248 topics, beginner to Tier 2+

Guardian Foundry now holds 248 training topics, covering the full road from a complete beginner to Tier 2+ SOC analyst work - and more is coming.

This includes the full Detection Engineering track and the CDETH certification, plus trials, challenges, and full DFIR report submissions.

If you haven’t checked it out yet… this month gives you a lot to work with.

First, a look at May

1. We did our first AMA on r/cybersecurity. Three of us were on the thread all day answering questions on getting hired, building security tooling, and where the field is heading. You can see the thread here still:
   🔗 r/cybersecurity Level Effect AMA

2. We dropped the full advanced Detection Engineering track and launched the CDETH certification (Certified Detection Engineer & Threat Hunter), our first credential. The DE&TH Campaign runs you through Snort, Sigma, threat hunting, detection tuning, CI/CD pipeline detection, and endpoint emulation against real malware.

3. We ran PHANTOM, our first Case File CTF with a live leaderboard. A real npm supply chain compromise, a full artifact pack, and real deliverables: IOCs, detection rules, a hunt query, and a complete incident report with instructor review on every submission. PHANTOM is now in the books. You can see the past event here:
   🔗 PHANTOM CTF Event and Leaderboard Listing

Congrats to the top 3 finishers! 🏆

1. daichizan1998 (3,162)

2. Aakash Raman (2,900)

3. Lazacant (2,875)

PHANTOM will be coming to Guardian Foundry as a standalone content pack to complete on your own and still earn a badge of completion for it!

Up Next - New Content Stream Friday June 5 at 2PM EST

We're reviewing the entire path of a network security analyst, from zero to Tier 2 network incident response and triage.

The full route. That includes a complete walkthrough with a network forensics report so you can see what the work actually looks like end to end.

👉 YouTube Link Here 🔗

If you've been stuck on where network analysis fits into a SOC career, this is the one to catch.

ContinuumCon, June 12 to 14

The cybersecurity conference that never ends is back, and we're co-hosting it with John Hammond and Just Hacking Training.

Three days, fully virtual, fifteen hands-on workshops and two keynote AMAs.

Full outline below and visible on the site: https://continuumcon.com/schedule/

Day 1, June 12

• Rekt, Jamie Williams, Juneau cDc, Rachel Tobac: Keynote Panel AMA

• Spencer Alessi: Killing Active Directory Attack Paths Once and For All

• Corey Ball: Instant API Hacker

• Fletus Poston III: Tactical GRC, Turning Governance Into a Force Multiplier

• Andy Piazza: Hacking Over and Under the Wire

• Mackenzie Jackson: Hunting Prompt Injection, Breaking AI Apps and CI/CD Pipelines

Day 2, June 13

• Bryson Bort and John Strand: Keynote AMA, "Spicy Rant"

• Zack Korman: Escaping Sandboxes with AI

• Eva Benn and Andrew Bellini: Prompt Injection Fundamentals and Hack-Along

• solst/ICE: Practical Security Engineering

• Christopher Dio Chavez: StegoDefender, Hunting Malware Hidden in Plain Sight

• Douglas Kaluhiokalani: Iranian and Nation-State APT Attacks

Day 3, June 14

• Matthew Nguyen: How to Analyze Malware

• Ihor Sasovets: Smarter AWS WAF, Reduce Noise and Automate Response

• Smit Nayak: Analyzing WannaCry, Recovering Ransomware Data with Open-Source Tools

• Tallis Jordan: Roll Your Own Analyst

• Josh Allman and Ben Folland: Offensive Threat Intel, Tracking and Disrupting Adversaries

The workshops stay open after the live days end. You train on your own schedule, your own timezone, as many times as you want.

The ContinuumCon CTF

There’s also a CTF! A fully compromised endpoint is waiting for you. You'll work a real machine end to end across the three days, with results called out during the conference.

For those that know our CDCP - this will feel even harder. 😅

July?

Get ready for July 10th with a massive update of content to the platform and more features. Stay tuned in our Discord and socials as we tease some more of that closer to the date.

Catch the stream tomorrow, jump into ContinuumCon next week, and come take a swing at the CTF.

Until then, keep on leveling up!

Level Effect Team