Overview
OffSec Cyber Range (OCR) offers the most realistic hands-on, in-depth labs on the market that emulate enterprise environments, allowing your team to hone their technical, mental, and tactical skills in recognising and handling real-world incidents. OCR is tightly integrated with the OffSec learning library academy, to help the learners discover and gain new skills and knowledge as they sharpen their skills in OCR.
OCR Blue ‘Defend is the perfect Blue Team environment to continually advance and develop blue team skills.
OCR Blue defensive labs complement the OCR Red attack labs, empowering your experts to effectively navigate real-world threats and elevate their digital forensics, incident handling, and advanced threat hunting skills.
From refining offensive tactics to crafting unyielding defense strategies in OCR Blue, your team will face hyper-realistic simulations and emerge as a unified force, ready to defend your digital landscape with unwavering expertise.
OCR is a simulated real-world cyber environment containing commonly seen network configurations and vulnerabilities. The labs are updated regularly with the latest exploit vectors for the offensive and defensive teams to:
- Sharpen their skills and stay up to date on the latest cyber threats
- Be confident knowing they are qualified to do their job well, in the constantly changing cyber world.
- 75+ machines
- 30+ networks
- 17 chains
- 13 single machines
Features
- Individual instances of all OCR machines
- Powered up on demand
- Enterprise Reporting
- Sort by attack types
- Access Mission Objectives
- New defensive type
Defensive Types
OCR Blue ‘Defend is the perfect Blue Team environment to continually advance and develop blue team skills. The OCR Blue defend chain of machines offered provides hands-on experience in defending against real-world cyber threats, covering critical areas, including:
- Active directory: Gain in-depth knowledge and practical skills to protect one of the most targeted assets in your network, ensuring its integrity and resilience against attacks.
- Phishing: Learn to identify, mitigate, and prevent phishing attempts, a prevalent social engineering tactic used to compromise organisations.
- Web: Develop the ability to secure web applications and services, safeguarding against web-based attacks and vulnerabilities that pose significant risks to your infrastructure.
QA is proud to be the UK official partner with Offensive Security.
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Cyber Security learning paths
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Cyber Defensive Operations learning paths
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Offensive Cyber Operations learning paths
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Offensive Security learning path
Want to boost your career in Offensive Security? View QA's learning pathway below, specially designed to give you the skills to succeed.
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How do QA’s virtual classroom courses work?
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We use the WebEx video conferencing platform by Cisco. Before you book, check that you meet the WebEx system requirements and run a test meeting (more details in the link below) to ensure the software is compatible with your firewall settings. If it doesn’t work, try adjusting your settings or contact your IT department about permitting the website.
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When will I receive my certificate?
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