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Academy

Data Security
coming soon.

We're building the Data Security curriculum now. Four full tracks are already live and free to start.

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In short

The Data Security track of the Vijilan Cybersecurity Academy is in active development. Data is what attackers ultimately monetize — and what regulators ultimately ask about. This track will cover protecting information through its whole lifecycle: classifying what matters, encrypting it properly, catching exfiltration in progress, and keeping recoverable copies ransomware cannot touch. Every academy track is free, and each finishes with a domain badge that counts toward the Vijilan Certified Defender capstone.

What this track will cover

  • Classification & handling
    Knowing which data is sensitive, where it lives and who touches it.
  • Encryption in practice
    At rest, in transit — and the key-management mistakes that undo both.
  • Exfiltration & DLP
    How data leaves quietly, and the signals that expose it on the way out.
  • Backup & recovery
    Immutable copies, tested restores and surviving a ransomware event.

The full lesson list and knowledge checks land when the curriculum ships — the outline above is the shape of the course.

Live now: four free tracks

Foundations

Build the mental model every security professional needs: how attackers think, how defenders respond, and the vocabulary that connects the two. No prior experience required.

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Network Security

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.

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AI Detection and Response

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.

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SIEM & SOAR Engineering

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.

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