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From curious beginner to cybersecurity professional
Tell us where you are and where you want to go. Hackdemy AI turns your goals into an ordered, practical roadmap you can act on today.
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From curious beginner to cybersecurity professional
Your plan will connect fundamentals, guided practice, role-based labs and an exam-style certification challenge.
Certification Paths
Prove your skills in real-world cyber labs
Progress from guided missions to independent, exam-style environments designed around the work cybersecurity professionals actually do.
Practical Pentesting
Build an evidence-led testing methodology across reconnaissance, exploitation, privilege escalation and reporting.
- Web and network footholds
- Linux and Windows escalation
- Multi-stage capstone exam
Enterprise & Active Directory
Navigate realistic enterprise networks, identity systems, trust relationships and lateral movement safely.
- Multi-host enterprise range
- Active Directory attack paths
- Objective-based practical exam
SOC & Defensive Operations
Investigate alerts, connect evidence and make confident decisions under realistic incident conditions.
- Triage and log analysis
- Threat hunting missions
- Timed incident response exam
Web Application Security
Move from HTTP fundamentals to testing modern applications and communicating risk clearly.
- Authentication and access control
- API testing scenarios
- Black-box assessment exam
Cloud Security
Learn to assess identity, configuration and attack paths across practical cloud environments.
- Cloud identity review
- Misconfiguration chains
- Cloud breach simulation
AI LLM Security
Probe and harden large language model systems — prompt injection, data leakage and model abuse in realistic AI applications.
- Prompt injection scenarios
- Insecure agent and RAG chains
- LLM red-team assessment exam
AI Sec Ops
Operate security monitoring for AI-powered environments, from model telemetry to detecting abuse of AI features.
- AI system monitoring and triage
- Detection of model abuse
- Timed AI incident response exam
AI Security Engineer
Design and defend AI-integrated products with secure architecture, guardrails, evaluation and adversarial testing.
- Secure AI architecture reviews
- Guardrail and sandbox engineering
- Adversarial resilience capstone
Information Security Specialist (GRC)
Build governance, risk and compliance capability — frameworks, audits, policies and security programme leadership.
- Control framework mapping
- Risk assessment workshops
- Audit and policy case-study exam
Advanced tracks use the same broad category of realistic, multi-host practice familiar to learners exploring products such as HTB Dante and RastaLabs. Hackdemy is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by those brands.
Discover
Map your current experience, interests and career goal.
Build
Master foundations through guided lessons and focused labs.
Practise
Apply skills across connected, real-world scenarios.
Certify
Complete an independent practical exam and prove capability.
Your next move should be clear
Generate your path, choose your first mission and start building evidence of what you can do.