We’ve Got Your 6.
Cybersecurity support for the work in front of you. A clearer way into the career you want.
Whether you are protecting an organization or building a future in cybersecurity, start with the path that fits.
Built by a veteran. Driven by community.
Founded by Army cyber veteran Tyrone E. Wilson, Cover6 brings practical security work, useful learning, and an open community together in one place.
His perspective belongs here as proof of the work behind Cover6—not as the entire first impression. The mission is to help organizations protect what matters and help people build the skills to contribute.
“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.
Work built around the mission.
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.”
“Career changers, students, analysts, and security leaders learning in the same community.”
Build the proof behind your next move.
Chrysalus is the long-term connection between what you learn, what you practice, and how you show up in the cybersecurity community.
Start with a direction. Build useful work. Keep moving as the opportunity side of the platform develops.
Four 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.
Penetration Tester
The offensive track — how engagements really run, what you have to prove, and why the report matters more than the shell.
Start without spending a dollar.
Breaking Into Cyber
What to learn, in what order, and what gets you hired. Start here if you are coming from outside the industry.
Intro to Cyber
The concepts, the vocabulary, and the hands-on work every certification assumes you already have.
Home Lab Setup
Build somewhere to break things safely. Everything after this gets easier once you have one.
Free labs on live infrastructure.
Not walkthroughs. Real tooling, a real incident, and a window to work it — then the extended labs pick up where that window closes.
Cover6: First Watch
A live ransomware investigation at Odapeeka State University, worked in real Splunk and Security Onion. Free for seven days. When you want more reps than a week allows, SOC Analyst Prep Labs is the long version.
Cover6: First Shell
Recon to first access on a live target. Enroll and pick when your 24-hour window starts, so you use it when you are ready. Did not finish? Your first re-run is free. Pentester Prep Labs is where the volume lives.
Test like it’s exam day.
Practice exams, study guides, and how-to-pass breakdowns for CompTIA, (ISC)², ISACA, Microsoft, PMI and more — written to the real cut scores.
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.
Free meetups and hands-on sessions
Monthly sessions on tooling, certs, career moves, and whatever the room needs that month. Free to attend, in person and online.
A community built for progress
Analysts, students, career changers, and veterans — from first-timers to people running security programs.
A growing alumni network
The people who invested early and came up through the workshops. People carry the work forward in their own careers and communities.
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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