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Every module ships with a teacher guide, student worksheet, scenarios packet, quiz, answer key, and an in-browser presenter. Free preview available on the orientation modules of every track.
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The defender's mental model of a network: IPs, ports, protocols, and packet captures, taught with diagrams and a guided walk-through.
60 min · beginner
View module ->From 'wifi just works' to seeing the actual packets. Students leave this unit able to read a network diagram, run ping/traceroute/nslookup, and walk a Wireshark capture line by line.
240 min · foundational
View module ->Hashing, symmetric, asymmetric, signatures, certificates, and TLS - taught at the level a defender actually needs. No math degree required.
240 min · foundational
Hardening 101. Students harden a real Windows VM and a real Linux VM, audit accounts, configure a host firewall, and walk away with a defender's mindset.
240 min · foundational
View module ->Reset the lab. Re-establish the rules. Diagnose where the class is in fact and where the class thinks it is. Ship out of Day 1 with a working, segmented, validated cyber range.
240 min · intermediate
View module ->VLANs, segmentation, NAT, firewall rule design, IDS/IPS concepts, VPN, and zero trust at the level a defender actually uses. Students design and defend a segmented network.
300 min · intermediate
View module ->Build a complete OSINT picture of a fictional company without ever sending them a packet. Then validate your sources, document your methodology, and respect the line.
240 min · intermediate
View module ->From recon to a defensible list of weaknesses with severity, evidence, and proof. Nmap, Nessus/OpenVAS, banner grabbing, service enumeration, and the discipline of validating every finding.
360 min · intermediate
View module ->Where the ethics meet the keyboard. Authorized exploitation in the lab range only: Metasploit basics, password attacks against teacher-issued hash sets, post-exploitation concepts, and the discipline of stopping at proof-of-concept.
360 min · advanced
View module ->The skill that decides who runs the program. Risk math, frameworks (NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS), and the regulations students will actually meet at work (HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, FERPA, GDPR/CCPA).
240 min · intermediate
View module ->Resume, LinkedIn, GitHub, certs, mock interviews, internship pipeline. The unit that turns a high-school cyber program into a hireable young professional.
240 min · intermediate
View module ->Put it all together. Each student ships a working AI tool that solves a real problem in their life: a local-LLM study buddy, a prompt-library product, a RAG over their notes, or an image-gen workflow. Disclose, verify, contribute - graded for real.
240 min · applied
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