Free, community-driven cybersecurity learning. Practical guides for every aspiring defender, written and kept alive by volunteers.
Quality cybersecurity learning, free for everyone and powered by the people who use it
ABOUT
For eight years CyberHeaven has published practical guides for cybersecurity aspirants. Funding constraints mean we are scaling back and cutting operational costs, so CyberHeaven is now a community-driven, volunteer-contributed project. It isn’t going anywhere: we remain 100% committed to quality content, resources and learning opportunities for everyone.
Want to help keep it active and fresh? Write to cyberheavenhq@proton.me or join us on Discord.
4 values that keep CyberHeaven going
Quality content, always
Practical, accurate guides you can actually learn from. Going volunteer-led doesn’t lower the bar.
Free for everyone
No pricing, no paid courses, no paywalled paths. Everything CyberHeaven publishes is free to read and use.
Community-driven
Learners shape what comes next. The Discord is led by a community lead responsible for its reforms and restructuring.
Volunteer-powered
Community contributions keep CyberHeaven active, fresh and valuable. Anyone can write, review or help out.
TOPICS WE COVER
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OSINT
DFIR & Forensics
Malware Analysis
SOC Careers
Linux
The OSINT cycle
Investigation mindset
Intelligence vs information
Learn by doing
All interactive tools- Alert triageWork a SOC shift: read eight alerts, close the benign ones and escalate the real threats. New alerts every shift.
- Log huntFilter a real-looking server log, pin the evidence and work out how the attacker got in. Two cases.
- Shell questReview a copy of a server in a real-feeling Linux terminal. Use ls, cat, grep and find to collect five flags. A new server every game.
- Decode the layersPeel Base64, hex, URL, ROT13 and XOR layers off suspicious strings, like analysts do in CyberChef. Endless random mode.
- Real or fake link?Read addresses the way a browser does and spot the lookalike links hiding in emails and texts. New links every round.
Free places to start practising today
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