Three tiers. Seven specialisations.
One career path.
Simulation-first, outcome-driven credentials — for the practitioner at the SOC, the operative on the plant floor, and the director at the board table.
Three tiers, side by side. One signal, three characters.
Each programme below is a self-contained credential. Read them in order, or jump to the one that matches where you actually work today. The syllabus is what it says. The delivery is what it says. The fee is what it says. Everything else is context.
A visual cue: the horizon in each hero carries the same line in a different character — steady for the practitioner, acute for the specialist, governance for the board. Same signal, three distinct reads.
Certified Cyber Protocol Professional
Defend a live network with muscle memory. Ten chapters, ten simulations, one credential your SOC can trust in an incident.
A SOC engineer who reads a suspicious sign-in and can name the ATT&CK sub-technique inside a minute. A junior CISO who can brief their board on Tuesday and mean every sentence.
Ten chapters — Zero Trust, incident response, cloud identity, OWASP Top 10 (2021), phishing-resistant MFA, SEC 17 CFR §229.106 disclosure discipline. Ten graded assessments. Applied labs throughout.
Self-paced · ~40 hours over 4–6 weeks. Optional live cohort review. One-year credential validity, three-year renewal cadence with a refresher paper.
Expert Cyber Operative & Critical Infrastructure Specialist
For the operator whose adversary is a nation-state and whose failure mode is measured in physical consequence.
An OT security lead at a water utility. A red-team operator preparing for a national CERT exercise. Someone who can walk the Purdue Model on a whiteboard and defend every zone.
Fifteen chapters across IEC 62443, MITRE ATT&CK for ICS v14 kill-chain drills, Purdue-Model network segmentation, physical-consequence tabletops, and case reads from Volt Typhoon and CyberAv3ngers.
Self-paced · ~90 hours over 8–12 weeks. Optional lab-day intensive at partner ICS testbeds. One-year credential validity, three-year renewal path.
Executive Master in Strategic Cyber Governance
The credential you show a nominations committee — written for the CISO reporting up, the audit-committee chair discharging fiduciary duty, and the general counsel drafting the disclosure.
The CISO who can present cyber-risk to a board in the language of oversight duty. The audit-committee chair who can chair the 17-CFR conversation with real teeth. The general counsel who has drafted a real 8-K Item 1.05.
Fifteen chapters across NIS2, DORA, and SEC 17 CFR §229.106 fluency, Caremark / Marchand oversight-duty case law, cyber-loss quantification, and two integrated board-level assessments (a board-pack and a post-incident testimony).
Hybrid · 12 months. Two residential weekends. Board simulation with sitting NEDs. Three-year credential validity — matched to the pace of regulation.
For the manager you have to email.
Seven specialisations.
Stack them onto CCPP or ECCIS.
Each specialisation is 5–7 chapters, 15–25 hours, €1,500–€2,500. Requires the base tier. Adds a named stripe on your credential — “CCPP · AI/ML Security”, “ECCIS · OT Incident Command”.
Don't hold the base tier yet? Every stripe is available as a bundle with its base — one purchase, 10% off the combined total.
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