Certification pathways and the Hexcore Arena

Cybersecurity training you play, not watch.

Pathways from first principles to practitioner, taught inside a live environment where every exercise is a real system to break into and defend.

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The pathway

From a first command line to a working practitioner.

One route, taken in stages. Join at any of them: the learner who starts at nine is on the same road as the one who starts at thirty.

  1. 01

    Youth

    Ages 9 to 16

    Foundations

    • Cyber awareness
    • Terminal
    • Networks
    • First CTF

    Outcome A CTF solved

  2. 02

    Tertiary

    Poly, ITE, university

    Practice

    • Ethical hacking
    • Pentesting
    • OSINT
    • Crypto
    • Reversing
    • Competition CTF

    Outcome Competition record

  3. 03

    Adult

    Career starters and switchers

    Practitioner

    • Offensive security
    • Blue team
    • Detection and response
    • Live SOC
    • Certification

    Outcome Certified practitioner

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What we actually teach

The ground a practitioner has to cover.

The stages above are the route. These are the subjects that fill them, and a learner meets most of them more than once, at rising difficulty.

  • Cyber awareness

    Phishing, passwords and the habits that stop an incident starting, for people whose job is not security.

  • Networking

    How traffic actually moves, and every place along the way it can be watched or interfered with.

  • Penetration testing

    Finding the way in, methodically, on systems the learner is authorised to attack.

  • OSINT

    What the open internet already knows about a person, a company or a supply chain.

  • Cryptography

    How data is protected in transit and at rest, and the ways that protection is broken in practice.

  • Reverse engineering

    Taking a binary apart to work out what it does when nobody will tell you.

  • Blue team

    Detection, monitoring and response: the side that has to be right every single time.

  • Digital forensics

    Reconstructing what happened from what the machine kept, in a way that holds up afterwards.

Engage with the Hexcore Arena

An All-in-One Training Platform for Technical Skills Training

Innovative Game-based Curriculum

No confidence? Don't Worry

Start from interactive gameplay to learn fundamentals topics. No stress, all fun, make learning engaging

  • Mainly used in Hextech Academy

Practical-first Training

Easily step into the "real stuff" - real practical training labs and projects when you are ready

  • Build towards technical skill certifications
  • Engage in projects across Cybersecurity, AI Automation and Digital Entrepreneurship

Engage in National Competitions, Get Certified

Build your portfolio through national competitions and our Certification Pathway

  • Build towards technical skill certifications
  • Engage in projects across Cybersecurity, AI Automation and Digital Entrepreneurship

Government-backed

Two national programmes chose us.

Not a testimonial and not a logo on a wall. Both of these are public programmes with public criteria, and both of them run on curriculum we wrote.

  • Infocomm Media Development Authority

    IMDA LEARN Roadmap

    The only cybersecurity vendor funded under it.

    Delivered with EC-Council, which puts an international certification body behind the curriculum. Any primary school in Singapore can draw on the programme.

  • CSA

    CSA Youth Cyber Exploration Programme

    Main curriculum and technology partner.

    The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore’s national programme for introducing students to the field. We write what is taught and we run the platform it is taught on.

Ready to start your cyber journey?

Cohorts run for schools, polytechnics and companies across Singapore and the region. Tell us the ages and the numbers and we will come back with a shape.

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