EVIDENCE-BASED HIRING

Hire-Ready Cybersecurity Professionals.

Not Resumes. Real Experience.

We ensure our candidates are "hire-ready" with professional resumes, portfolios, interview training, and hands-on experience using various platforms in our organization's production environment.

No commitment required — just tell us your stack and hiring needs.

The Challenge We're All Facing

Hiring in cybersecurity feels broken. I've talked to hundreds of hiring managers, and they all tell me the same story. Candidates interview well, the resume checks all the boxes, but when they start, there's a gap. Sometimes a big one. Meanwhile, talented career-changers who could do the job get filtered out because they don't have the "right" keywords or years of experience. It's frustrating for everyone.

The Resume Problem

Everyone lists the same tools and certifications. How do you know who can actually configure a SIEM or analyze logs without spending weeks training them?

Time & Resources

Your team doesn't have bandwidth to onboard someone who needs months of hand-holding. You need people who can contribute from week one, not month six.

Hidden Potential

Some of the best security professionals come from non-traditional backgrounds. But they get filtered out by automated systems before anyone sees what they can do.

The old way

Resumes, certifications, and interviews that can't verify real skills.

Our approach

We solve this with one principle: evidence over claims. Every candidate proves their skills in a live production environment.

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VERIFIED CAPABILITIES

What "Evidence-Based" Actually Means

Every candidate delivers a digital portfolio proving hands-on execution in production-grade environments. No embellishment. No keyword stuffing.

GITHUB VERIFIED

Vulnerability Scanning and Remediation with Tenable

Students train on an enterprise-licensed Tenable instance to perform vulnerability scanning and programmatic remediation across both Windows and Linux environments. All BASH and PowerShell remediation scripts are documented and maintained in GitHub. Training goes beyond the technical — every student also develops the soft skills of vulnerability management, including risk communication, prioritization, and stakeholder reporting.

ARCHITECTURE VALIDATED

Hands-On Experience in Azure

All students operate within a shared Azure tenant — just like in a real corporate environment. Everyone has read access across all subscriptions, and each student holds admin rights over their own resource group to provision virtual machines for sandboxing and honeypotting. The environment is intentionally not isolated: permissions mirror real-world settings, and students are trained to work responsibly and stay mindful of shared resources. No student-induced major incidents to date.

NIST COMPLIANT

Professional Documentation

Every student produces documentation that meets real enterprise standards. Incident reports follow the NIST 800-61 framework, STIG hardening checklists cover both Windows and Linux systems, and vulnerability remediation plans are structured around risk prioritization. The goal isn't just technical accuracy — students are trained to create work that is clear, audit-ready, and immediately usable by a security team from day one.

OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Live Threat Hunts & CTFs

Students conduct real telemetry analysis using KQL in Microsoft Sentinel, our production SIEM. Twice a month, threat hunts put candidates through live attack scenarios with actual prize competitions on the line. Log sources span Defender for Endpoint (EDR), email telemetry, cloud applications, and externally ingested feeds. To claim one of the 10 prize spots per hunt, students must submit a detailed threat report documenting their findings and reasoning — creating a shared learning resource for the entire cohort.

3-12 Months

From beginner to hire-ready in our production environment

Enterprise Tools

Tenable, Defender, Sentinel, Azure — the stack you already use

Real Operations

Not labs. Not sims. Live vulnerabilities and active threat hunting.

BEYOND THE TECHNICAL

The question you're really asking
"Will they fit on my team?"

Technical skills are table stakes. Here's what separates candidates who actually contribute from those who need hand-holding.

20+

Peer Assists

They Explain, Not Just Answer

Students help each other troubleshoot by walking through their thinking, sharing documentation links, and explaining the why — not just the fix. I've seen students rack up 20, 30, 40+ assists helping others debug Sentinel queries or fix broken playbooks.

→ They can explain technical concepts clearly and help teammates grow.

Weekly

Live Hunts

They Stay Calm When It Counts

Every week, students drop into live threat hunting scenarios. Unknown attacker. Real telemetry. Time limit. They're working in channels with 50+ other students, sharing findings in real-time, challenging each other's assumptions, documenting as they go — with actual prize money on the line.

→ They've practiced incident response under pressure and communicate findings clearly.

Self

Directed

They Figure It Out

Nobody holds their hand through building a SOC environment. They read documentation. They break things. They ask for help when they're truly stuck — but only then. I've watched students spend weekends rebuilding entire Azure environments from scratch because they wanted to understand it better. Not for credit. Because they cared.

→ They take initiative and troubleshoot independently rather than waiting for instructions.

THE JOSH STANDARD

How We Build Combat-Ready Professionals

Founded by Josh Madakor (213K+ YouTube subscribers), Cyber Range rejects the "learn theory, pray for jobs" model. We train in live production environments using the same tools your team uses today.

Validation

• Real Azure/AWS tenant with 1,000+ resource groups
• Admin rights over personal resource group
• VM provisioning for sandboxing & honeypotting
• No simulations — actual enterprise environments

Compliance

• NIST 800-61 incident reports & documentation
• STIG hardening for Windows & Linux systems
• Vulnerability remediation plans with risk prioritization
• Documentation standards matching Fortune 500 SOPs

Combat

• Bi-weekly threat hunts with real prize competitions
• Live KQL analysis in Microsoft Sentinel
• Timed incident response under real pressure
• Peer-reviewed write-ups & post-mortems

Leadership

• GitHub portfolio curation & optimization
• Technical interview preparation
• Ongoing mentorship & post-placement support
• Salary negotiation coaching based on market data

We Want to Hear From You

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