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Constructing Defense 2025

90+% of all cybersecurity jobs are defensive. So, if you want to be in the best position to join the ranks of cybersecurity professionals, you’d better set a solid technical foundation. See for yourself why John Hammond praises Constructing Defense as One of the flagship ways to start a career in cybersecurity.

You Passed Security+… Great! Tick that HR box.
But can you pass a technical interview?

ConDef is a 3-course ‘Path’ with a massive hands-on virtual lab that teaches you everything you need to know to get into cybersecurity. You get your own dedicated virtual environment that mimics a typical enterprise including cloud. You’ll get hands-on experience with throwing attacks at it and seeing what happens from a defensive perspective. ConDef 2025 adds quizzes, updated cloud content, a new section to help you better navigate the hands-on lab environment (now even bigger), and much more. But the big new addition is Splunk!

Buckle up, because this unique offering presents a ton of hands-on, foundational knowledge to prep you for a successful career in cybersecurity. It’s intense, but you’ll have a blast!

20% Launch Discount Expires April 30th!

Price = $400 (20% Off) $500

Try ConDef for yourself with 3 FREE lessons:

🔑 Credential Access on Windows Hosts – File Shares
🧨 Credential Access on Linux Hosts – Through a C2 Framework
🍪 Azure/Entra Session Hijacking via Browser Cookie Theft

ConDef is an interconnected, open playground that sets a solid foundation for budding Jr SOC Analysts, Incident Responders and Cyber Threat Investigators. Because of the cumulative nature of each course, it must be presented in one single package to make sure students don’t lose their progress in their own, dedicated virtual environment. Course #1 features an introduction to the massive, web-based lab and dives into Windows Servers and Clients including Active Directory. Course #2 showcases Linux and Kubernetes. Course #3 puts your head in the clouds with both AWS and Azure and then throws in some purple team action just to round things out.

What do I get?

Along with 100+ videos and clear click-by-click instructions, this well-organized course contains a massive virtual environment for you to play. All virtual machines are web-based, so no need for your own hardware or home lab (although it’s always encouraged to have a home lab!). We do utilize free accounts for the Cloud portion of Course #3, but we keep the setup below the threshold of costing you any money. YMMV.

Just Hacking Training (JHT) - Constructing Defense Path (2025 Edition) - Lab Diagram
Constructing Defense – Lab Diagram
Just Hacking Training (JHT) - Constructing Defense Path (2025 Edition) - System Group
Constructing Defense – Virtual Environment

Prerequisites for Constructing Defense (ConDef)

Although this course assumes no prior knowledge, being comfortable with general IT such as Windows, Linux, networking and virtual environments are a plus.

Because everything is provided for you, you need nothing other than a computer, Internet access and your brain!


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