Intrusion Academy exists because the way most analysts are trained leaves gaps: in foundations, in method, and in how deeply they study. Each course is built to close them, from how the system works to how you reason through an intrusion on it.
Not one gap. These are the ones we see again and again in new and working analysts.
Analysts learn to click through a tool before they know what it is reading. It works until the tool changes, or the attacker steps around it.
We start one layer lower: the process, the registry key, the log line. Then the tool stops being magic.
Networking, operating systems and how Windows really behaves get skipped as "basics". Every investigation later stands on exactly those basics.
Fundamentals are taught as the core, not the warm-up, with the problem each one solved.
Many analysts collect artefacts and hope a story appears. Nobody taught them how to form a hypothesis, test it, and know when to stop.
Every course teaches an analysis method: what to ask first, where to look, and how to prove it.
Short videos and cheat sheets give the feeling of knowing. They do not survive a real incident at 3 a.m.
Reading before each session, homework after, and parts you study alone before you ask.
Courses keep teaching the same old samples while real intrusions moved on years ago.
Every attack you study happened recently, in cases we worked or in investigations published by trusted sources.
What the book says and what a real SOC does are often different, and new analysts find out alone.
Lessons are written by people who do the job, and show you both the book and the floor.
Someone willing to work hard. A fresh analyst with no background, or a working analyst who learned the tools before the concepts and feels the gap.
If you want the fastest certificate, we are not it, and we would rather tell you before you pay.
IR-200 is the first course, not the only one. More are being written across the tracks: detection engineering, threat hunting, threat intelligence and Windows internals.
Other instructors will join with the same passion, and they teach to the same standards. Every course, whoever writes it, answers to them.
Written by people who do the job.
Founder, threat detection & response lead
Ahmed leads threat detection and response engagements at an Egyptian security service provider. He started programming nine years ago, worked as a web developer, then moved into bug hunting and penetration testing before joining the SOC and MDR side, building experience across DFIR, threat intelligence, detection engineering, Windows internals and threat hunting along the way.
He started the academy to build the courses he needed when he started: the short way through the years he spent finding things out the long way.
