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About CyberGeek Academy
Making cybersecurity learning accessible
CyberGeek Academy is an accessible cybersecurity learning initiative by CyberGeek Podcast. We created it to help students, beginners, IT professionals and career switchers explore cybersecurity through clear, structured learning.
Our aim is to make foundational knowledge easier to access, with useful lessons and opportunities to test your understanding at your own pace.
Our Vision
Grow a community-driven learning platform where curiosity becomes knowledge and knowledge develops into useful skills.
What We Offer
Structured courses, learning checkpoints, final assessments and course-completion certificates for eligible learners.
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We're in public beta. Learners, educators and security professionals are invited to share feedback and help improve the Academy.
Learn responsibly: Practise security techniques only on systems you own or are authorized to test. Course-completion certificates are not professional accreditations.
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Looking for the dedicated Linux, Networking and SOC environments? See the dedicated lab environments and their availability. Real command environments are still preparing for a secure beta launch; existing guided exercises below work now.
Standalone Practical Labs
Explore guided security investigations, separate from the short interactive exercises inside Fundamentals.
External Linux Command Lab · Development Preview
Real Linux commands inside an isolated, resumable Linux container. Sign in to begin once the independent Lab Engine is securely deployed. The session is free during beta, and practical marks are formative only.
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Challenge: change report.txt to mode 640 and create an evidence directory with mode 700. Your workspace persists between commands, but each submitted command starts a new shell.
Lab infrastructure must be provisioned and tested before activation. The existing in-course Linux simulator and standalone browser labs remain available.
Network Traffic Investigation · Isolated command lab (staging)
Use real Linux commands to investigate fictional offline network traffic in traffic.csv. Write your evidence-based findings to answers.txt, then request formative grading. No real networks, scans or customer data.
After launch, the workspace suspends after 10 minutes without commands or grading. A warning appears with two minutes remaining; files remain saved. You may resume without an overall learning deadline.
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This is a development preview until an independently secured Docker host and database migration are verified. Certificate eligibility is unchanged.
SOC Event Investigation · Isolated command lab (staging)
Investigate fictional authentication and email events in events.csv using real Linux commands. Write your evidence-based findings to answers.txt, then request formative grading. No real networks, scans or customer data.
After launch, the workspace suspends after 10 minutes without commands or grading. A warning appears with two minutes remaining; files remain saved. You may resume without an overall learning deadline.
Service is not yet connected.
This is a development preview until an independently secured Docker host and database migration are verified. Certificate eligibility is unchanged.
Level 1 · Beginner Investigations
Phishing Email Investigation
Examine email evidence and choose a safe reporting response.
Open practical labLinux File Permission Review
Review fictional file modes and recommend least-privilege improvements.
Open practical labCloud IAM Least-Privilege Review
Identify overly broad permissions in a simulated service policy.
Open practical labSOC Alert Triage
Correlate simulated sign-ins and mailbox changes. Signed-in learners can save graded attempts.
Open practical labThese labs are independent of course certificates. More levels will be introduced when their exercises are ready.
View all lab levelsFOUNDATION COURSE
Cyber Security Fundamentals
Embedded Fundamentals Practice
Course marking: theory 80%, four graded mini-labs 20%. Sign in to save lab marks.
Work through short interactive decision exercises directly inside selected lessons. Try CIA risk mapping, Zero Trust access decisions, network request tracing and incident response sequencing. Lesson 5 contains a graded Linux permissions sandbox with server-issued cases, and Lesson 7 includes a synthetic network evidence investigation. For independent, longer investigations, visit the separate Practical Labs section.
Course lessons and checkpoints
Review a checkpoint quiz after every three lessons. After completing the whole course, take a 20-question final exam. Log in to record completion.
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