Cover6 Academy

Cybersecurity training, taught by practitioners.

Six career paths, each a clear route from your first course to advanced work. The first course on every path is free — no card required and no sales call.

Free foundationsStart without a card or a call
6 career pathsFive aligned with DoD 8140 work roles
Self-pacedLearn on your schedule
Practitioner-builtBuilt around useful work
Career Paths

Six career paths. Six free starts.

Pick the role you want. The first course on every path is free: the full course, hands-on work, and a certificate with CPE hours when you finish.

Breaking Into Cyber

Your start for every role

Level 1 · Free

Breaking Into Cyber: Your Roadmap to a Cybersecurity Career

Find out if cyber is for you, then build the fundamentals and a lab of your own.

Start Free
Level 2
Level 3
Challenge
Electives

PECB certification training (sold separately): Cybersecurity Foundation

SOC Analyst

DoD 8140: 511 Cyber Defense Analyst

Level 1 · Free

Cover6: First Watch — Your First Shift as a SOC Analyst

7 days in a live SOC lab, working real alerts.

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Level 2
Level 3
Challenge
Electives

PECB certification training (sold separately): Certified Incident Responder

GRC & Compliance

DoD 8140: 612 Security Control Assessor

Level 1 · Free

GRC Analyst Prep

Ten real GRC deliverables, with AI-assisted feedback on every one.

Start Free
Level 2
Level 3
Challenge
Electives

PECB certification training (sold separately): ISO/IEC 27001 Foundation · ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer · ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor · ISO/IEC 27005 Risk Manager · ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer · ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Auditor

Aligned with DoD 8140 (DCWF) work roles. Alignment is not DoD approval; your organization decides qualification.

Still not sure where to start? Walk the Cybersecurity Career Path first. It maps the roles before you pick a path.

The Catalog

Every course, filtered your way.

Filter by career path, what you're studying for, how far along you are, or what you can spend. Results update instantly.

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Two Ways In

Teach it, or ask for it.

The catalog grows because people tell us what's missing — and because practitioners bring what they know.

Teach with Cover6

You've run the tooling, worked the incidents, sat for the exam. Bring the course and you earn on every enrollment — we settle the split before you record a single lesson. Platform, students, and checkout are on us.

Don’t see what you need?

Tell us the cert, the skill, or the job you're studying for. Requests decide what we build next — and we'll email you when it lands.

Group Training

Building a team, not just a career?

We run cohort training, private labs, and org-wide exam prep — for security teams, universities, and workforce programs.

Ask about group pricing
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