How real IT and cybersecurity organisations are structured, the major career families (support, infrastructure, cloud, SOC, security engineering, GRC and more), MSPs vs enterprise, certifications that actually matter, and how to build a realistic career plan.
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Learn what a real IT & cybersecurity career actually looks like
Built for people with 0–3 years of experience who want to know what the job actually involves — not certification theory.
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The Path
Five sections, root to offer letter
Jump to any section below, or work through them in order.
Section 01
Careers in IT & Cybersecurity
Understand the industry, the roles, and the fundamentals everything else is built on.
0 / 3 modules
CPUs, RAM, storage, BIOS/UEFI, motherboards, virtualisation, Windows and Linux architecture, and file systems — plus three hands-on labs where you build a VM lab and install Windows and Linux yourself.
OSI and TCP/IP, IP addressing and subnetting, DNS, DHCP, NAT, ports, firewalls, VPNs, routing, switching, VLANs, and enterprise/cloud networking — plus 11 hands-on labs, five of them inside Wireshark predicting and inspecting real packets.
Section 02
Networking Fundamentals
The core platforms and infrastructure every IT role touches: identity, endpoints, Linux, and cloud.
0 / 5 modules
Domains, forests, OUs, users, groups, Group Policy, Kerberos, NTLM, LDAP, replication, FSMO roles, AD security, and hybrid identity with Microsoft Entra ID — plus 16 hands-on labs building a real AD lab from scratch.
Microsoft Entra ID, hybrid identity, Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, MFA, Conditional Access, licensing, and Microsoft 365 security and troubleshooting — plus 14 hands-on labs inside a real tenant.
Command line, permissions, services, SSH, logs, cron, Bash scripting, and enterprise Linux (AD integration, cloud, config management, containers) — plus 13 hands-on labs ending in a production incident simulation.
AWS, Azure and GCP core services side by side, cloud IAM, VPCs/VNets, security groups, storage, governance, and troubleshooting — plus a required hands-on lab deploying, breaking, and fixing a real cloud web server.
The CIA Triad, threat actors, malware, ransomware, phishing, insider threats, password attacks, social engineering, defence in depth, and Zero Trust — with 7 analyst-style labs and a capstone scenario that ties every prior module together.
Section 03
Authentication & MFA
Identity, access, security operations, and the day-to-day tools of a SOC and sysadmin.
0 / 8 modules
AAA, identity, password hashing/attacks, MFA, biometrics, FIDO2/passkeys, OAuth/OIDC, SAML, Kerberos, NTLM, LDAP, RADIUS, PKI and session security — split into 6 interactive lessons with animated protocol diagrams and hands-on labs.
Least privilege, RBAC/ABAC, provisioning and SCIM, SSO and federation, the Joiner-Mover-Leaver identity lifecycle, and how large enterprises architect identity across decades of technology — split into 6 interactive lessons with hands-on labs.
SIEM, EDR/XDR, MITRE ATT&CK and detection types, alert triage, log sources from Windows to cloud, and a full downloadable 12-lab investigation pack — from a single failed login to a multi-source capstone incident. Split into 6 interactive lessons.
Detection, investigation, containment, eradication and recovery, blameless post-incident reviews, regulatory reporting (GDPR/NIS2/SEC), and a full ransomware case study — plus a 10-inject live simulation exercise. Split into 6 interactive lessons.
REST, HTTP methods, JSON, headers, status codes, OAuth/JWT/mTLS authentication, Postman/curl/jq, API gateways, SOAP/GraphQL/webhooks, and real enterprise API troubleshooting — split into 6 interactive lessons with a full diagnostic capstone.
Reading and correlating logs, timestamps and clock drift, authentication and Windows/Linux logs, application/network/cloud logs, SIEM and log management, and a full multi-system incident capstone. Split into 6 interactive lessons.
Objects and the pipeline, variables/loops/functions, CSV and JSON bulk processing, REST APIs and Microsoft Graph, Active Directory and remoting, safe production automation, and PowerShell for cybersecurity investigations. Split into 6 interactive lessons with a final toolkit capstone.
A repeatable troubleshooting framework, systematic techniques like divide-and-conquer and layer-based thinking, the real command-line and observability tools you'll actually use, seven common scenarios worked end to end, professional practice around escalation and documentation, and seven hands-on labs plus a multi-system capstone. Split into 6 interactive lessons.
Section 04
Professional Communication
How you write, ticket, and build hands-on proof of your skills.
0 / 3 modules
Why communication is an operational skill, writing customer emails and incident updates, running structured bridge calls and escalations, talking precisely to engineers and specialist teams, writing Knowledge Base articles, executive and stakeholder communication, and reusable frameworks like SITUATION and SBAR. Split into 6 interactive lessons.
What a ticket is and why enterprises rely on ServiceNow, Jira and Zendesk; ITIL concepts, SLAs and how priority is really impact plus urgency; writing escalations and evidence that make ownership and timestamps count; root cause analysis and the Five Whys; major incidents, handover and closure; and a capstone ticket queue simulator triaging twelve mixed tickets. Split into 6 interactive lessons.
Design a segmented network behind pfSense, build a two-DC Active Directory domain with RBAC and Group Policy, add Linux, PKI, SQL Server/Oracle and Docker, centralise logging with Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel, run Kali Linux against deliberately vulnerable apps, harden the whole environment, and finish with an open-ended capstone build-and-incident challenge. Split into 6 interactive lessons.
Section 05
Getting Your First Job
Turning everything above into an actual offer.
0 / 1 modules
Writing a technical CV that survives ATS screening, optimising LinkedIn and GitHub, building a portfolio worth showing, applying strategically, recruiter and technical interview questions across every module in this course, troubleshooting and behavioural interviews, salary negotiation, and a final job-ready checklist. Split into 6 interactive lessons.