Vijilan Cybersecurity Academy

Real cybersecurity training,
free to start.

Courses written and taught by the analysts who defend organizations every day in Vijilan's 24/7 SOC. Learn how attackers think, how modern defense actually works, and how AI is reshaping both — then earn badges toward the Vijilan Certified Defender certification.

Start with Foundations Explore AI Detection & Response

The path to Vijilan Certified Defender

The academy is organized as eight security domains — the asset classes every defender must cover. Work through each domain track to earn its badge; collect all eight to unlock the Vijilan Certified Defender capstone. Four tracks are live today, with the rest in active development.

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Foundations

New to cybersecurity? Start here. No prior experience required.

VCA · Network

Network Security

Defend the roads, gates, and watchtowers of your digital city.

Master the protocols, tools, and attacker techniques that define network defense. From packet analysis to firewall policy, you'll think like a SOC analyst watching every hop.

3h 13 lessons4 free previews

VCA · AI DR

AI Detection and Response

Machine-speed attacks demand machine-speed defense.

The fastest-moving domain in security. How AI transformed detection and response, how attackers weaponize the same models, and how to defend AI systems themselves — from EDR lineage to agentic SOC operations, adversarial AI, and prompt injection.

4h 12 lessons1 free preview

VCA · SIEM & SOAR

SIEM & SOAR Engineering

From raw telemetry to automated response.

The masterclass in building and operating a modern SOC stack: collecting the right telemetry, parsing and normalizing it into a common schema, engineering behavioral detections mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, and automating response with SOAR playbooks that keep a human in the loop. Written for security engineers, SOC analysts, detection engineers, and architects.

3h 12 lessons2 free previews

More domains in development

Device & Endpoint Security Coming soon

Identity & Users Coming soon

Data Security Coming soon

Application Security Coming soon

Cloud Security Coming soon

From the classroom to the SOC

The techniques you learn here are what we run in production.

The AI Detection & Response track covers the exact lineage behind Vijilan's managed service — from behavioral EDR to agentic AI triage on CrowdStrike Falcon and Charlotte AI. When you're ready to see it defending a real environment, that's ThreatDefend and NextDefend.

ThreatDefend (mXDR)Managed Falcon Next-Gen SIEM

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