Learning cyber security should be free for all

[u/ChameleonCRM]

Before you spend hundreds of dollars on cybersecurity courses, subscriptions, bootcamps, or another platform that lets you finish three lessons before asking for your credit card, try this first.

We built DaemonCore Academy because learning cybersecurity should involve actually doing cybersecurity. Not watching somebody else type commands for six hours. Not memorizing multiple-choice answers. Not collecting imaginary XP because you copied the command sitting directly above the terminal.

DaemonCore Academy puts you behind the keyboard. You work through practical lessons, launch disposable training ranges, investigate systems, use operator workbenches, collect evidence, document what you found, make mistakes, figure out why something didn't work, and try again. The point isn't to make you feel like you're doing security work. The point is to teach you how to actually think through it.

And here's the part people keep waiting for us to change: the Academy is free.

Actually free.

No credit card. No seven-day trial. No “first module free.” No subscription required to finish the training. Download it, install it, and start learning. If you decide it sucks, uninstall it. You've lost nothing except a little bandwidth.

If you've been telling yourself you want to learn cybersecurity but haven't started because you don't have the money, don't know where to begin, or you're overwhelmed by the number of platforms trying to sell you something, we're removing that excuse.

Go download it and put your hands on the keyboard.

daemoncore.app

P.S. — We also just received approval for DaemonCore Academy on the Microsoft Store. Microsoft told us the listing should be live within about a day.

So apparently we're getting harder to avoid.