We've Built a Virtual Cybersecurity Internship

First - a quick why. From a hiring manager:

That's a real message. How is that even possible?

Certs. Labs. Bootcamps. Home labs. Simulators. Even IT job experience.

You did EVERYTHING you're supposed to do. But you're not qualified. What?

That's a gap.

Current training + job pipeline + showing your work = not working.

Doesn't matter if there's saturation. We're not seeing qualified applicants.

We built the "Guardian Foundry" to fix that.

Our own LMS and virtual internship with a publicly verifiable experience portfolio. Built specifically for this industry.

Prove You Can Do the Job

Prove you can:

• Find evasive live malware

• Write detection rules that actually work

• Respond to incidents like you've done it for years

• Audit security policies and propose real business solutions

Actual job-specific tasks. Actual experience. Actual qualifications.

Then:

• Submit your work for manual review

• All graded by former NSA operatives and senior industry professionals

• Get feedback

• Improve

Next?

Show off your job task completions in a public portfolio, and even share your work with employers.

When that hiring manager looks at your profile, they won't have to guess.

What We've Built

• Instructor-Verified Skill Checks: Every deliverable reviewed by former NSA operatives and senior industry professionals. Not auto-graded. Specific to job functions.

• Shareable Experience Portfolio: Show all the work you’ve been verified on publicly, and share samples directly to hiring managers.

• Real Enterprise Tools: Train on Sentinel, Splunk, and what's actually used in the field. Learn even to be tool-agnostic.

• Pathways: Structured tracks for SOC, GRC, Security Engineering, Pentesting, DFIR, and more.

• Progression Dashboard: See exactly where you are, what you've proven, and what's next.

• Industry Standard Mapped: All skills NIST NICE tagged, plus our own experience mapping.

• Recognized Training: Purdue Global trusts us for 59 academic credits toward a Bachelor of Science.

Portfolio Validation

Resumes and certs can only convey so much.

We will have publicly viewable recorded content of Instructors going through the grading process of what a passing submission looks like for various skill checks. These will act as proof anchors to anyone that wants to see the quality of what we grade, and what we determine to be passing submissions.

This is an incredibly important component.

This is in addition to your own portfolio you’ll have earned.

In effect you’ll be able to:

• Show YOUR work you completed directly to someone, or at a high level summarized by job tasks with checkmarks by us

• Show what the grading and process looks like by Instructors with actual submissions

Hybrid Training

This isn't just self-paced content:

• Live classes

• Walkthroughs

• Q&A sessions

• Interactive labs with real tools

You're never stuck figuring it out alone.

You'll also get access to all of our current training courses. These can be "textbooks" as needed to help you complete your skill checks.

And if you want to just be able to purchase the courses separately, you can do that too. We’ve stated that as an important value for us since day 1.

We Made It Feel Like a Game 🔥

Because if you're going to spend hundreds of hours building skills, you should actually enjoy it.

It's designed to be rewarding, not a grind.

The "game" of it:

• Stat Points: earn a "Malware Analysis" point, an "Email Security" point, and so on, mapped to roles

• Builds: Customize your progression path based on your career goals

• Boss Battles: Multi-skill challenges that feel like real live incidents, with a trophy of completion

• Character Sheet: Your portfolio of verified job tasks completed

• Cybersecurity Worlds: Explore different areas of cybersecurity in different zones

• Guilds: Multiplayer cybersecurity training ftw!

This Field Is Genuinely Exciting

Nation-states hacking infrastructure. Ransomware gangs. Zero-days in the wild. We're living in a near-cyberpunk reality.

You're training to be part of it.

Your training should match that energy.

Who We Are

We're Level Effect.

Former NSA operatives and senior industry professionals. We've been training cybersecurity professionals live since 2020, primarily in small, focused classes.

Now we're opening up that model. Bigger and better than ever.

Get on the Waitlist

Early access launching very soon.

It's time to develop real experience that is clearly needed.

We can't wait to open the doors to this for you and forge the future of this industry together.

- Level Effect