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Real career transformations
"I spoke with a college friend that went through the Level Effect training and successfully switched from nursing to cybersecurity... The weeks covering ELK really gave me a leg up in my SOC position... I aced all the interviews and was hired within two days."
"This is the third security 'bootcamp' I've taken and by far the best experience I've had. I chose to take this course because it has a heavy emphasis on Windows and defense techniques which I could directly apply to my day-to-day work. I would HIGHLY recommend taking this course if you are new in cybersecurity industry or are looking to get started."
"I saw Level Effect's CDA program a lot like a hands-on lab course from a university, and even then the experience topped that. I've heard alumni compare the course to that of an apprenticeship, and I'd have to agree that is what it resembles most."
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Security Operations
SOC100 Series
- Zero to SOC ready in 5 courses
- Pay-what-you-can pricing model
- 3-week Virtual SOC with real incidents
- All payments credit toward CDA program
CDA Program
- 5 weeks in our Virtual SOC environment
- Work real tickets, write actual reports
- From help desk → SOC analyst ready
- Includes 2 CDCP attempts + 59 Purdue BSc Degree credits
Alerts to Adversaries
- Advance from Tier 1 to Senior Analyst
- Taught by Jonathan Johnson from Huntress
- Small group intensive (20 students max)
- 4 full days of advanced threat correlation
CDA Live
- Includes Alerts to Adversaries course ($1250 value)
- Includes Practical AI for Security ($149 value)
- Live instruction 4 nights/week with Q&A
- Real-time incident response challenges
- Personalized feedback and walkthroughs
CDCP Certification Exam
- 1-week practical exam (zero multiple choice)
- Analyze real malware, hunt actual threats
- Manually reviewed by our instructors
- The cert that proves you can do the job
Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting
DE&TH: Windows
- Windows internals for detection engineering
- Build production-ready detection rules
- Memory forensics + advanced artifacts
- Move beyond alerts to creating detections
DE1 Certification Exam
- Practical detection engineering exam
- Build real detection rules under pressure
- Analyze Windows artifacts and logs
- Prove your detection engineering skills
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Security
Applied Data Science
- Python fundamentals included
- Build data tools for security analysis
- Machine learning for threat detection
- Real security datasets and problems
Practical AI for Security
- Augment SOC skills without the hype
- Practical AI for faster incident triage
- Trust but verify methodology
- Hands-on vulnerable MCP challenges
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