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Keep beginner courses free and develop affordable, practical pathways to advanced cybersecurity skills.
BEGINNER COURSES FREE · ADVANCED TRAINING PLANNED
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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.
Our Community
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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Standalone Practical Labs
Explore guided security investigations, separate from the short interactive exercises inside Fundamentals.
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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