PRACTICAL CYBERSECURITY. HUMAN-VALIDATED AI.
Think like an attacker.
Become a stronger
defender.
Build the skills to turn threat intelligence into detections—and investigations into action. Real scenarios. Hands-on labs. Expert guidance.
THE TRAINING
Learn it. Investigate it.
Put it to work.
Start with a free session or explore the practical curriculum behind our instructor-led bootcamp.
THREAT-INFORMED. AI-ASSISTED.
Blue vs. Red with AI
Follow attacker playbooks, investigate the evidence, and build detections you can validate.
Past delivery: DEF CON Training Las Vegas 2026. New dates to be announced.
35 MINCTI 101: Intelligence into Action
Connect the intelligence lifecycle, detection engineering, and AI-assisted analyst workflows. Real Jupyter notebooks, synthetic telemetry, and human validation.
FIND YOUR FOCUS
Your next skill.
Your next advantage.
Explore a guided sequence of topics, with a practical first step you can take today.
Detection & Threat Hunting
Build a baseline. Follow a hypothesis. Turn suspicious behavior into a tested detection.
Cyber Threat Intelligence
Ask better intelligence questions and connect what you learn to a defensive decision.
Investigation & Response
Connect evidence across endpoints and networks. Reconstruct the story and communicate it.
THE IGNITECYBER APPROACH
From attacker behavior
to a defensible decision.
Start with the threat.
Study the behavior behind an attack and the evidence it leaves.
Work the evidence.
Explore endpoint and network telemetry in guided lab scenarios.
Test your thinking.
Check detections and AI-assisted analysis against the underlying evidence.
Make it actionable.
Explain what happened, what you know, and what to do next.
START LEARNING, FREE
Open the playbook.
LEARN TOGETHER
Keep the conversation going.
Join the IgniteCyber Academy Discord community to connect with fellow learners, discuss cybersecurity topics, and continue the conversation around our training and free resources.
Join the IgniteCyber Academy Discord
Connect with fellow learners, discuss cybersecurity topics, and continue the conversation around our training and free resources.
Join us on Discord
Build shared skills.
Strengthen the response.
Bring your team’s challenges into the conversation. Explore training built around the investigation and detection skills you need.
Start with your team’s goals.
- •Investigating endpoint and network evidence
- •Turning threat intelligence into detections
- •Practicing collaborative incident decisions
- •Using AI with evidence and human review
We’ll discuss your audience, current skill level, preferred format, and technical environment.
Were you at the DEF CON bootcamp?
Find the archived event pages, onboarding, and setup guides.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE PRACTICE
Learn with
IgniteCyber Academy.
We connect attacker behavior with the work of the defender: understanding threats, investigating evidence, and making better decisions together.
Our approach pairs practical exercises with thoughtful use of AI. The analyst stays accountable for the conclusion.
Carlo Anez Mazurco
Instructor · CTI, Detection & AI-Assisted Defense
Practitioner and educator focused on cyber threat intelligence, detection engineering, and responsible AI-assisted SOC workflows. Presenter of CTI 101 and instructor of the Blue vs. Red with AI bootcamp.
Malvika Mishra
Cyber Security Engineer · Lab Engineering & Instruction
Malvika is a Cyber Security Engineer at Cause Finder with an M.S. in Cybersecurity from the University of Maryland (2025) and GIAC GSEC and GCCC certifications. She supported lab preparation, technical delivery, and student troubleshooting as a teaching assistant for the Blue vs. Red with AI bootcamp at DEF CON Training Las Vegas 2026.
BEFORE YOU START
A few useful answers.
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