This is a weekly newsletter & blog post of Level Effect activity meant to inform and update you on what we’re up to! Thank you for tuning in. 📺

Table of Contents

• 1. Brand

  • On-Demand Certification - CDCP

  • The GOLD CDCP

  • People’s Choice for Best Workshop at DEATHCon 2024

  • Course Bundles! (Reminder - sale ends Dec 9th!)

• 2. Content

  • CDA Winter 2025

  • SOC100-1 Class 14 and 15

• 3. Community

  • CDA Fall 2024

• 4. Tools

• 5. Takeaway This Week

Hello! 👋 

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving last week in the US and got some downtime! Back to the studies now. ✏️

1. Brand

On-Demand Certification - CDCP

This is a huge moment for Level Effect. Since 2020 we’ve only been able to offer the CDCP on our previous learning platform as a very manually set up process for Live students.

But not anymore.

We’re proud to finally release the Cyber Defense Certified Professional (CDCP) to anyone to take at any time! This is an entirely practical exam. There are no multiple choice questions at all. It’s been touted by our alumni as amongst the challenging certifications to overcome, and we can’t wait to see what the general community makes of it.

The CDCP launches today taking advantage of our current BF pricing at 20% off for single attempts. $249 down to $199.

Note that purchasing CDA (which is currently on sale for $399…) comes with two vouchers included.

More info on the CDCP page itself here:

The GOLD CDCP

There is a special accolade for the CDCP.

Students that complete the CDCP the FIRST time taking it, and complete it at an exceeding level will be awarded this variant. There are only a couple dozen holding this badge of honor to date.

What does exceeding mean? It means you demonstrated mastery of the expectations of the certification. You have the ability to not only deliver on objectives to pass the exam, but you have the ability to correlate various indicators and findings to provide unique or highly valuable intelligence on your research. You can also communicate it clearly and concisely using best practices in both writing and industry terms and definitions, while utilizing models, flow charts, and imagery in an effective manner.

Will you be the next one to conquer it?

People’s Choice for Best Workshop at DEATHCon 2024

Big shoutout to Greg Ake, Co-Founder and Instructor at Level Effect for earning this huge achievement amongst a competition of training offerings!

Course Bundles! (Reminder - sale ends Dec 9th!)

They’re here! https://training.leveleffect.com with additional discounts that stack with the current Black Friday pricing! 🔥

REMINDER - Any package with CDA can also transfer 59 credits to a Bachelor’s of Science at Purdue Global!

2. Content

CDA Winter 2025

We’ve made some updates to the start date by 2 weeks and a little tweak on the lesson structure. You’ll see a lot more Log Analytics now in the course per student demand and a few other updates! Look out next week for more news on this front.

SOC100-1 Class 14 and 15

We covered group policy to prevent PowerShell scripting amongst other cool things in the Windows Enterprise side of things! We also finally got into the start of Career Prep 1 with a focus on taking steps to get started on networking, and walkthroughs of portfolio building using weebly and snapps!

3. Community

CDA Fall 2024

We want to celebrate and recognize the CDA Fall 2024 cohort for completing the course last Thursday! We will provide a welcome to them later this week after reviewing their final VSOC submissions. Here’s a shoutout in the meantime from one of the now alumni! 😎

Couple other mentions going on too! Malanka just knocked out their Network+ Certification! Big congrst! A shoutout from Randall, and looks like XerroKool is quick to work on their portfolio off Sunday’s SOC100 stream!

4. Tools

As we come across recommended tools or guides or have them shared to us, we’ll start adding them to the newsletter/blog here on out!

• https://www.cybersecuritycloudexpo.com/global/ not so much a tool but a recommendation from Calvin for those in London worth checking out on Feb 5 and 6!

• https://awseye.com/ is a tool that provides insights into AWS accounts by identifying resources such as S3 buckets, SQS queues, CloudFront distributions, and Lambda

• https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1h0z37a/the_reality_of_fulltime_bug_bounty_hunting/ also not so much a tool but a really interesting read on some bug bounty hunting analysis and takes behind the scene…

5. Takeaway This Week

See you next week!

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