The Grid → Cloud Heights
CyberFoundations
Field-level networking and cloud reasoning, taught through situations a junior practitioner actually walks into.
Flagship · Live Mission · Week 6
From The Grid to Cloud Heights
Carry Week 5 networking fundamentals into real cloud troubleshooting: eight scenes that move from a service block in The Grid to an incident briefing at the Cloud Heights campus.
- Decide whether a destination is reached locally or through the gateway.
- Match a support question to the tool that can actually answer it.
- Work a troubleshooting ladder from dependency, not preference.
- Separate reachability from permission, and observation from assumption.
- State a conclusion — and its open questions — that the evidence supports.
8 scenes · ~75 min · no timers
The rest of the program
Module 1
Systems & Security Groundwork
Weeks 1–4. Interactive demonstrations are being added.
Weeks 1–4
Groundwork
Planned
Demonstrations for these weeks are queued behind Module 2.
Module 2
Networking & Cloud Foundations
Where the Grid meets Cloud Heights. Week 6 carries the flagship live mission.
Week 5
The Grid
Planned
Addressing, local delivery and the gateway, seen from a technician's desk.
Week 6
Cloud Heights
In Development
Week 5 fundamentals carried into a real cloud troubleshooting investigation.
Live MissionAvailable~75 minFrom The Grid to Cloud HeightsCarry Week 5 networking fundamentals into real cloud troubleshooting: eight scenes that move from a service block in The Grid to an incident briefing at the Cloud Heights campus.Open experienceWeek 7
Firewalls, Security Groups & Network Defense
Available
Rule priority, least privilege and paired testing, worked as a live security incident at the Cloud Heights Guard Post.
Live MissionAvailable~75 minCloud Heights Guard Post — Security Incident Strategy SessionSeven scenes at the Cloud Heights Guard Post: work incident CH-8080 from an incomplete ticket to a defensible operations statement, using rule priority, least privilege, and paired positive/negative testing.Open experience
Module 3
Practical Cryptography
What protects the information itself once access control is not enough — and how to check who you are sending it to.
Week 8
The Vault Exchange
Available
Encryption, hashing, digital signatures and public-key authentication, worked across one incident report at four stations.
Interactive ScenarioAvailable~14 minVault Exchange Crypto WorkbenchOne incident report, four stations. See how encryption, hashing, digital signatures and public-key authentication each solve a different security problem — in plain language, with no timers and no penalties.Open experienceWeek 9
The Trust Authority
Available
Certificates, trust chains and warnings: can Ivy trust this connection? Four stations from reading a certificate to stating the limits of a pass.
Interactive ScenarioAvailable~34 minThe Trust AuthorityIvy protected the incident report last week. Now she has to send it to the real Vault Exchange service — and the service hands her a certificate. Four stations: read the badge, follow the chain, investigate the warning, make the decision. No timers, no penalties, nothing graded.Open experience
Module 4
Thinking Like a Security Professional
Turning the tools of the first three modules into business judgement: what is worth protecting, what could go wrong, and what to do first.
Week 10
Risk & Threats
Available
Cloud Heights Family Clinic: investigate five rooms, build risk scenarios from evidence, then rate, prioritise and recommend controls. Two labs, about 45–60 minutes each.
Week 11
IAM & Active Directory: Who Gets Access to What?
Available
Cloud Heights Identity Center: a browser-based simulated AD/IAM environment. Six connected missions, from tracing identities to the IAM Investigation Report (Deliverable 4). Sign-in required; no VM setup.
Week 12
Communications Capstone
Available
The final CyberFoundations week. Turn your own Week 11 IAM Investigation Case File into a Technical Incident Report plus a written Executive Summary or a 2–3 minute video Executive Briefing (Portfolio Deliverable 5).