A face-to-face, lab-first Security+ program in Perth. You'll harden real devices, hunt through real logs and respond to simulated incidents, so you walk into your first security role having already done the work.
Junior SOC / Security Analyst — Entry Level
↳ the certificate gets you shortlisted. The skills get you hired.
Every breach headline creates more demand for people who can defend networks. The industry's own numbers show how wide the gap is.
Sources: AustCyber via The Nightly; Jobs and Skills Australia and State of the Service Report, as cited by AISA (May 2026). AustCyber also estimates an Australian suffers a cyber attack every six minutes.
Most Security+ prep is videos and practice exams. That gets you the certificate. It doesn't teach you what to do when an alert fires at 2am, or how to lock down a switch someone left wide open.
You don't learn security by reading about attacks. You learn it by defending real systems. That's how we've built this stream: every syllabus topic is paired with a lab on real equipment and an instructor beside you.
Aligned to the current CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) exam objectives. The percentage is each domain's weight on the exam.
Not screenshots from a video. These are tasks you'll complete yourself, on real Cisco gear and real log files.
Management traffic in plain text is an open door. You'll close it.
Someone plugs an unknown laptop into a meeting room port. Your config shuts it out.
Scroll a real auth log, find the pattern, identify the source and decide what to do.
Build an ACL so the guest Wi-Fi VLAN can reach the internet, but never internal systems.
Here's an illustrative first-week queue for a new analyst at a Perth organisation. Every ticket on the right maps to a lab you'll have already completed in the Accelerator. Nothing on it will be the first time you've seen it.
Illustrative scenario — this stream hasn't run its first cohort yet. We'll replace this with real graduate stories once it has.
Confirm it's brute force, check whether any login succeeded, block the source and escalate with evidence.
Move management to SSH, create local accounts, and document the change.
Test it, then explain the ACL to a non-technical manager in two sentences.
Studied cyber or IT but never triaged a real alert. Leaves with hands-on examples to talk through in interviews.
Strong theory from overseas, little local exposure. Gains practical proof employers in Australia recognise.
Coming from helpdesk, admin or compliance. Turns existing experience into a security role — GRC is a natural fit.
Our mission is to turn you into Candidate B.
It helps, but it isn't required. You should be comfortable with basic networking — IP addresses, what a switch and router do. If you're not there yet, the Network+ or CCNA stream is the right first step.
Yes. The point is hands-on work on real equipment with an instructor who can see what you're doing and correct it immediately.
The current CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) objectives. CompTIA updates Security+ roughly every three years, and we'll align the program to whichever version is current when you enrol.
We'll confirm exam voucher details when enrolment opens. Register interest to be first to hear.
No — nobody honestly can. What we can promise is that you'll finish having done the work, not just read about it, and able to show that in an interview.
Small face-to-face cohorts, limited seats. Register interest now and we'll tell you as soon as dates and enrolment open.
Register interest →Enrolling now: the Network Accelerator Program — CCNA stream.