🛡️ Cybersecurity From the CIA triad and identity to malware, forensics, and governance — a full blue-team journey, fundamentals first.
0/25 🎣 Phishing Analysis Dissect a real-world phishing email and learn the tells. +120 XP · +120 🪙 🚨 Incident Response Work an incident from detection to recovery using the NIST lifecycle. +150 XP · +150 🪙 📊 SIEM Basics Understand what a SIEM does and how to read its signals. +130 XP · +130 🪙 🔎 Vulnerability Management Run the vulnerability management loop and prioritize what matters. +140 XP · +140 🪙 🕵️ Threat Hunting Hunt proactively for threats that slipped past your alerts. +170 XP · +170 🪙 🦠 Malware Analysis Safely triage a suspicious file and classify what it does. +180 XP · +180 🪙 🔑 Passwords & MFA Why passwords fail, and what actually stops account takeover. +110 XP · +110 🪙 🔒 Ransomware Defense How ransomware works and the layered defenses that beat it. +160 XP · +160 🪙 🛡️ Zero Trust Never trust, always verify — the modern security model. +140 XP · +140 🪙 🎭 Social Engineering Hacking the human: how manipulation works and how to resist it. +130 XP · +130 🪙 🔐 Encryption Basics How encryption protects data at rest and in transit. +130 XP · +130 🪙 🥷 Penetration Testing Thinking like an attacker to find holes before they do. +170 XP · +170 🪙 📋 Logging & Monitoring If it isn’t logged, it didn’t happen — security visibility. +130 XP · +130 🪙 🚨 Incident Response What to do when — not if — something goes wrong. +150 XP · +150 🪙 🎯 Threat Modeling Thinking like an attacker — on purpose, before they do. +150 XP · +150 🪙 🔗 Supply Chain Security Your security is only as strong as the code and vendors you trust. +150 XP · +150 🪙 🔐 The CIA Triad The three pillars every security decision balances: Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability. +120 XP · +120 🪙 🪪 Identity & Access Management Identity is the new perimeter — how authentication and authorization really work. +150 XP · +150 🪙 🧱 Network Security & Segmentation Why flat networks are dangerous and how segmentation contains a breach. +150 XP · +150 🪙 🔑 Applied Cryptography Symmetric, asymmetric, hashing — what each does and when to use it. +160 XP · +160 🪙 🛰️ The SOC & Blue Team How a Security Operations Center detects, triages, and responds around the clock. +150 XP · +150 🪙 🔭 OSINT & Reconnaissance How attackers (and defenders) gather intel from public sources — and how to reduce your footprint. +140 XP · +140 🪙 🕸️ Web Application Security The OWASP Top 10 mindset: how web apps get hacked and how to stop it. +160 XP · +160 🪙 📱 Mobile & Endpoint Security Securing the devices that live outside your walls — phones, laptops, BYOD. +130 XP · +130 🪙 📐 Security Governance & Risk Frameworks, policies, and risk — the strategic layer that directs all the technical work. +140 XP · +140 🪙 🔬 Digital Forensics & DFIR How investigators reconstruct what happened after an incident — without destroying the evidence. +160 XP · +160 🪙
🔌 Networking From the OSI model and subnetting up through TLS, SD-WAN, and Zero Trust networking.
0/22 🏷️ VLANs Segment a network with VLANs and understand why it matters. +110 XP · +110 🪙 🗺️ Routing Follow a packet across networks and understand routing decisions. +130 XP · +130 🪙 🔀 Switching Learn how switches learn, forward, and avoid loops. +120 XP · +120 🪙 🧱 Firewalls Write firewall rules that follow least-privilege. +140 XP · +140 🪙 🔐 VPNs Understand VPN tunnels, and why a VPN is not a force field. +130 XP · +130 🪙 📶 Wireless Design Design a Wi-Fi network that is fast and secure. +120 XP · +120 🪙 🌐 DNS Deep Dive The internet's phonebook — and a favorite attacker target. +130 XP · +130 🪙 📚 TCP/IP Model The layered model that makes the internet work. +120 XP · +120 🪙 ⚖️ Load Balancing Spreading traffic so no single server melts down. +130 XP · +130 🪙 🔢 IPv6 Essentials The address space that replaces the exhausted IPv4. +120 XP · +120 🪙 📈 Network Monitoring You can't fix what you can't see — visibility into your network. +130 XP · +130 🪙 🔒 VPNs & Tunneling How VPNs create a private tunnel across a public internet. +130 XP · +130 🪙 🧱 Firewalls Explained The gatekeeper that decides what traffic is allowed. +120 XP · +120 🪙 🌐 How the Internet Really Works Follow a single click from your browser all the way to a server and back. +150 XP · +150 🪙 📚 The OSI Model in Depth Seven layers that turn 'the network is down' into a precise, solvable question. +140 XP · +140 🪙 🔢 Subnetting & CIDR Mastery Carve IP space into right-sized networks — the skill that separates pros from button-pushers. +160 XP · +160 🪙 📡 DHCP & Dynamic Addressing How devices get their network identity automatically — and how that process gets attacked. +120 XP · +120 🪙 🔁 NAT, Ports & Stateful Firewalls How one public IP serves a whole office, and how firewalls track conversations. +140 XP · +140 🪙 🔒 How HTTPS & TLS Actually Work The padlock explained: certificates, the handshake, and the chain of trust. +150 XP · +150 🪙 🎚️ QoS & Network Performance Why your video call stutters when someone downloads — and how to fix it with QoS. +130 XP · +130 🪙 🌉 SD-WAN & Modern Networking How software is reshaping networks — from hardware boxes to programmable infrastructure. +150 XP · +150 🪙 🚧 Zero Trust Networking Beyond the firewall: why 'trust nothing, verify everything' is replacing the network perimeter. +150 XP · +150 🪙
☁️ Cloud & M365 Shared responsibility, IAM, storage, containers, Kubernetes, observability, cost, and architecture.
0/19 🟧 AWS Fundamentals Get oriented in AWS: regions, IAM, and the shared responsibility model. +150 XP · +150 🪙 🔷 Azure Fundamentals Navigate Azure: subscriptions, resource groups, and RBAC. +150 XP · +150 🪙 📧 Microsoft 365 Secure a Microsoft 365 tenant the way an MSP does. +130 XP · +130 🪙 🪪 Entra ID Master identity with Entra ID — the new perimeter. +140 XP · +140 🪙 🛡️ Cloud Security Tie it together: cloud security posture and common pitfalls. +170 XP · +170 🪙 📦 Containers & Docker Package once, run anywhere — the container revolution. +150 XP · +150 🪙 ⚡ Serverless & Edge Run code without managing servers — like this very platform. +150 XP · +150 🪙 🏗️ Infrastructure as Code Define your infrastructure in files you can version and review. +150 XP · +150 🪙 💰 Cloud Cost Management The cloud is rented — unmanaged, the bill surprises you. +130 XP · +130 🪙 🔄 Cloud Backup & DR Resilience in the cloud: backups, regions, and recovery. +150 XP · +150 🪙 🧩 Microservices Breaking a big app into small, independent services. +150 XP · +150 🪙 🌐 Scaling & the CAP Theorem The fundamental trade-off behind every distributed system. +160 XP · +160 🪙 🤝 The Shared Responsibility Model The single most misunderstood idea in cloud — who secures what, and the gaps that cause breaches. +140 XP · +140 🪙 🔑 Cloud IAM & Least Privilege Roles, policies, and the over-permissioning that fuels cloud breaches. +160 XP · +160 🪙 🗄️ Cloud Storage & Data Services Object, block, and file storage — picking the right one and not leaking it. +140 XP · +140 🪙 ☸️ Kubernetes & Orchestration What container orchestration solves, and the core concepts behind the buzzword. +170 XP · +170 🪙 📡 Observability: Logs, Metrics & Traces Knowing what your systems are doing — the three pillars that turn mystery outages into clear stories. +150 XP · +150 🪙 🏛️ Well-Architected: Designing Cloud Right The five pillars of a sound cloud architecture — the checklist senior engineers think in. +160 XP · +160 🪙 💸 FinOps: Cloud Cost Engineering The cloud bill is a design choice — how engineering and finance together tame runaway spend. +150 XP · +150 🪙
🧰 MSP Operations Run the business: RMM, BCDR, pricing, help-desk craft, automation, and the soft skills that build careers.
0/21 🤝 Client Onboarding Onboard a new client cleanly so nothing falls through the cracks. +100 XP · +100 🪙 📚 Documentation Build documentation that survives staff turnover. +100 XP · +100 🪙 💾 Backup Validation Validate backups so you actually have them when it counts. +120 XP · +120 🪙 🎫 Ticketing Run a ticket queue that clients trust. +100 XP · +100 🪙 🗂️ Asset Management Track every asset so nothing is unmanaged or unpatched. +110 XP · +110 🪙 📜 SLAs & Expectations Setting clear service expectations clients can count on. +110 XP · +110 🪙 🩹 Patch Management Keeping every system current without breaking everything. +120 XP · +120 🪙 🤝 Vendor Management Third parties are part of your attack surface and your service. +110 XP · +110 🪙 ⚖️ Compliance Basics Helping clients meet the rules that apply to their industry. +130 XP · +130 🪙 🎯 vCIO & Strategy Rising from fixing problems to guiding client technology strategy. +140 XP · +140 🪙 💎 Markets, Value & Real Wealth A grounded look at markets — and where lasting value really comes from. +150 XP · +150 🪙 🎫 Ticketing & Workflow How great MSPs stay organized and never drop a client request. +110 XP · +110 🪙 🚀 Building an IT Career Turning skills into a durable, rewarding career in tech. +140 XP · +140 🪙 🖥️ RMM: Remote Monitoring & Management The nerve center of a modern MSP — how one tech keeps thousands of machines healthy. +140 XP · +140 🪙 🔄 Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery The difference between a bad day and a closed business — RPO, RTO, and backups that actually work. +160 XP · +160 🪙 💵 MSP Pricing & Business Models Break/fix vs managed services — how MSPs make money and align with client success. +140 XP · +140 🪙 🎧 Help Desk Excellence The human skills that turn a frustrated caller into a loyal client — support as a craft. +130 XP · +130 🪙 🔧 Change Management Why disciplined change is how pros avoid self-inflicted outages. +130 XP · +130 🪙 🗣️ Professional Soft Skills The career-defining skills no certification teaches — communication, trust, and judgment. +120 XP · +120 🪙 ⚙️ Automation & Scripting for IT Stop doing the same task twice — how automation multiplies a technician into a team. +150 XP · +150 🪙 🧰 Building Your IT Toolkit The categories of tools every IT pro and MSP relies on — and how to choose them wisely. +120 XP · +120 🪙
💻 Developer From HTML and data structures through async, HTTP, auth, CI/CD, performance, and software architecture.
0/23 📄 HTML Write semantic, accessible HTML from scratch. +90 XP · +90 🪙 🎨 CSS Style with modern CSS: the box model, Flexbox, and Grid. +90 XP · +90 🪙 ⚡ JavaScript Make pages interactive with JavaScript fundamentals. +120 XP · +120 🪙 🐍 Python Automate tasks with Python — the IT pro’s power tool. +130 XP · +130 🪙 🔌 APIs Consume and reason about REST APIs. +140 XP · +140 🪙 🌿 Git & Version Control Track every change, collaborate safely, never lose work. +120 XP · +120 🪙 🐞 Debugging Skills The systematic art of finding why code misbehaves. +120 XP · +120 🪙 🗄️ SQL & Databases Asking questions of data — the universal data language. +130 XP · +130 🪙 ✅ Testing & QA Catching bugs before your users do. +120 XP · +120 🪙 ⌨️ Command Line Power The terminal: faster, scriptable, and everywhere in IT. +110 XP · +110 🪙 🌍 Open Source & Why It Matters What open source is, and why transparency beats black boxes. +140 XP · +140 🪙 📖 Reading the Docs The underrated superpower: finding answers in documentation. +110 XP · +110 🪙 🔌 APIs & REST How programs talk to each other over the web. +130 XP · +130 🪙 ⚡ Thinking About Performance (Big-O) Why some code stays fast as data grows — and some grinds to a halt. +150 XP · +150 🪙 📝 Writing Code Humans Can Read Code is read far more than it’s written — write for the reader. +130 XP · +130 🪙 🗃️ Data Structures That Matter Arrays, maps, sets, and queues — choosing the right container makes code fast and clear. +150 XP · +150 🪙 ⏳ Async, Promises & Concurrency Why modern code doesn't just wait — and how to handle things that take time without freezing. +160 XP · +160 🪙 🔤 Regular Expressions The pattern-matching mini-language that finds, validates, and extracts text everywhere in IT. +140 XP · +140 🪙 🌐 HTTP Deep Dive Methods, status codes, and headers — the protocol behind every web request you'll ever debug. +140 XP · +140 🪙 🎟️ Auth in Apps: Sessions, Tokens & OAuth How apps remember who you are and let you 'log in with Google' — safely. +160 XP · +160 🪙 🚀 CI/CD & Automated Delivery Ship code safely and often — the pipeline that turns 'works on my machine' into reliable releases. +150 XP · +150 🪙 ⚡ Web Performance & UX Why speed is a feature — and the concrete techniques that make sites feel instant. +140 XP · +140 🪙 🛟 Error Handling & Resilience Code that fails gracefully — anticipating problems so a glitch doesn't become a crash. +130 XP · +130 🪙 🏗️ Software Architecture Basics Thinking above the code — how to structure systems that stay maintainable as they grow. +160 XP · +160 🪙
🤖 AI & Automation How neural nets and LLMs work, advanced prompting, RAG, agents, MLOps, AI security, and using it wisely.
0/17 💬 Prompt Engineering Write prompts that get reliable results from AI models. +110 XP · +110 🪙 ⚙️ AI Automation Use AI to automate real work without losing control. +130 XP · +130 🪙 🔄 Workflow Automation Design an end-to-end automated business workflow. +140 XP · +140 🪙 🧠 How LLMs Work What's actually happening inside an AI language model. +130 XP · +130 🪙 🔎 RAG & AI Search Grounding AI in your own data for accurate, current answers. +150 XP · +150 🪙 🤖 AI Agents AI that doesn't just answer — it takes actions toward a goal. +160 XP · +160 🪙 ⚖️ Ethics in Tech Building responsibly: privacy, honesty, and human impact. +130 XP · +130 🪙 ✍️ Prompt Engineering Getting better results from AI by asking better questions. +120 XP · +120 🪙 ⚖️ AI Bias & Fairness Why AI can be unfair — and how to build it more responsibly. +140 XP · +140 🪙 🧠 How Neural Networks Learn From raw data to a model that generalizes — the core idea behind all modern AI. +150 XP · +150 🪙 🔮 Transformers & How LLMs Work What's really happening inside ChatGPT — tokens, attention, and next-word prediction. +170 XP · +170 🪙 ✍️ Advanced Prompting Techniques Beyond basic prompts — the structured techniques that dramatically improve AI output. +150 XP · +150 🪙 🔎 RAG: Grounding AI in Your Data How to make AI answer accurately from YOUR documents — the architecture behind real AI assistants. +170 XP · +170 🪙 🤖 AI Agents & Tool Use AI that doesn't just answer — it takes actions, uses tools, and pursues goals. +170 XP · +170 🪙 🏭 Putting AI Into Production The hard part isn't building a model — it's running it reliably in the real world. +160 XP · +160 🪙 🛡️ Securing AI Systems New tech, new attack surface — prompt injection, data poisoning, and AI-specific risks. +160 XP · +160 🪙 🧭 AI, Work & Using It Wisely A grounded, honest look at AI's impact — and how to make it an amplifier, not a crutch. +140 XP · +140 🪙