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Get ready for a career in Cyber

Beginners:

Immersive Labs

Cyber Million helps to address the global cybersecurity talent shortage by helping individuals build the necessary skills for a career in cybersecurity. The program is freely available to anyone over the age of 16.

Vulnhub

Provides materials that allow all levels to gain practical 'hands-on' experience in digital security, computer software and network administration.

NCSC: Cyber First

Courses, activities, videos and girls competition tasters

Cyber Skills Live

Challenges are 30 mins each, vary from pen testing and digital forensics to data science and AI.

RaspberryPi

Free resources to help young people learn to code. Free training resources to help teach computing. Online events and seminars.

Cyber Champions

A not-for-profit organisation promoting awareness of best practices in digital and cyber skills to schools and community groups across the UK with local partners.

Cyber Explorers

Free interactive cyber security learning platform for younger learners to get them started.

Cisco Net Academy

Free courses in Data science, cybersecurity, computer hardware and more. Suitable for beginners.

Udemy

There are some free courses on this site on a variety of different subjects including Cyber. Useful for all abilities.

iDEA

The Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award is a programme that helps you develop digital, enterprise and employability skills for free. Learners take part in a series of challenges in order to win badges. Mini courses include coding, growth hacking, blockchain, e-safety, virtual reality, social media.

Cyber Explorers

Intermediates and above:

Immersive Labs

Provides interactive labs and challenges to build practical cybersecurity skills, covering areas like secure coding, threat detection, and incident response for beginners and intermediate learners.

Cyber Chef

A web app from GCHQ to decode data without complex tools. Encourages the exploration of data, encryption and compression.

PSHE Association. Lettering in Orange, Green, Purple and Blue

National Crime Agency

Great for E-safety. Created to help people use their cyber skills in a legal way.

Cybrary

Provides some good hands-on training, although not gamified as other platforms are. Under pricing there is a free access plan for individuals.

Microcorruption

Exploiting vulnerabilities game for beginners and above. Here is the tutorial link https://razvioverflow.github.io/microcorruption/tutorial.html Should be done with guidance if students have no other knowledge in the area.