Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week
Get hands-on cybersecurity experience inside realistic labs
Complete our monthly challenge to unlock new skills — plus prizes!
What this activity offers
We've bundled three hands-on labs into a single cybersecurity challenge.
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Discover new cybersecurity skills
As you progress through the challenge, each lab will introduce a new set of cyber skills. This is a great way to get an inside look at the life of a cyber professional!
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Earn your certificate
If you successfully complete all three labs, you'll unlock a certificate of completion. Way to go!
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Enter to win prizes
That's right — you can unlock more than new skills and bragging rights. Share your certificate of completion on LinkedIn for a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card, Infosec hoodie and 1-year subscription to Infosec Skills!
How to participate
1. Create your free account
One short form and you're in!
We’ve hand-picked training activities from our award-winning education platform to share with the world — totally free. Once you have an account, you can access our Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week activity.
2. Complete each activity
We've included three hands-on labs for you to explore.
Each activity will highlight a different set of cybersecurity skills so that you can explore what aspects of cybersecurity are most interesting to you.
3. Download and share your certificate
Remember those prizes we mentioned?
If you complete all 3 activities, you’ll unlock your certificate of completion! Be sure to share it on LinkedIn and tag @Infosec for your chance to win prizes.
What challenge awaits?
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Metasploit Framework
You'll start out by getting hands-on experience with the Metasploit framework — a powerful tool used by ethical hackers to investigate systematic vulnerabilities.
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Insecure Sudo
Moving on to the second lab, you'll leverage Sudo to set up user permissions and explore the harmful side effects of insecure implementation.
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Secure coding in Python
To wrap up the Monthly Challenge, you'll head over to our secure coding cyber rage to take on secure coding errors commonly found in Python.
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