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Career Development: The Key to Better SOC Performance
Catherine Southwick 25/08/2026

Career Development: The Key to Better SOC Performance

Analyst turnover can start to become a barrier to improving security operations because you’re having to continually rebuild capability rather than developing from within the team. The most effective SOCs create structured career pathways rather than isolated training plans, giving you and your team members a shared roadmap for progression.

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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Career Development: The Key to Better SOC Performance
Catherine Southwick 25/08/2026

Career Development: The Key to Better SOC Performance

Analyst turnover can start to become a barrier to improving security operations because you’re having to continually rebuild capability rather than developing from within the team. The most effective SOCs create structured career pathways rather than isolated training plans, giving you and your team members a shared roadmap for progression.

Meet Jamie: Centri’s Lead QA Engineer Helping Improve the User Experience
Duncan Whitley 25/08/2026

Meet Jamie: Centri’s Lead QA Engineer Helping Improve the User Experience

Jamie is Centri's Lead QA Engineer, helping make sure our websites are as bug-free as possible while providing a good user experience. Jamie speaks about his role, what he enjoys most about testing, his professional background, his ambitions, his hobbies, and what he wanted to be when he was a...

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.