Our Alumni Are Building Products

December 2025 Newsletter

Yes. You read that right.

Lots of updates this past month - let’s jump in!

Table of Contents

Cyber Cola, anyone?

Jordan Westfall, one of our CDA alumni, just launched a product. Not a side project. Not a proof of concept. A real product that's live and being used right now.

Picture this:

  • All the latest cyber threat intel

  • Summarized into news paper headings

  • With links to know more

  • No ads, no noise, no distractions

  • Just you and the news in a retro style CTI newspaper

Announcement post:

This is what happens when you train to understand the why. This leads to innovation and solving real problems. Not just copying “what works” or the latest meta.

Excellent work Jordan! We’re super proud of all you put into this! 🙌

Black Friday Sales still on to Dec 8th - up to 45% OFF!

Our Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale is still running. We extended it through December 8th.

If you've been waiting to grab a course or bundle at a discount, you've got until Sunday to lock it in.

Reverse Engineering Series Wrapped

We finished the Reverse Engineering series over the last few weeks with some seriously deep technical content.

Covered multi-stage payload decryption, obfuscated PowerShell analysis, and live malware teardowns. The kind of stuff you actually need to know when you're staring at suspicious binaries in production.

Malware Home Lab Part 2 Stream

On November 29th we ran through the adversary emulation tests confirming our lab could hunt for - process, persistence, and networking IOCs!

If you've been wanting to set up your own isolated environment to run and analyze malware, this is your blueprint. No theory. Just the actual setup.

If you were looking for Part 1… you’ll find in the next section below…

Updated Home Lab Content Now Free

Speaking of home labs, we made the entire SOC100-2 Home Lab content FREE for everyone. (This is where the Home Lab Part 1 content is - NO STREAM for it!)

You get the full curriculum for building a malware analysis environment. No strings attached. We want more people analyzing malware properly instead of guessing.

Practical AI for Security Now On-Demand

Remember that infrastructure breakthrough we mentioned last month? It's live.

Practical AI for Security is now available completely on-demand with access to our custom security-focused AI model. No more waiting for cohorts. No more fixed schedules.

You get the full course with recordings plus on-demand access to the MEDIC custom model we built specifically for security work. Start whenever you want.

Collaborations!

We're collaborating with Ginger Hacker Initiative to bring more training opportunities to the community.

Ginger Hacker

vx-underground

We also partnered with vx underground to give away content. Still available if you haven't grabbed it yet.

Client Training Available

We're now taking on client training. If your company needs to level up your security team, we can provide discounted rates for team training packages. We’ll make a more formal announcement on it next year.

Different skill levels, different roles, different needs. We'll build a package that actually fits your team instead of forcing everyone through the same generic content.

Reply to this email if you want to discuss options for your organization, or reach out to us at [email protected] !

That's December.

Alumni building products, solid technical streams wrapped, free content released, new collabs formed, and we're scaling up to train entire teams.

2026 is going to be different. More on that in January.

The Level Effect Team

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