ConDef Lite is the full Constructing Defense Path (2025 Edition) without the provided virtual labs. Instead, students are provided specific instructions on how to setup everything in your own home lab.
Price = $150 $112.50 w/ Code CYBER25
90+% of all cybersecurity jobs are defensive. So, if you want to be in the best position to join the ranks of cybersecurity professionals, you’d better set a solid technical foundation. See for yourself why John Hammond praises Constructing Defense as, “One of the flagship ways to start a career in cybersecurity“.
Buckle up, because this unique offering presents a ton of hands-on, foundational knowledge for budding SOC Analysts, Incident Responders and Cyber Threat Investigators. It’s intense, but you’ll have a blast!
Price = $150 $112.50 w/ Code CYBER25
Upgrade to the full ConDef 2025 w/ Cyber Range for only diff in cost from ConDef Lite.
The Constructing Defense Path (2025 Edition) by Anton Ovrutsky is a 3-course “Path” with a massive virtual lab teaching you everything you need to know to get into cybersecurity at a fraction of the cost of other cyber ranges and mimics a typical enterprise including cloud. Get hands-on experience with throwing attacks at it and seeing what happens from a defensive perspective in the logs and a SIEM. The newly updated ConDef 2025 adds quizzes, updated cloud content, a new section to help you better navigate the hands-on lab environment (now even bigger), and much more. But the big new addition is Splunk!
Try ConDef for yourself with 3 FREE lessons:
🔑 Credential Access on Windows Hosts – File Shares
🧨 Credential Access on Linux Hosts – Through a C2 Framework
🍪 Azure/Entra Session Hijacking via Browser Cookie Theft
Because of the cumulative nature of each course, it must be presented in one single package to make sure students don’t lose their progress in their own, dedicated virtual environment. Course #1 features an introduction to the massive, web-based lab and dives into Windows Servers and Clients including Active Directory. Course #2 showcases Linux and Kubernetes. Course #3 puts your head in the clouds with both AWS and Azure and then throws in some purple team action just to round things out.
What do I get in ConDef Lite?
Along with 100+ videos and clear click-by-click instructions, this well-organized course contains instructions on how to setup your own home lab with the massive virtual environment for you to play. We do utilize free accounts for the Cloud portion of Course #3, but we keep the setup below the threshold of costing you any money. YMMV.
Prerequisites for ConDef Lite
Although this course assumes no prior knowledge, being comfortable with general IT such as Windows, Linux, networking and virtual environments are a plus.
An environment to house the massive virtual environment, be it your own bare metal and/or cloud accounts.
