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Education & Intelligence

The hands-on cybersecurity learning & threat intelligence platform

Archive256 lets you learn cybersecurity by doing, using real threat intelligence and live simulations. Free to learn, real labs when ready.

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What is Archive 256 ?

A culture where security engineers are formed

Archive256 (A256) is a free cybersecurity platform with research, threat profiles, tutorials, and hands-on labs, built to take you from curious to job-ready.

Learn

Learn by doing, from day one

Structured paths that teach, drill, and then prove each skill, so what you learn becomes what you can do.

Hands - on learning

Real environments, not videos

Every concept is learned in a real environment. You’re doing the work immediately, lesson by lesson, building genuine skill

  • Structured, hands-on modules
  • Skill-specific labs to drill each technique
  • Free to read and watch videos, always.

Simulations & labs

Enterprise-scale simulations

Go beyond single machines. Practice on realistic, enterprise-scale environments, the simulations are where real skill is forged. These are paid, priced by the time you use.

  • Standalone machines and enterprise ranges
  • Realistic, multi-host and cloud environments
  • Time credited benchmarks on any fault of ours

Threat intelligence

Not just learning, real intelligence

A256 is also a threat intelligence platform. Work with live intel, monitor threats, and trace them, the way real defenders do

Threat monitoring dashboard

See the threat landscape live

A live threat monitoring dashboard puts real-world threat activity in front of you, so you learn against the landscape as it actually is.

  • Live threat monitoring
  • Real-world threat activity and trends
  • Learn against real landscape

Traceback

Traceback: follow the thread

Traceback lets you investigate and follow threats to their source, connecting the dots the way real threat hunters and analysts do.

  • Investigate and trace threats
  • Connect indicators to their source
  • Real threat-hunting workflow

The path

Learn, Prove, Certify

  1. 1

    Learn

    Modules teach each skill hands-on.

  2. 2

    Practice

    Labs and simulations to apply it.

  3. 3

    Prove

    Benchmarks test what you can do.

  4. 4

    Certify

    A human-graded Final Benchmark.

For schools & organizations

Bring A256 to your students or team

A hands-on cybersecurity program with real labs, threat intelligence, progress tracking, and certifications, managed from one console.

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Pricing

Free to learn. Pay for the range.

Learning content is free and open. Simulations and labs are paid, priced by the time you use.

  • Free

    Everything you need to start learning, hands-on.

    $0

    Start for free
    • All learning content
    • Threat monitoring dashboard
    • Track your progress

  • Simulations & labs

    Range time

    Pay only for time in enterprise-scale simulations and labs

    $5 / hour

    Get started
    • Everything in Free
    • Enterprise-scale simulations
    • Standalone machines
    • Time credited on our faults

  • Certification

    A real, report-based, human-graded certifying exam.

    Final Benchmark

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    • Enterprise-scale exam
    • Human-graded report
    • Recognized AJAEQ credential