Classroom
The classroom holds the 20 built Virtus Cyber Academy courses, plus early material for ADV-102 and CON-101, which are still in development. Each course landing lists its weekly modules, labs, and capstone packet. Interactive embeds (the nine Phase-1 visualizers) appear at the points in the curriculum that introduce them.
Foundations
Where every track starts. Numbers, bytes, hex, and the systems thinking the rest of the program builds on.
FND-101
Pipeline entry course. No prerequisites beyond basic algebra. ~105 hours total across 12 weeks. Audience: high-school and homeschool students, career changers, curious adults.
FND-102
Foundation Stream, Belt 1. Sequel to FND-101. No hardware kit required. ~125 hours total across 14 weeks plus a presentation week. Audience: students who have a model of the machin
SPK-101
Gateway / Pre-CSA-101 motivational on-ramp. No-prereq introduction to game emulators, ROM hacking, and the 6502 historical anchor, all on a laptop, no hardware required. ~50 hours
Hardware
Circuits, microcontrollers, and the physical substrate digital logic actually runs on.
Networking
Packets, protocols, and the wire-format reading skills that anchor everything from blue-team detection to red-team C2.
NET-101
Network-track entry course. Prerequisite: FND-101 (or equivalent shell and hex-literacy). ~132 hours total across 12 weeks. Audience: FND-101 graduates, career changers, adults wit
NET-201
NET-201 pays the forward promises NET-101 made. Every protocol NET-101 introduced at first-encounter depth arrives here at production-grade inspection depth. A student who finishes
NET-301
NET-301 takes the NET-201 graduate -- a student who can architect a 30-employee network, run its routing protocols, sign its DNS zones, and monitor traffic with Suricata signatures
Security
Threat modeling, cryptography, and the security-mindset shift from how-it-works to how-it-fails.
Penetration Testing
Recon, exploitation, and the disciplined offensive methodology that turns curiosity into findings.
Reverse Engineering
Disassembly, dynamic analysis, and the firmware-archaeology skills the SB6141 capstone exercises end-to-end.
AI & Agentic Security
LLM and agent attack surfaces: prompt injection, tool abuse, and the evaluation discipline to defend them.
AI-101
AI-101 gives the security practitioner a working mental model of LLMs as attack surface, builds the vocabulary to read OWASP LLM and ASI advisories fluently, and delivers hands-on
AI-201
AI-201 moves from individual-vulnerability awareness (AI-101's OWASP LLM Top 10 frame) to production-pentest discipline. Students scope agentic-system engagements, identify trust b
AI-301
AI-301 is the capstone of the AI track and the bridge between the academy's two security strands. Students arrive having built a complete computing stack from NAND to OS (CSA-110),
RF & Wireless
Radio from first principles: SDR, over-the-air protocol capture, and the wireless attack chains built on both.
RF-201
WIR-101 closed at the wireless-pentest engagement. Every modulation, every frame format, every spread-spectrum trick it named was introduced and left. RF-201 pays the bills. Modula
RF-301
RF-201 closed at the protocol-RE engagement. RF-301 takes the same student to carrier scale, satellite scale, cellular scale, and adversary scale. Advanced DSP at the depth a worki
WIR-101
Wireless is everywhere and mostly invisible. The course teaches licensed wireless pen testers how to characterize and test the wireless security posture of a client environment --
Adversarial Capstones
Full-chain engagements against real targets. Everything the other tracks taught, run end to end.
ADV-101
Belt-4 deep-technical. ~125 hours across 13 weeks. The course where students take one CVE, reproduce it under authorization, and ship a CERT/CC-grade tool plus disclosure report. P
ADV-102 first draft
ADV-102 is the LLM-era variant of ADV-101's CVE-to-Tool pedagogy. The anchor target is CVE-2025-65106 (LangChain Jinja2 SSTI): reproduce it end to end, build a detection tool, and
Architecture
Build a CPU. Then build a compiler. Then build an OS. Then watch a program you wrote run on FPGA silicon you wired.
CSA-110
You built a 6502 on an FPGA. You wrote the toolchain that targets it. CSA-110 runs the same arc again, but the chip is a 32-bit RISC you design from scratch, the toolchain targets
CSA-201
CSA-110 closed at the system line: a Tang Primer 25K running an OS the student wrote, on a CPU the student synthesized. Every layer the chapter omitted was named. CSA-201 pays thos
CON-101 first draft
CON-101 points the FPGA methodology at the retro-computing community's soft cores. Inherit NES, Game Boy, and SNES cores, study their authors' choices, modify them, and finish by s
Topical Modules
Single-week evergreen-after-disclosure modules too small for a full course track. Current CVEs, technique clinics, and cross-track micro-modules.
Self-Check Quizzes
Four predict-then-verify quizzes are live (FND-101 numbers, NET-101 TCP handshake, SEC-101 cryptography, SPK-101 bitplanes), and more are being written. Each question pairs a prompt with an embedded Phase-1 visualizer: predict the answer by hand first, then load the matching scenario in the sandbox to verify. Progress saves to your browser via localStorage; nothing leaves your device.
About this surface
The public site at virtuscyberacademy.org stays in catalog and intro register: a student browsing publicly sees what each course is and what it teaches. The classroom you are reading now is where the actual weekly content lives.
Source markdown is in the Git repository at courses/<slug>/. The renderer that produces these pages is at courses/_pipeline/render.py.