Cyber Academy

Free awareness training plus a curated catalog of external courses — aligned to your assessment.

Free for all Aegis users

Build a human firewall — start with the fundamentals.

Six bite-sized modules that take the average employee under an hour and measurably reduce phishing click-through, credential reuse and reportable privacy incidents. Regionalised for Australia and New Zealand.

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Free foundational library

Assign to every employee. Tracked against your Human Risk score.

6 modules · ~65 min total
Foundational

Phishing & Social Engineering

Spot lures, BEC, MFA fatigue and QR-code phishing aimed at AU/NZ teams.

12 min
Foundational

Passwords, MFA & Passkeys

Why MFA matters, where it fails, and how passkeys close the gap.

10 min
Foundational

Data Handling & Privacy

Privacy Act 1988 (AU) & Privacy Act 2020 (NZ) basics for everyday work.

15 min
Foundational

Safe Email & Collaboration

Attachments, links, shared drives, Teams/Slack hygiene.

8 min
Foundational

Incident Reporting

What to report, to whom, and how fast — OAIC NDB & NZ NCSC pathways.

9 min
Foundational

Working From Anywhere

Home Wi-Fi, public networks, BYOD and travel security essentials.

11 min

Curated external course library

Free and certified courses from Google, AWS, Microsoft, MIT, Harvard, ISC2 and more — filterable by NIST CSF function and aligned to your assessment gaps.

14 courses match
Google
Cert
Paid

Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate

End-to-end SOC analyst pathway with SIEM, Python and Linux fundamentals.

Protect
Detect
Respond & Recover
Foundational · ~6 monthsOpen
AWS
Free

AWS Cloud Security Essentials

IAM, KMS, GuardDuty and shared-responsibility model on AWS.

Protect
Identify
Intermediate · 8 hrsOpen
AWS
Cert
Paid

AWS Certified Security – Specialty (prep)

Workload protection, incident response and data protection at scale.

Protect
Detect
Govern
Advanced · 40+ hrsOpen
Microsoft
Cert
Free

Microsoft SC-900: Security, Compliance & Identity

Zero-trust, Entra ID, Purview and Defender fundamentals.

Govern
Identify
Protect
Foundational · 10 hrsOpen
Microsoft
Free

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (Ninja)

Hunting, automated investigation and EDR tuning.

Detect
Respond & Recover
Advanced · 20 hrsOpen
MIT OCW
Free

MIT 6.858 Computer Systems Security

Threat models, secure design and exploit techniques from MIT EECS.

Protect
Identify
Advanced · ~36 hrsOpen
Harvard (edX)
Free

CS50's Introduction to Cybersecurity

Harvard's plain-English intro for non-engineers — phishing, passwords, privacy.

Human
Protect
Foundational · 10 hrsOpen
ISC2
Cert
Free

ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)

Free training + exam under ISC2's One Million Certified in Cybersecurity initiative.

Govern
Protect
Respond & Recover
Foundational · ~20 hrsOpen
Cisco Networking Academy
Free

Cisco Introduction to Cybersecurity

Self-paced primer on threats, attacks and careers.

Human
Identify
Foundational · 6 hrsOpen
IBM SkillsBuild
Free

IBM Cybersecurity Analyst

SOC workflows, threat intel and incident response with hands-on labs.

Detect
Respond & Recover
Intermediate · ~40 hrsOpen
Fortinet
Cert
Free

Fortinet NSE 1–3: Cybersecurity Awareness

Free awareness ladder covering threat landscape and defensive tech.

Human
Identify
Foundational · ~8 hrsOpen
OpenLearn (Open University)
Free

Introduction to Cyber Security

Eight-week UK National Cyber Security Centre-certified primer.

Human
Protect
Foundational · 24 hrsOpen
SANS Cyber Aces
Free

SANS Cyber Aces Online

Operating systems, networking and system administration foundations for security.

Protect
Detect
Foundational · ~15 hrsOpen
CISA
Free

CISA Incident Response Training

US-CISA incident handling and ransomware playbook training.

Respond & Recover
Detect
Intermediate · Self-pacedOpen

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