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Cyber Field Ops
Virtual Work Experience
Continuous access Self-paced · save & resume No prerequisites
Five seats · one operation

Five real cyber jobs, told as five cases.
You read the story — and you make the calls.

This isn’t a course you click through. Each seat is an immersive case on a real operations floor: colleagues, a live situation, a clock. The story carries you — and at every turn you do the actual work with your own hands: sever the intrusion, hunt the evidence, make the call. No lessons to read first, no test at the end. All five belong to one unfolding operation.

Choose your case ↓ New to this? Start with Field Basics ~20–30 min each · play them in any order
Start here · no experience needed
Field Basics — your first week
Never touched any of this? Ten short lessons that build from zero — what a computer, a network, and the web really are, in plain language, and why each piece matters when you defend one. Taught properly, one idea at a time. Then every seat below makes sense.
Begin
Operations Coordinator
The Floor
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Run a live watch floor. Incidents hit your board faster than your team can clear them — you decide who works what, and in what order, and brief the director on the one that can’t wait.
Triage, dispatch, and brief under pressure
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Intrusion Analyst
The Watch Floor
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A live queue of alerts, most of them nothing. Read the raw evidence, learn what normal looks like, and find the one quiet signal that’s a real intrusion — before it phones home.
Triage alerts, spot the anomaly, escalate
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Incident Responder
Containment
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An intrusion is spreading across a hospital network right now, on a clock that doesn’t wait. Cut it off with your own hands, save the evidence, and protect the systems patients depend on.
Contain a live incident under real time pressure
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Malware Analyst
The Bench
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A suspicious file lands on your bench. Take it apart with real tools — read what it hides, spot the tells no clean program has, run it safely — and prove whether it’s a weapon.
Static analysis, sandbox, extract the indicators
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Penetration Tester & Vulnerability Researcher
The Engagement
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You’re hired to break in — legally, with a signed contract. Recon the target, judge every exposed service, find the door everyone forgot, prove you could reach the keys — and know exactly where the law says stop.
Recon, find the way in, prove it, hold the scope line
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Already comfortable?
Skip the story — sit straight down at the console.
Each case has a full working analyst console behind it. Jump into the raw tools and practice the hands-on part on its own, as many times as you like.
The Floor The Watch Floor Containment The Bench The Engagement
How it works

Built to feel like the job, not like a course.

Nothing to read first

No modules, no gated lessons. Every seat opens straight into the work; a colleague shows you the ropes in the moment, the way a real first day goes.

No scores, no ranking

You never get a grade. The situation itself answers you — the network reacts, your colleague responds, the incident resolves or doesn’t. Feedback is what happens, not a mark.

Someone to ask

Every seat has an expert beside you. Stuck? Ask them — they point you at what to look at, never hand you the answer. It’s a mentor, not a walkthrough.

Rolling enrolment · start any time Save & resume across sessions Completion certificate on finish