How ProjectSecurity Works
Build real-world security homelabs. Break them to understand the threats. Secure them like the pros. Walk away with a portfolio that proves you can do the work.
Interested in Cybersecurity?
Whether you're just starting out, switching careers, or leveling up on your own, we are here to build your cyber career.
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The Ethos in Everything We Do...
Build
Build your essential tech skills through homelabs that mirror the environments you'll work in.
Break
Break them to understand how attackers think, move, and exploit real weaknesses.
Secure
Secure them with the hardening, detection, and defense strategies professionals use in the field.
The Homelab That Gets You The Skills
Each Core Section builds on the last. No Temporary Labs. Follow the path from your first enterprise network to securing your own web threat intelligence app that you build.
- 1
E101Enterprise 101
Build a full enterprise network: Active Directory, DNS/DHCP, Wazuh SIEM, and a complete attack simulation.
- 2
NA101Networks & Attacks 101
Build + Scale Your Network: Wireshark packet analysis, pfSense + Suricata, and Layer 2â7 attacks and defenses.
- 3
CA101Cloud & Attacks 101
Build Your Own Production Network in AWS: IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, Lambda â attack misconfigs and defend with detection rules.
- 4
WA101Web & Attacks 101 Soon
Build + Deploy a Real World Web App: OWASP Top 10, SQL injection, XSS, auth flaws, API security, and hands-on web defense.
Your Path To A Portfolio & Job-Ready Cyber Skills
Learn The Foundations
Start from zero and build a rock-solid base. Understand how networks, operating systems, the cloud, and web apps actually fit together, with every concept explained as you build it. No prior experience required.
Get Hands-On, Not Just Theory
Everything you learn is hands-on. Skip the endless slideshows. You'll provision real machines, launch live attacks, and deploy the defenses that stop them, using the exact tools and workflows security teams rely on every day.
Build A Complete, End-to-End Portfolio Project
Finish with a real, deployed web application you can demo in interviews and link straight from your resume. You will build this live, customizable Web Threat Intelligence Dashboard. Tangible proof that you can build, break, and secure.
Technologies you'll use
Testimonials
"You are the GOAT by the way, this project alone got me a co-op."
Jang O. "One of the best FREE courses in building your own cybersecurity home lab! If you want hands-on skills in ethical hacking, forensics, and incident response, you need a home lab, a safe space to experiment, break things, and learn by doing. You will gain skills that you will not find in most courses! This course teaches you how to build an AD lab, setting up and using tools like Wazuh, Security Onion, MailHog, etc., and also simulating and detecting the attack."
Husam Shbib "I am starting a new job at Arctic Wolf as a Triage Security Analyst. I recently completed this project from Grant Collins. It's really well organized and explained, and available for free. Cyber projects and content created by Grant Collins were also really helpful in getting hands on with a wide range of tools. Thank you!"
Joseph Howard Build the homelab that builds your career.
Everything you need to go from zero to a complete, hireable skill set â start to finish.
- 4 complete homelab builds â Enterprise, Network, Cloud & Web
- Monthly Meetups
- A deployed, resume-ready capstone project
- Step-by-step guides plus video walkthroughs
- Beginner friendly â no experience required
Program enrollment opens with our July launch. Get started now with the free options below.