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Practical Cybersecurity, Cloud & AI Security Training
Learn. Build. Practice. Prove. Get Hired.
PrimeSec Academy trains you across cybersecurity, cloud security, IAM, DevSecOps, SOC operations, GRC and AI security through structured learning paths, professional lab manuals, real projects and expert mentorship.
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- Hands-on lab manuals
- Portfolio projects
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Alex Johnson Level 12
Streak 122,450 XP
Your Progress72%
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Current Learning Path
SOC Analyst
Level 2 · Detect
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Microsoft Sentinel
Analyzing security incidents
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Recent Lab
Build a SOC Lab
Windows, Sysmon, Sentinel
In progress
Recent Achievements
Lab Master
Complete 10 labs
KQL Expert
Write 50 KQL queries
Incident Hunter
Investigate 20 incidents
Streak 12
12 days in a row
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Hands-on Lab Guides
Professional manuals that teach you to build and configure your own environments.
Career Learning Paths
Role-based tracks that take you from foundations to job-ready ability.
Portfolio Projects
Documentation, diagrams, code and repositories you can show employers.
Expert Mentorship
Paid one-on-one coaching for labs, projects, portfolio and interview prep.
Career Learning Paths
Choose your path
Role-based tracks that combine lessons, knowledge checks, labs, projects and assessments — so your learning maps to an actual job.
Self-paced
Cybersecurity Analyst
Self-paced with community support. SOC fundamentals, triage, detection basics, and IR workflows.
- Duration
- 12 weeks (self-paced)
- Commitment
- 6–8 hrs/week
Coming soon
Cloud Security Engineer
Landing zones, IAM, KMS, workload protection, and detection engineering across all three clouds.
- Duration
- 16 weeks (planned)
- Commitment
- 10–12 hrs/week
Coming soon
AI Security Engineer
Guardrails, prompt-injection defense, model governance, and platform hardening for LLM apps.
- Duration
- 16 weeks (planned)
- Commitment
- 8–12 hrs/week
Coming soon
Identity & Access Management Security Engineer
Design and operate enterprise IAM: SSO, MFA, PAM, joiner-mover-leaver, and least-privilege at scale.
- Duration
- 14 weeks (planned)
- Commitment
- 8–12 hrs/week
How PrimeSec Works
A methodology built around evidence
Passive video watching does not make you employable. Every stage of the PrimeSec method produces something you can show.
- 01
Learn
Structured lessons and knowledge checks that build real conceptual understanding, not trivia.
- 02
Practice
Guided lab manuals walk you through building and configuring environments on your own machine or cloud account.
- 03
Build
Challenge labs and projects push you to design, implement and troubleshoot with less hand-holding.
- 04
Prove
Document your work — READMEs, diagrams, configs, scripts, findings — and publish appropriate projects to GitHub.
- 05
Get Hired
Portfolio review, resume guidance, interview preparation and mentorship to turn evidence into offers.
Note on labs: PrimeSec does not provision hosted virtual machines or cloud tenants. You learn to build and configure your own environments using Hyper-V, VMware, VirtualBox, Docker, Linux or Windows VMs, Azure, AWS or Google Cloud — because building and troubleshooting the environment is part of the skill.
Specializations
Every domain that matters in modern security
Go deep in one specialization or build breadth across the stack.
- Cybersecurity Foundations
- Cloud Security
- AI Security
- IAM & Identity
- SOC & Blue Team
- DevSecOps
- Penetration Testing
- Network Security
- Data Security
- GRC & Compliance
- AI Governance
- Security Engineering
PrimeSec Labs
Professional lab manuals, not click-through simulations
Progress from guided to assisted to challenge to capstone. Each lab includes objectives, architecture, prerequisites, setup, commands, expected results, troubleshooting, evidence checkpoints and cleanup.
Guided Labs
Detailed step-by-step manuals: prerequisites, architecture, setup, commands, expected results, troubleshooting and cleanup.
Challenge Labs
Objectives, requirements and architecture with limited guidance. You solve the hard parts yourself.
Capstone Projects
Design, implement, secure, test, document and present a larger environment end-to-end.
Flagship Specialization
AI Security, taught properly
From LLM architecture and prompt injection to RAG security, agent abuse, model supply chain and AI governance — combining theory, labs and hands-on analysis.
- LLM application security
- Prompt injection & jailbreaking
- RAG and vector database security
- AI agent & MCP security
- Model supply-chain security
- Adversarial machine learning
- AI threat modeling
- OWASP for LLM applications
- MITRE ATLAS
- NIST AI RMF
- Cloud AI security (Azure, AWS, GCP)
- AI incident response & governance
Live Training & Mentorship
Learn on your own, or with an expert beside you
Self-paced subscriptions, instructor-led live classes and bootcamps, and paid one-on-one mentorship are purchased separately.
Live Classes
Instructor-led sessions with structured schedules, walkthroughs and Q&A.
See live programsMentorship
One-on-one coaching for lab troubleshooting, project review, portfolio review, career planning and interview preparation.
Request mentorshipCommunity
A professional, technical space to ask questions, share approved projects and join challenges.
Meet the community- README & project documentation
- Architecture diagrams
- Terraform, PowerShell, Python, Bash
- KQL queries & detection rules
- Policies & risk assessments
- Incident reports & threat models
Portfolio-Driven Learning
Finish with evidence, not just a completion bar
Substantial projects should be documented and, where appropriate, published to GitHub — never secrets, credentials or sensitive configuration.
Learn across key domains
Cloud Security
Azure, AWS & GCP defense
Architecture, IAM, posture
AI Security
LLM, RAG & agent security
OWASP & MITRE ATLAS
IAM & Identity
Entra ID, Okta, SSO
Zero Trust, RBAC, MFA
DevSecOps
CI/CD, IaC, containers
Shift-left, secrets, K8s
SOC & Blue Team
Detection, IR, SIEM
KQL, triage, hunting
GRC & Compliance
Policy, risk, audit
NIST, ISO, frameworks
How it works
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Secure Futures
Start your PrimeSec journey today and get access to structured content, guided labs, portfolio projects and mentorship.
- Career learning pathsStructured, role-focused
- Guided lab libraryBuild your own environment
- Completion certificateFor every path you finish
20 weeksFlagship cohort
PortfolioReal-world projects
Learning pathsRole-focused tracks
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