You can't defend what you've never attacked.
Cyber Defense Tactics teaches defenders to build their own tooling. You stand up the lab, build the detection stack, build the attacker, then spend the rest of the course using each one to break the others.
Become an expert in cyber defense by engineering your own tools.
You do not learn to defend by watching someone else defend. You learn it by building the lab, the detection stack, and the attacker, then using each one to break the others until you understand why it holds.
Every defensive certification on the market asks whether you can find it. This one asks whether you can build the thing that finds it, and defend why you built it that way.
Phase 1
Build the lab
A segmented lab of your own on Proxmox, with telemetry flowing from every host. Nobody else teaches the environment. You cannot defend what you cannot see.
Phase 2
Build the defender
An AI operations layer with real guardrails, a detection stack on top of Wazuh, and threat intel that arrives with context instead of a bare log line.
Phase 3
Build the attacker
Your own offensive toolkit and attacker infrastructure, inside your own isolated lab, pointed at targets you stood up yourself.
Phase 4
Run the loop
Attack your own stack. Find what did not fire. Fix the gap, author the detection, attack again. This is the engine, and it never runs out of material.
Phase 5
Govern what you built
Wrap NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001 around your own AI security stack, so you can say you built it and you can govern it.
Advanced
Delete the box in the middle
Detection and response running locally on the endpoint. Atomic rollback. Signed verdict gossip between peers. All of it still working with the central console switched off.
Every module gates on a build
No module unlocks until the last one produced a working artifact. You finish with infrastructure that is still running, not a completion percentage.
The exam is a build, not a quiz
You ship working defensive tooling under time pressure, it gets attacked by a test harness, and then you defend your design decisions out loud with your own code on the screen.
You derive the architecture before you are handed it
The advanced track was headed for a patent filing. We published it instead. You get the mechanism, the working code, and the parts that did not work.
The first cohort will be small on purpose
Modules are being built now. The waitlist sees the curriculum, the hardware spec, and founding cohort pricing before anyone else, and it is how we decide how many seats to open.
Start here. All of it is free.
Four reference hubs, no account, no paywall. Use them on their own or as the groundwork before you start building.