastering AI & Cloud Security
Applied ML for defence, LLM and RAG application security, offensive AI, DevSecOps automation and multi-cloud architecture.
6 courses · 1–2 months each
DFIR Mastery
Opens with Security Essentials, then threat intelligence, memory and disk forensics, malware reverse engineering and network hunting.
8 courses · 1–2 months each
Industrial Cyber Security Leadership
ICS/SCADA defence, NERC CIP compliance, GRC frameworks and running a security operations centre end to end.
10 courses · 1–2 months each
Career Accelerators
Offensive operations, hacker tools and incident handling, web application penetration testing and ethical hacking.
4 courses · 2 months each
Individual courses
Take a single course
Every course is instructor-led, one to two months long, and aligned to a named certification. The first three need no background in security.
Security Essentials
Core cyber security skills: network security, host defence, cryptography and modern access control. The usual first course.
Aligns with GIAC GSEC
Practical Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)
Collection techniques that need nothing but a browser: track assets, map an organisation's footprint and investigate leads legally.
Aligns with OSINT Analyst
GenAI and LLM Application Security
Prompt injection, data poisoning, insecure output handling and the vulnerabilities unique to large language models.
Aligns with OWASP Top 10 for LLMs
Hacker Tools, Techniques and Incident Handling
How attackers scan, exploit and pivot — and the containment, mitigation and incident handling practice that answers each step.
Aligns with GIAC GCIH
Cloud Native Security and DevSecOps Automation
Secure containers, Kubernetes clusters and infrastructure-as-code pipelines with automated scanning and compliance checks.
Aligns with GIAC GCLD / DevSecOps
Applied Data Science and AI/ML for Cybersecurity
Algorithms, regression, neural networks and predictive analytics tailored to automating defence.
Aligns with GIAC GAASE
Advanced Incident Response, Threat Hunting and Forensics
Investigate memory, filesystems and registry changes on compromised hosts; locate active attackers and persistence.
Aligns with GIAC GCFA
Reverse-Engineering Malware: Tools and Techniques
Assembly-level debugging, code decompilation and sandbox analysis of malicious executables, documents and scripts.
Aligns with GIAC GREM
ICS/SCADA Security Essentials
The architecture, protocols and vulnerabilities of industrial control systems and operational technology.
Aligns with GIAC GICSP
Schools & corporate training
Train a whole cohort
Private cohorts for schools, universities and security teams. Run against your own stack or ours, with scheduling, progress reporting and certification tracking included.
- Live instructors, never recorded playback
- Entry-level cohorts for schools and universities
- Labs on real enterprise environments
- CISSP, GIAC, CCSP and CISM alignment
- 95% first-sitting pass guarantee
- Progress reporting for teachers and managers
Your next step starts with the next cohort
Cohorts open monthly at every level. Pick a starting point, pick a start date, and bring a laptop.