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.
BTL1 and CPTA are both practical, hands-on certifications, but they're designed with different goals in mind. The Blue Team Level...
Analyst turnover can start to become a barrier to improving security operations because you’re having to continually rebuild capability rather...
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...
Meet Jo Morley, Centri’s Marketing Director, who leads campaigns, content, and growth initiatives across B2B and B2C. She shares her passion for practical learning, the energy of a fast-growing company, and how her 30+ years of marketing experience helps position Centri for its next stage of development.
Breaking into cybersecurity can feel overwhelming when most certifications expect experience before you’ve even started. BTL1 takes a different approach, focusing on hands-on defensive security skills and real-world SOC scenarios designed for beginners. This post breaks down what BTL1 teaches, who it’s best suited for, and whether it’s the right...
Locked Shields is as close as it gets to a real-world cyber war without it actually happening. This post breaks down what it’s like to support NATO’s largest live-fire exercise, the scenarios we built, and what training at that scale really looks like when pressure, complexity, and realism all come...
SOC metrics like alerts triaged and threats detected only tell part of the story, especially in financial services where performance is measured in risk, exposure, and business impact. This article explores how to reframe key metrics such as MTTR, containment time, and risk reduction to better align with financial outcomes,...
Meet Jess (Jessica Ryder), Centri’s HR Manager, leading the HR function across recruitment, onboarding, and employee relations. She shares how she builds trusted relationships, why she joined a growing company like Centri, and what makes the varied, people-focused days so rewarding.
Often, salary is blamed for SOC churn, but in reality it often is not the primary reason SOC analysts leave. There can be multiple frustrations from unclear expectations to limited progression that may play a bigger role. Lets break down what some of the underlining reasons for churn are and...
