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Learn it. Practice it with real people.

Certs prove you know the vocabulary. Praxexa is what comes after: hands-on exercises on a simulated SOC, then a real community on the other side of it: live war rooms, live seminars, mock interviews, a working professional who actually answers you. Real people, not another computer simulation standing in for one.

There is a floor outside the exercises too: public chat rooms in the lobby, where you talk with other career changers and the industry partners who join them, a channel of your own inside every war room for whoever is in your seat, and a seminar on the calendar most weeks with a real presenter on the other end, not a recording.

Find your path · 20 min See how the war rooms work
Skills→Experience→Opportunity

Your blueprint to becoming employer ready.

Don't just tell employers what you know. Show them what you can do.

You're not just trained. You're ready to show employers what you can do.

Don't just tell employers what you know. Show them what you can do.

A clear cybersecurity career direction
Hands-on drills completed on a real simulation
Experience in realistic workplace simulations
Projects, capstones, and technical evidence
A shareable GitHub portfolio
Certification preparation and credentials
Live interview practice with real people
An employer-ready resumeNot currently offered
Start your journey · 20 min See the 16 career tracks
16 tracksRisk & Governance, SOC, Red Team, AI Security, etc.
4 live war roomsReal people, not computer opponents
Mock interviewsWith a peer, or with a pro's real answers
Ask a ProFree, answered by working professionals
Live seminarsSomeone on stage, presenting to the room
Cert PreparationLive study hall with real people, spaced-repetition flashcards, and practice tests with performance-based items scored by exam domain

Two ways in

Risk & Governance No terminal

Risk, governance, compliance & audit, privacy, and security awareness — policy and people, not a command line.

Technical / SOC Linux & networking first

SOC, incident response, detection engineering, pentesting, cloud security, identity, and more — hands-on drills on a real simulated host.

16 career tracks in total Not sure? Take the fit check
Learn · self-paced

Hands-on drills, graded for real.

Not slides about a SOC: an actual simulated Linux host with real, seeded log files. Every command runs for real and is graded by the server, so there's no keystroke to memorize your way past.

One real host, all 16 tracks

The same simulated, graded environment underneath every track, seeded with its own realistic data instead of a generic toy sandbox.

Boring logs, on purpose

Realistic noise and benign-but-alarming decoys are the point: telling signal from noise is the actual skill the job asks of you.

Graded on what actually happened

Checks confirm the file exists, the count matches the log, the move worked, not that you typed a specific command.

Never stuck for long

Teaching material up front, hints one at a time, and the worked answer behind an honest second click when you want it.

A pass that stays passed

Retry as many times as you want. A failed attempt can never take a pass back.

Practice · live, with real people

Not a computer opponent. An actual person, at the same time as you.

Once you can pass the exercises, the war rooms are where it gets uncomfortable in the good way: real people, working the same clock, the same incident, at the same time. Nobody in the room is a script.

The lobby finds you a room

Walk in under your call sign, see who else is around and what they're heading for, and join a session instead of waiting alone.

Every seat is a real teammate

The SOC floor splits triage, investigation, and command across real people working one incident together.

You can watch before you play

Every SOC room can be spectated from outside a seat, no login-and-wait: see how a real session runs before you take a chair.

Four analysts crowded around one workstation mid-incident, one pointing at a screen while another wears a headset, with a wall of threat-map screens behind them.
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The SOC War Room. Real teammates, one incident, worked together in real time.

The four rooms

SOC War Room Defend a live incident with a real team on the floor. Real teammates · multiple seats
Red / Blue War Room Attack or defend, turn for turn, against a real opponent. Real opponent · head to head
Risk War Room Argue a risk call against the clock: accept, mitigate, escalate. Real room · no terminal
AI Security War Room Partner with a real person to break or harden a model's guardrails. Real partner · simulated model
A career changer talking through their portfolio with an interviewer, laptop open on the table between them.
Live mock interviews

Rehearsed out loud, before it counts for real.

The same real questions, asked live by real people, not a chatbot reading a script at you.

With a peerPair up: one of you runs the interviewer's script, the other answers. Then swap.
With a proAsk a Pro is where working professionals tell you what they actually ask, and why.
Solo firstA scripted interviewer runs the same questions on your own schedule, if you want a warm-up.
A student on a late-night video call with a working security professional, taking notes on a diagram while asking a question.
Live
Ask a Pro. A real working professional, on a real call, not a chatbot.
Communicate · a real community, live

This has a social side. On purpose.

Knowing the material and being able to explain it out loud, to a person, under a little pressure, are two different skills. Praxexa isn't just solo study. It's expert advice, live seminars, mock interviews, and a community of people doing the same career change you are.

A real professional, not a bot

Ask a Pro is answered by verified working security professionals. Earn a few badges and your question moves up their queue.

Live seminars, not recorded videos

Someone on the platform gets on stage and presents to the room, live. RSVP through a shared event calendar and show up when it's actually happening.

A community in the lobby

Public chat rooms, requested by students and approved by staff: a place to talk shop with whoever's around, not just study alone.

Voice only, no camera

Comfortable enough to actually try the interview practice, as many times as you want before the real one.

Straightforward pricing, nothing hidden.

Free for 30 days. Pay only when you're ready for war rooms and proof of work.

Free
Freefor 30 days

By invitation only: you'll need an access code, and it lasts 30 days.

  • All 16 career tracks
  • Career Fit Analyzer
  • Chat rooms
  • Speaker content (seminars)
Start free
Most people start here
$15 plan
$15/month

Everything free, plus:

  • GitHub exercise portfolio for employers
  • Simulation interview prep
  • War rooms (with chat feature)
Choose $15/mo
$25 plan
$25/month

Everything in the $15 plan, plus:

  • War rooms (with voice enabled)
Choose $25/mo

The GitHub exercise portfolio is a project menu at the end of every track: real work, built on your own machine or cloud account and pushed to a repo you control, so an employer has something to open besides a transcript of a training exercise.

Certifications we build study drills around.

A certificate opens the door. The skill keeps you in the room, which is what the rest of the platform is for.

Add any certification's study guide and practice test for $15 per cert, per 60 days. Available to $15 and $25 plan members.

Each window includes five timed practice tests mixing multiple-choice with performance-based items, scored by exam domain so you know exactly where to study next, flashcards with spaced repetition so what you miss keeps coming back, and a glossary that covers every certification you hold active access to, not just the one you bought.

Entry

CompTIA Security+ CompTIA Network+ SSCP Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) eJPT Blue Team Level 1

Core

CompTIA CySA+ Security Operations Analyst (SC-200) GCIH CompTIA PenTest+ OSCP CISA CRISC CGRC Identity and Access Administrator (SC-300) Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500) AWS Certified Security, Specialty GCFA CIPP/US GICSP

Advanced

CISSP CISM CCSP AIGP (AI Governance Professional)

Stop guessing where to start.

Twenty minutes tells you which of the 16 tracks actually fits, then real people are waiting on the other side of the exercises.

Take the fit check See the war rooms