We’ve Got Your 6.
Since 2012. 9,900+ members. 133 events. That’s not a pitch — that’s the record.
The skills, the network, and the backing to win in cybersecurity — whether you’re protecting an organization or building a career.
Built by a veteran. Driven by community.
Tyrone E. Wilson spent a career in Army cyber — USCYBERCOM, JTF-GNO, DOE, and RCERT-SWA in Iraq — before founding Cover6 Solutions in 2013. A year earlier, he’d started running free meetups for people trying to find a way into the field.
Both are still running. Cover6 delivers security work across enterprise, nonprofit, higher education, and the defense industrial base. The community that started it all still meets, still free, still open to anyone who shows up.
Every engagement is founder-led, with hands-on delivery at every level — not a name on a proposal and a stranger on the call.
Carnegie Mellon CISO Executive Certificate. Certifications earned include CySA+, Security+, and Network+. Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, certified by SBA VetCert.
“Tyrone guides you every step of the way and puts you into the shoes of Blue and Red Teamers — network monitoring, incident tracking and response, expert-level training with tools like Security Onion, Wireshark and Splunk.”
Protect the mission. Open the door.
From a single scoped test to running your entire security program.
Vulnerability Assessment
Find the gaps before someone else does. Authenticated and unauthenticated scanning across your environment, with retesting to prove the fix actually landed.
Network Penetration Testing
External and internal testing run the way an attacker would run it — not a scan with a report stapled to the front.
Web App Penetration Testing
OWASP-aligned testing of the applications your business actually runs on. Business logic, auth, and injection flaws a scanner will never find.
Cybersecurity Training
Live and self-paced training that builds job-ready skill — for teams standing up capability and individuals breaking in.
Tabletop Exercises
Run the incident before the incident runs you. Facilitated scenarios with a written after-action your assessor will accept.
OSINT & Reputation Intelligence
See what the internet already knows about your people, your infrastructure, and your brand — before an adversary uses it.
CMMC Consulting
Level 2 readiness, NIST 800-171 alignment, SSP and POA&M development, and evidence packaging that survives an assessor.
AI Security & Governance
Policy, risk assessment, and controls for the AI your organization is already using — whether or not anyone approved it.
Virtual CISO
Executive security leadership on demand. Program development, risk management, and board-level reporting without a full-time hire.
Built to carry a federal contract.
SDVOSB-certified, SAM.gov registered, operator-led. The credentials a contracting officer looks for, in one place.
Cover6 Solutions delivers senior-level cybersecurity program leadership — RMF oversight, risk governance, and executive advisory — built for the way federal civilian and defense missions actually operate.
Engagements delivered.
Across hospitality, legal nonprofits, IoT and hardware manufacturing, enterprise OEMs, higher education, and defense contractors preparing for CMMC Level 2 — we’ve stood up security programs, sat in the Acting CISO seat, tested web applications against OWASP, and run multi-device assessments with full retest. Commercial work, delivered founder-led, with the same rigor a federal mission demands.
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“Tyrone is genuinely interested in helping you build experience. All you need to do is put in the work.”
“9,900+ members — career changers, students, SOC analysts, pentesters, and CISOs, all under one roof.”
Your cybersecurity career, verified.
Candidates don’t apply — they get found. Skills, certifications, and community contribution roll into one verified profile employers can search.
Three roads in. Take the one that fits where you actually are.
Every roadmap is free to read and leads straight into the course that follows it. Start at your real experience level — not where you think you’re supposed to be.
Still deciding whether cyber is even for you? Start with Find Your Path in Cybersecurity →
Breaking Into Cyber
The complete 2026 roadmap — what to learn, in what order, and what gets you hired.
Intro to Cybersecurity
Foundations that hold up — the concepts, the vocabulary, and the hands-on work the certs assume you already know.
SOC Analyst
The defender track — what the work looks like day to day, what you need to prove, and how to get reps before anyone hires you.
Train on real tools. Test like it’s exam day.
Cover6: First Watch
Live SOC practice on real telemetry — monitoring, triage, and incident response in Splunk, Security Onion, and the rest of the defender stack.
Exam Prep + Study Guides
Practice exams, study guides, and how-to-pass breakdowns for CompTIA, (ISC)², ISACA, Microsoft, PMI and more — written to the real cut scores.
Start without spending a dollar
Breaking Into Cyber, Intro to Cyber, and Home Lab Setup — full courses, free, no catch.
It started with a room full of people who wanted in.
Since 2012 we’ve run free meetups, hands-on workshops, and study sessions for anyone trying to break into cybersecurity or level up in it. No gatekeeping, no cover charge.
133 events and counting
Monthly sessions on tooling, certs, career moves, and whatever the room needs that month. Free to attend, in person and online.
9,900+ strong
Analysts, students, career changers, and veterans — from first-timers to people running security programs.
800+ OG Alumni
The people who invested early and came up through the workshops. Many are hiring now — and they hire from here.
Whatever side you’re on — we’ve got your 6.
Job openings, new courses, free workshops, and what’s working right now in cyber careers — straight to your inbox.
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