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How Offensive Cybersecurity Training Strengthens SOC Teams
Catherine Southwick 11/08/2026

How Offensive Cybersecurity Training Strengthens SOC Teams

Offensive cybersecurity training helps close the gap between understanding suspicious activity and understanding the wider attack. It gives analysts practical insight into how attacks are planned, executed and progressed, helping them strengthen threat detection, incident investigation and response.

CPTA: A Practical Pathway Into Offensive Cybersecurity
Ben Gonsalves 13/08/2026

CPTA: A Practical Pathway Into Offensive Cybersecurity

CPTA is designed to give you a structured, practical way to build offensive cybersecurity skills. You’ll work through practical labs and realistic scenarios, applying what you’re learning across infrastructure, Active Directory, web applications and AWS environments.

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CPTA: A Practical Pathway Into Offensive Cybersecurity
Ben Gonsalves 13/08/2026

CPTA: A Practical Pathway Into Offensive Cybersecurity

CPTA is designed to give you a structured, practical way to build offensive cybersecurity skills. You’ll work through practical labs and realistic scenarios, applying what you’re learning across infrastructure, Active Directory, web applications and AWS environments.

How Offensive Cybersecurity Training Strengthens SOC Teams
Catherine Southwick 11/08/2026

How Offensive Cybersecurity Training Strengthens SOC Teams

Offensive cybersecurity training helps close the gap between understanding suspicious activity and understanding the wider attack. It gives analysts practical insight into how attacks are planned, executed and progressed, helping them strengthen threat detection, incident investigation and response.

Why Cybersecurity Is More About Thinking Than Tools
Ben Gonsalves 04/08/2026

Why Cybersecurity Is More About Thinking Than Tools

Discover why critical thinking, curiosity, and problem solving are some of the most valuable skills you can bring to cybersecurity. Learn how to develop a cybersecurity mindset, build practical skills through hands-on labs and structured training, and take your first steps towards a blue team or SOC analyst career.

What Does a Blue Team Career Look Like?
Ben Gonsalves 30/07/2026

What Does a Blue Team Career Look Like?

Learn what blue team work involves, the common roles you'll encounter, the skills that matter most, and practical steps to begin your career in 2026. Discover why blue team is one of the most common entry points into cybersecurity and how BTL1 helps build practical defensive security skills.

Developing Advanced Investigation Skills with BTL2
Catherine Southwick 28/07/2026

Developing Advanced Investigation Skills with BTL2

Learn why SOC analysts need advanced investigation skills to correlate evidence, reconstruct attack timelines, and understand the full scope of an incident. Discover how BTL2 helps experienced SOC analysts build practical investigation skills across Windows, Linux, network, cloud, and enterprise environments through realistic, hands-on investigations.

Meet Gareth: Centri Principal Content Engineer
Duncan Whitley 24/07/2026

Meet Gareth: Centri Principal Content Engineer

Gareth Baddams is Centri's Principal Content Engineer, who leads development of practical cybersecurity training. Garath speaks about his role, his favorite parts of his role, his professional background, his hobbies, and what he wanted to become when he was a kid.