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Our Approach

How ProjectSecurity Works

Build real-world security homelabs. Break them to understand the threats. Secure them like the pros. Walk away with a portfolio that proves you can do the work.

Who This is For

Interested in Cybersecurity?

Whether you're just starting out, switching careers, or leveling up on your own, we are here to build your cyber career.

Students Getting Started

Career Seekers

Upskilling Enthusiasts

The Method

The Ethos in Everything We Do...

Build

Build your essential tech skills through homelabs that mirror the environments you'll work in.

Break

Break them to understand how attackers think, move, and exploit real weaknesses.

Secure

Secure them with the hardening, detection, and defense strategies professionals use in the field.

The Roadmap

The Homelab That Gets You The Skills

Begin your journey with a guided learning path. Each Core Section builds on the last. No One Off Videos. No Temporary Labs. Follow the path from your first enterprise network to securing your own web threat intelligence app that you build.

  1. 1
    Infrastructure & Enterprise 101 course graphic
    E101

    Infrastructure & Enterprise 101

    Build a full enterprise network: Active Directory, DNS/DHCP, Wazuh SIEM, and a complete attack simulation.

  2. 2
    Networks & Attacks 101 course graphic
    NA101

    Networks & Attacks 101

    Build & Scale A CORP Network: Docker Containers, pfSense + Suricata, and Layer 2–7 attacks and defenses.

  3. 3
    Cloud & Attacks 101 course graphic
    CA101

    Cloud & Attacks 101

    Build Your Own Production Network in AWS: IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, Lambda — attack misconfigs and defend with detection rules.

  4. 4
    Web & Attacks 101 course graphic
    WA101

    Web & Attacks 101

    Build + Deploy a Real World Web App: OWASP Top 10, SQL injection, XSS, auth flaws, API security, and hands-on web defense.

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Outcomes

Your Path To A Portfolio & Job-Ready Cyber Skills

Learn The Foundations

Start from zero and build a rock-solid base. Understand how networks, operating systems, the cloud, and web apps actually fit together, with every concept explained as you build it. No prior experience required.

Get Hands-On, Not Just Theory

Everything you learn is hands-on. Skip the endless slideshows. You'll provision real machines, launch live attacks, and deploy the defenses that stop them, using the exact tools and workflows security teams rely on every day.

Build A Complete, End-to-End Portfolio Project

Finish with a real, deployed web application you can demo in interviews and link straight from your resume. You will build this live, customizable Web Threat Intelligence Dashboard. Tangible proof to showcase what you are capable of.

Technologies you'll use

Docker
Kali Linux
Burp Suite
AWS
Linux
Windows
PostgreSQL
Python
pfSense
Suricata
Wazuh
Ubuntu
Git
Active Directory
Docker
Kali Linux
Burp Suite
AWS
Linux
Windows
PostgreSQL
Python
pfSense
Suricata
Wazuh
Ubuntu
Git
Active Directory
The Community

Testimonials

"You are the GOAT by the way, this project alone got me a co-op."
Jang O. Jang O.
"One of the best courses in building your own cybersecurity home lab! If you want hands-on skills in ethical hacking, forensics, and incident response, you need a home lab, a safe space to experiment, break things, and learn by doing. You will gain skills that you will not find in most courses! This course teaches you how to build an AD lab, setting up and using tools like Wazuh, Security Onion, MailHog, etc., and also simulating and detecting the attack."
Husam Shbib Husam Shbib
"I am starting a new job at Arctic Wolf as a Triage Security Analyst. I recently completed this project from Grant Collins. It's really well organized and explained, and available for free. Cyber projects and content created by Grant Collins were also really helpful in getting hands on with a wide range of tools. Thank you!"
Joseph Howard Joseph Howard
Are You Ready to Build?

Build the homelab that builds your career.

Everything you need to go from zero to a complete, hireable skill set — start to finish.

  • 4 Complete Homelab Builds: Enterprise, Network, Cloud & Web.
  • Monthly Meetups
  • A Deployed, Resume-Ready Capstone Project
  • Step-By-Step Guides Plus Video Walkthroughs
  • Lifetime Access & Future Modules
  • Resume & Portfolio Toolkit
  • Beginner Friendly. No Experience Required.
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All tiers redirect to learn.projectsecurity.io to register and sign up for your CourseStack account.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is this made for? And Are There Any Prerequisites?
Any level is welcomed. The content is best suited for beginners and intermediate-level practitioners who are looking to level-up. It is assumed you have a basic knowledge of computers.
Once I sign up, what happens?
You will receive an email to register for our backend learning platform, CourseStack, with the labs loaded in from the tier of your choice, from there you can log in and start labbing!
Is this platform free?
Yes, this platform is free. Free forever. We have a Lab Builder Career Bundle, Solo Builder, and Hybrid Bundles for additional features. This includes extra course modules, cloud-hosted labs, exclusive Discord community, and monthly community meetups.
How can I get more involved?
ProjectSecurity has an active community of professionals with monthly meetups. Join our Community on Discord. Come say Hello!
Do you offer technical support?
Help is offered if you do encounter issues. We do recommend starting with a search first. More detail is inside the program.
What are minimum computer specifications needed?
We recommend at least 8 GBs of RAM (Ideally 16GBs+) and 200 GBs of storage. Supported for all major OS platforms, Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Should I use VirtualBox or VMware Workstation Player?
Either hypervisor works. We use VirtualBox (VBox) during the core sections. VMware Worksation Player also works. It is also free and more mainstream.
Is the Homelab Builder Worth it?
The Homelab Builder Tier is best suited if you are a student looking to level-up your career prospects, a security enthusiast looking to level-up your technical skills, or an individual who likes anything homelabbing. Or all the above. Start with the Associate Tier to see what you think.
Is any coding knowledge required for the threat intelligence application?
No. We live in the AI era, we can create a majority of our front-end web application code with AI. Exercise files are provided for the web application, we encourage you to customize it with your AI agent of choice, such as Claude Code or Cursor.
If you had one cyber super power, what would it be?
Queue the ability to always... "We are In." the system.

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