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Breaking Into Cyber Beginner · Free

Leave with a one-page plan for your cybersecurity career: which roles fit, which certifications matter and when, and how to show your work. Free, about 80 minutes, no tech experience needed.

Intro to Cybersecurity Beginner · Free

Learn how security really works, from recon and scanning to logs and incident response, with hands-on exercises in your own lab.

Home Lab Setup Beginner · Free

Build your own cybersecurity lab at home and practice scanning, monitoring, and defense on machines you control. Free, step by step, no expensive hardware: a computer with 8 GB RAM and 50 GB of free disk is enough.

Cover6 Breaking Into Cyber Challenge Beginner · Free

Prove what you learned on the Breaking Into Cyber track: a 60-question exam in 90 minutes, a hands-on practical in your own lab, and a one-hour written follow-up. Free and tough by design.

Cover6: First Watch Free

It’s 4:47 on a Friday and the registrar can’t reach student records. You’re the analyst on duty. A free, guided SOC investigation with 7 days of lab access and your own Splunk login. No credit card.

SOC Analyst Prep Labs $249

Videos and practice questions won't carry you through a SOC interview. Hands-on proof will.

Incident Response Intermediate · $399

Most analysts can close an alert. Fewer can lead the response when it turns out to be real.

Cover6 IR Challenge Advanced · $299

A résumé says you can lead an investigation. This proves it. Work a multi-stage intrusion alone in Splunk on a 72-hour clock. Answer 60 questions only your incident can answer, write the incident report, then defend it in writing.

Cover6: First Shell Free

Land your first shell, six different ways, in a private lab with a Kali workspace that runs in your browser. Free: a 24-hour lab window plus one free re-run, nothing to install.

Pentester Prep Labs $299

Certs get you the interview. Hands-on proof gets you the job. Run a full internal pentest on your own private five-machine Active Directory range, from first foothold to Domain Admin to the written report.

Advanced Penetration Testing Advanced · $399

Getting a shell is the easy part. The job is turning one foothold into domain admin without breaking anything, then showing the client exactly how to close the path. You do that here, in your own private Active Directory lab.

Cover6 Pentest Challenge Coming soon

A private fictional AD pentest challenge with 72 hours, 48 active lab hours, 14 CPE, and a verified Challenge Passed result.

GRC Analyst Prep Beginner · Free

Do the work a GRC analyst is handed and walk away with a finished GRC Binder you can show in an interview: risk register, policy set, gap assessment, POA&M, and board brief. Free, with AI-assisted feedback on every deliverable.

RMF & ATO Intermediate · $249

It’s April 2027. Odapeeka State University has just taken on a DoD system, and you’re its Information System Security Officer. CGRC exam prep included, 26 CPE hours.

Security Control Assessor Intermediate · $499

Reading an assessment procedure is the easy part. Writing a finding that holds up when the system owner pushes back is the job.

Cover6 GRC Challenge $299

A résumé says you can assess controls. This proves it. Assess a system you have never seen, from its evidence alone, on a 72-hour clock.

Cloud Foundations Beginner · Free

Make a real cloud decision for a university hit by ransomware: where its file service should live, how to protect it, what it costs, and who owns what. Free, no cloud account or card needed. Earn Cover6 Cloud Security I with 16 CPE hours.

Cloud Security Engineer Prep Intermediate · Coming soon

Fix over-privileged access and a leaked key, run the metadata/SSRF credential-theft chain, and build a detection from real audit logs, all in your own isolated lab. Finish with a cloud security assessment report for your Chrysalus profile.

Cloud Security Architect & DevSecOps Advanced · $399

Securing a cloud someone else built is cleanup. Designing one that's secure from the first commit is architecture.

Cover6 Cloud Challenge Advanced · $299

A résumé says you can secure a cloud. This proves it. Take over a poorly secured cloud environment alone on a 72-hour clock.

Security Manager Prep Intermediate · Free

Step into the security manager's chair and leave with a Three-Year Security Program Plan: strategy, team, budget, risk appetite, audits, incident command, and board reporting. Free, with AI-assisted feedback on every deliverable.

CISO Prep Intermediate · $349

Boards don't want a control list. They want cyber risk in plain terms and in dollars, from someone who can deliver both.

vCISO Mastery Advanced · $995

One CISO job is hard enough. A vCISO runs several at once: different clients, different crises, different budgets, and a practice to keep running.

Cover6 vCISO Challenge Advanced · $499

Plenty of people can talk about advising a board. This proves you can do it. Take one of 12 seeded client organizations from raw evidence to a board packet in 72 hours, then hold your advice through a written board session.

DFIR Foundations Coming soon

The free first course on the Cover6 DFIR path. It is coming soon.

Digital Forensics Intermediate · Coming soon

Work three forensic cases end to end, from chain of custody and acquisition to a timeline and a report that holds up, then work a fourth alone as your capstone. Hands-on labs, 90 days of lab access, CySA+ exam prep and 25 CPE hours.

DFIR III Coming soon

Still being built.

Cover6 DFIR Challenge Coming soon

Still being built.

AI in Cybersecurity Beginner · Free

Learn how attackers and defenders use AI, how to keep sensitive data out of the wrong AI tool, and how to check an AI answer before you act on it. Free, no paid tools or lab needed, with a certificate worth 5 CPE hours.

AI Security Intermediate · Coming soon

Work as the AI red team for a fictional university. Attack its student-help assistant in your own private lab, find your attacks in the logs, add safeguards, and prove they work.

AI III Coming soon

Still being built.

Cover6 AI Challenge Coming soon

Still being built.