The Cyber Academy


  The Cyber Academy is a progression of four courses designed to impart a strong foundation of offensive and defensive information security skills in 32 weeks of full-time study. These courses are powered by Cyber Security Global

Students work through 21 tasks (spending 1-2 weeks per task) online

in a private cloud environment with help, advice, and feedback from a knowledgeable mentor and extensive online learning resources.

Cyber Attack and Defense: Immediate Immersion

In this six-week "on-ramp" course, students will be working for a fictional US government agency whose responsibilities include both cyber defense and offensive cyber operations. After gaining some experience “thinking like an attacker, students investigate alerts by analyzing network traffic. We have designed this course to provide students with initial experience analyzing and understanding what alerts mean through realistic hands-on tasks.

Exploit a website and fix its vulnerabilities

Investigate suspicious behavior

Join our six-week "Immediate Immersion" course where you'll dive into cyber defense and offensive operations for a fictional US government agency. Gain hands-on experience in analyzing alerts and investigating suspicious behavior. Enroll now to kickstart your cybersecurity journey

Cyber Defender 1 and 2

The courses designed to impart a strong foundation of defensive information security skills in 14 weeks of study at 25 hours per week, preparing students for entry-level careers as security operations center analysts and digital forensics analysts.

Cyber Defender 1

  • Analyze malicious network traffic

  • Analyze a remote intrusion attempt

  • Investigate an incident using a SIEM

  • Compile indicators of compromise to guide forensic analysis

Cyber Defender 2

  • Examine a compromised host’s memory

  • Conduct a forensic disk examination

  • Close your investigation

  • Critique the response to a cyber incident

Deepen your understanding of the dark side of cybersecurity with Cyber Attack, where you'll delve deep into common offensive tasks. Equipped with real-life scenarios, expert mentorship, and immersive learning, prepare for a rewarding career protecting digital realms...by figuring out where to attack before the bad guys do.

Attack (Reverse Engineering and Exploitation)

This 15 week program, requiring 25 hours of work per week, will start students on the path to becoming penetration testers or offensive cyber operations professionals. Development of the program was funded, in part, by the United States Department of Defense, and the curriculum was designed in conjunction with DoD and industry experts.

  • Reverse engineer a suspicious file

  • Reverse engineer a complex suspicious file

  • Reverse engineer a still more complex suspicious file

  • Investigate hacker group

  • Exploit a server

  • Exploit a better protected computer

  • Improve off-the-shelf malware

  • Write your own shellcode payload

  • Spearphish a company

  • Hack a database and exfiltrate data

  • Hack a foreign intelligence service

Embark on a transformative journey with Cyber Defender 1 and 2, where you'll delve deep into defensive cybersecurity. Equipped with real-life tasks, expert mentorship, and immersive learning, prepare for a rewarding career safeguarding digital realms.