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Meet Aniqah: Centri’s Chief Product Officer
Duncan Whitley 24/09/2026

Meet Aniqah: Centri’s Chief Product Officer

Aniqah is Centri’s Chief Product Officer, leading the Product, Design, Content and Customer Support teams. She speaks about shaping product strategy, understanding customer problems, her background across product, commercial and strategy roles, what drew her to Centri, and her ambitions for building brilliant products and teams.

CPTA’s First Graduate Shares His Experience
Joanne Morley 24/09/2026

CPTA’s First Graduate Shares His Experience

Raymond Pompa has become the first person to earn the Certified Penetration Testing Associate certification. Having completed the training and practical exam, Raymond shares how CPTA provided practical, hands-on experience across web application, infrastructure and cloud penetration testing, and became a great building block as he continues to develop his...

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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.

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.

Why CISOs Invest in CSOM to Build Stronger SOC Leaders
Catherine Southwick 20/07/2026

Why CISOs Invest in CSOM to Build Stronger SOC Leaders

Discover why CISOs invest in the Certified Security Operations Manager (CSOM) certification to build stronger SOC leaders. Learn how CSOM develops leadership, operational management, performance measurement, and continuous improvement skills that help security teams become more effective and resilient.