Course Catalog
50 courses across six Planetary Defense Model domains. Start free, advance at your pace. Every course maps to certification.
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Your introduction to the geological core. Learn what data protection means, why sovereignty matters, and how organizations safeguard their most critical asset.
AI-focused data protection fundamentals. Use modern tools to classify, monitor, and protect data assets.
Configure and manage encryption at rest and in transit. Key management, certificate lifecycle, and PKI operations.
Analyze data flows, assess classification accuracy, evaluate compliance with sovereignty requirements.
Build data sovereignty systems. Implement sovereign data protocols, cross-border controls, and privacy engineering.
Design multi-cloud data protection architectures. Enterprise DLP strategy, classification automation, key management at scale.
Lead data protection programs. Board-level reporting, regulatory strategy, organizational data governance, and program transformation.
Complete mastery across all six PDM domains. The Eagle Standard is the highest achievement in cybersecurity certification. Fewer than 1% of students will reach this level.
The starting point for every CDA journey. Learn how CDA thinks about cybersecurity through the Planetary Defense Model, its six domains, and the operational structure that ties everything together.
Enter the civilization built on digital terrain. Learn about authentication, authorization, and how trust is established, verified, and revoked.
AI-focused identity and access management fundamentals. Modern tools for adaptive authentication, behavioral analytics, and risk-based access.
Manage user accounts, configure MFA, implement RBAC, handle access reviews and provisioning workflows.
Analyze identity attack surfaces. Evaluate SSO configurations, assess privilege creep, audit access patterns.
Build zero trust identity systems. SAML, OIDC, SCIM provisioning, conditional access policies.
Design enterprise zero trust architectures. Identity federation, micro-segmentation, continuous verification systems.
Lead identity programs. Governance frameworks, vendor strategy, organizational IAM transformation.
View your organization from orbit. Learn how risk is measured, governance is structured, and compliance becomes a continuous state.
AI-focused governance, risk, and compliance fundamentals. Modern tools for automated risk assessment, policy analysis, and compliance monitoring.
Manage compliance evidence, track control implementations, support audit processes. SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF.
Conduct risk assessments. Quantitative and qualitative methods, risk registers, treatment planning, and risk reporting.
Build GRC automation systems. Policy-as-code, continuous compliance monitoring, evidence collection pipelines.
Design enterprise governance frameworks. Multi-regulation mapping, board reporting architectures, risk quantification models.
Lead organizational risk programs. Regulatory strategy, board engagement, enterprise risk transformation.
Walk the terrain of your digital landscape. Learn about baselines, configurations, and the daily operations that determine whether defenses hold.
AI-focused security posture management. Modern tools for automated baseline assessment, drift detection, and compliance scoring.
Harden Windows, Linux, and macOS endpoints. CIS benchmarks, firewall rules, audit logging, and EDR deployment.
Evaluate organizational security posture. Gap analysis, benchmark scoring, remediation planning, and posture trending.
Build automated posture management systems. Configuration drift detection, auto-remediation, and compliance pipelines.
Design enterprise posture management programs. Multi-environment baselines, scoring frameworks, and continuous monitoring architectures.
Lead security hygiene programs. Organizational change management, metrics-driven improvement, and security culture building.
Look up at the atmosphere. Threats move through it constantly. Learn who attacks, why, and how defenders detect and respond.
AI-focused threat intelligence and detection fundamentals. Modern tools for automated threat hunting, ML-based detection, and intelligence automation.
Monitor security alerts, use SIEM tools, respond to common threat indicators. Log analysis and alert correlation.
Investigate incidents, analyze malware indicators, produce intelligence reports. OSINT and threat hunting.
Build detection systems. Write SIEM rules, deploy honeypots, create threat feeds, automate response workflows.
Design enterprise threat intelligence programs. SOC architecture, threat modeling frameworks, adversary emulation.
Lead threat intelligence operations. Strategic intelligence, geopolitical analysis, and executive threat briefings.
Explore the oceans surrounding your digital continent. Learn what attack surfaces are, how vulnerabilities are found, and why surface reduction is a continuous battle.
AI-focused vulnerability management fundamentals. Modern tools for automated scanning, prioritization, and surface analysis.
Run vulnerability scans, interpret results, prioritize findings. Nmap, OpenVAS, Nessus, and manual verification.
Validate scan results, eliminate false positives, prioritize by risk, produce client-ready assessment reports.
Build continuous surface reduction programs. Asset discovery automation, patch management engineering, exposure scoring.
Design enterprise vulnerability management programs. Risk-based prioritization frameworks, SLA architectures, and metrics systems.
Lead vulnerability management at organizational scale. Vendor evaluation, program maturity modeling, executive reporting.
Secure cloud and hybrid infrastructure across vulnerability, identity, and data domains. AWS, Azure, GCP security architecture.
Strategic security leadership combining governance, intelligence, and identity into an executive-level security program management capability.
Master incident response across all PDM domains. Combine threat intelligence, identity forensics, and posture recovery into a unified response capability.
Secure operational technology and industrial control systems. Combine posture management, vulnerability defense, and data protection for critical infrastructure.
Advanced offensive security combining vulnerability exploitation, threat simulation, and posture assessment into full-spectrum red team operations.
The broadest cross-domain specialty. Combine Engineer-level capability across multiple domains with strategic-level warfare planning and execution.