🛡️ Cybersecurity Threats, defense, and response — the blue-team core.
0/12 🎣 Phishing Analysis Dissect a real-world phishing email and learn the tells. +120 XP · +60 🪙 🚨 Incident Response Work an incident from detection to recovery using the NIST lifecycle. +150 XP · +75 🪙 📊 SIEM Basics Understand what a SIEM does and how to read its signals. +130 XP · +65 🪙 🔎 Vulnerability Management Run the vulnerability management loop and prioritize what matters. +140 XP · +70 🪙 🕵️ Threat Hunting Hunt proactively for threats that slipped past your alerts. +170 XP · +85 🪙 🦠 Malware Analysis Safely triage a suspicious file and classify what it does. +180 XP · +90 🪙 🔑 Passwords & MFA Why passwords fail, and what actually stops account takeover. +110 XP · +55 🪙 🔒 Ransomware Defense How ransomware works and the layered defenses that beat it. +160 XP · +80 🪙 🛡️ Zero Trust Never trust, always verify — the modern security model. +140 XP · +70 🪙 🎭 Social Engineering Hacking the human: how manipulation works and how to resist it. +130 XP · +65 🪙 🔐 Encryption Basics How encryption protects data at rest and in transit. +130 XP · +65 🪙 🥷 Penetration Testing Thinking like an attacker to find holes before they do. +170 XP · +85 🪙
🔌 Networking How packets move, and how to shape and secure them.
0/11 🏷️ VLANs Segment a network with VLANs and understand why it matters. +110 XP · +55 🪙 🗺️ Routing Follow a packet across networks and understand routing decisions. +130 XP · +65 🪙 🔀 Switching Learn how switches learn, forward, and avoid loops. +120 XP · +60 🪙 🧱 Firewalls Write firewall rules that follow least-privilege. +140 XP · +70 🪙 🔐 VPNs Understand VPN tunnels, and why a VPN is not a force field. +130 XP · +65 🪙 📶 Wireless Design Design a Wi-Fi network that is fast and secure. +120 XP · +60 🪙 🌐 DNS Deep Dive The internet's phonebook — and a favorite attacker target. +130 XP · +65 🪙 📚 TCP/IP Model The layered model that makes the internet work. +120 XP · +60 🪙 ⚖️ Load Balancing Spreading traffic so no single server melts down. +130 XP · +65 🪙 🔢 IPv6 Essentials The address space that replaces the exhausted IPv4. +120 XP · +60 🪙 📈 Network Monitoring You can't fix what you can't see — visibility into your network. +130 XP · +65 🪙
☁️ Cloud & M365 AWS, Azure, Microsoft 365, and identity.
0/10 🟧 AWS Fundamentals Get oriented in AWS: regions, IAM, and the shared responsibility model. +150 XP · +75 🪙 🔷 Azure Fundamentals Navigate Azure: subscriptions, resource groups, and RBAC. +150 XP · +75 🪙 📧 Microsoft 365 Secure a Microsoft 365 tenant the way an MSP does. +130 XP · +65 🪙 🪪 Entra ID Master identity with Entra ID — the new perimeter. +140 XP · +70 🪙 🛡️ Cloud Security Tie it together: cloud security posture and common pitfalls. +170 XP · +85 🪙 📦 Containers & Docker Package once, run anywhere — the container revolution. +150 XP · +75 🪙 ⚡ Serverless & Edge Run code without managing servers — like this very platform. +150 XP · +75 🪙 🏗️ Infrastructure as Code Define your infrastructure in files you can version and review. +150 XP · +75 🪙 💰 Cloud Cost Management The cloud is rented — unmanaged, the bill surprises you. +130 XP · +65 🪙 🔄 Cloud Backup & DR Resilience in the cloud: backups, regions, and recovery. +150 XP · +75 🪙
🧰 MSP Operations Run the business: onboarding, docs, backups, tickets.
0/10 🤝 Client Onboarding Onboard a new client cleanly so nothing falls through the cracks. +100 XP · +50 🪙 📚 Documentation Build documentation that survives staff turnover. +100 XP · +50 🪙 💾 Backup Validation Validate backups so you actually have them when it counts. +120 XP · +60 🪙 🎫 Ticketing Run a ticket queue that clients trust. +100 XP · +50 🪙 🗂️ Asset Management Track every asset so nothing is unmanaged or unpatched. +110 XP · +55 🪙 📜 SLAs & Expectations Setting clear service expectations clients can count on. +110 XP · +55 🪙 🩹 Patch Management Keeping every system current without breaking everything. +120 XP · +60 🪙 🤝 Vendor Management Third parties are part of your attack surface and your service. +110 XP · +55 🪙 ⚖️ Compliance Basics Helping clients meet the rules that apply to their industry. +130 XP · +65 🪙 🎯 vCIO & Strategy Rising from fixing problems to guiding client technology strategy. +140 XP · +70 🪙
💻 Developer HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, and APIs.
0/10 📄 HTML Write semantic, accessible HTML from scratch. +90 XP · +45 🪙 🎨 CSS Style with modern CSS: the box model, Flexbox, and Grid. +90 XP · +45 🪙 ⚡ JavaScript Make pages interactive with JavaScript fundamentals. +120 XP · +60 🪙 🐍 Python Automate tasks with Python — the IT pro’s power tool. +130 XP · +65 🪙 🔌 APIs Consume and reason about REST APIs. +140 XP · +70 🪙 🌿 Git & Version Control Track every change, collaborate safely, never lose work. +120 XP · +60 🪙 🐞 Debugging Skills The systematic art of finding why code misbehaves. +120 XP · +60 🪙 🗄️ SQL & Databases Asking questions of data — the universal data language. +130 XP · +65 🪙 ✅ Testing & QA Catching bugs before your users do. +120 XP · +60 🪙 ⌨️ Command Line Power The terminal: faster, scriptable, and everywhere in IT. +110 XP · +55 🪙
🤖 AI & Automation Prompting, automation, and workflow building.
0/6 💬 Prompt Engineering Write prompts that get reliable results from AI models. +110 XP · +55 🪙 ⚙️ AI Automation Use AI to automate real work without losing control. +130 XP · +65 🪙 🔄 Workflow Automation Design an end-to-end automated business workflow. +140 XP · +70 🪙 🧠 How LLMs Work What's actually happening inside an AI language model. +130 XP · +65 🪙 🔎 RAG & AI Search Grounding AI in your own data for accurate, current answers. +150 XP · +75 🪙 🤖 AI Agents AI that doesn't just answer — it takes actions toward a goal. +160 XP · +80 🪙