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You don't need another course.
You need someone to review your work.

1:1 cybersecurity mentorship. Two twelve-week programmes, a written plan for your goal, and every lab, report and writeup read line by line by the person who set it.

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  • Weekly 1:1 — never a group call
  • Every submission reviewed personally
  • Free labs only, nothing to buy
  • Replies within two working days

Programmes

Web Application Security Practitioner

Test a real web application end to end, prove what you find, and write the report a security team would accept.

Test a real web application end to end against the OWASP Top 10 and common API flaws, and write a report a security team would accept. Weekly 1:1, labs reviewed every week.

Syllabus and details Apply for this
Duration
12 weeks
Topics
43
Fee
₹39,000 as 3 × ₹13,000 monthly — or ₹36,000 paid upfront (₹3,000 off)
  1. 01 Fundamentals 8
  2. 02 Core tech 27
  3. 03 Career readiness 8

SOC Analyst (Splunk & Sentinel)

Work an alert queue without guessing, build detections that survive a false-positive pass, and write the incident record someone can act on cold.

Detection, triage and investigation hands-on in Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel, from log sources to written incident reports. Weekly 1:1, labs reviewed every week.

Syllabus and details Apply for this
Duration
12 weeks
Topics
33
Fee
₹39,000 as 3 × ₹13,000 monthly — or ₹36,000 paid upfront (₹3,000 off)
  1. 01 Fundamentals 8
  2. 02 Core tech 17
  3. 03 Career readiness 8

Monthly 1:1 mentorship (open-ended)

No fixed syllabus and no fixed end date: two 1:1 sessions a week shaped around your role or goal, for as long as it takes. Continue after a programme, or start here if you already work in the field.

Fee
₹15,000 per month
Duration
Open-ended
Sessions
2 a week
Session hours
Per student

There is no fixed syllabus and no fixed end date — the length is whatever your goal needs, and we review it as you go. Same rhythm as the programmes: two live sessions a week on days agreed with you, and the rest of the week for the work.

  1. 01Apply
  2. 02A call
  3. 03A plan tailored to you
  4. 04Start
Apply for monthly mentorship

Two sessions a week, five days of doing

Two live 1:1 sessions every week, on days fixed with you once we start. The other five days are yours to work — research, assignments, labs, writeups. Session length is agreed per student and can change as you go.

My job

  • Guide you — tell you how to do things, and why it is done that way
  • Tell you what you need to do, and when to do it
  • Review everything you produce and tell you plainly where it falls short
  • Keep the plan honest as you change and as the field changes

Your job

  • Do the work, as per the guidance
  • Turn it in, so it can be reviewed
  • Ask when you are stuck — with a question someone can reproduce
  • Keep showing up; the change comes from accumulation, not intensity

We work together to build your career in this field. Do not expect a traditional class with slides delivered at you. Expect a class that guides you, mentors you, changes how you work, and helps you build yourself into a cybersecurity researcher.

How you get started

The same four steps whichever programme you choose, including open-ended mentorship.

  1. 01

    Apply

    A short form. No account, no payment. I read every one personally and reply within two working days.

  2. 02

    A call

    We talk about where you are, what you are aiming at, and whether this is the right thing for you. If it is not, I will say so.

  3. 03

    A plan tailored to you

    A written plan for your goal — the skills it breaks into, the resources chosen for each one, and the session rhythm and hours that fit your week.

  4. 04

    Start

    Sessions are scheduled, the plan goes live in your portal, and the work begins.

Who teaches it

Sarath G — Application Security Consultant & Cybersecurity Trainer. One mentor, one student at a time. No teaching assistants, no cohort, no recorded lectures.

9+
years in the field
1,600+
hours of instruction delivered
30,000+
people trained
10+
countries taught in, onsite

Figures as published on sarathg.me. Certifications held: CEH Master · CPENT · LPT Master · CHFI · CEI · ISC2 CC · WAHS.

  • Built the labs you will work in — ShopEasy, Pandora and a live Wazuh SOC environment, all hosted free at labs.sarathg.me
  • Wrote the curriculum himself: 274 field guides, cheatsheets, assignments, labs and research briefs, tagged to a competency taxonomy
  • Author of Certified and Clueless (ISBN 9789360381264), the book behind the DARE framework
  • Reviews every submission personally — assignments, labs, reports and writeups, with written feedback, not a score
  • Runs the whole engagement in the open: a written plan, per-skill progress, and a visible hour ledger you can check

What this is not

  • No job guarantee, and no "placement assistance" that turns out to mean a resume template
  • No recorded video library sold as live teaching
  • No batch of thirty with a teaching assistant answering your questions
  • No counselling call before you are told the price — it is on this page
  • No certificate from me. You leave with work you can show, and a route to third-party exams that employers actually recognise

Not ready to commit? Start smaller.

Most people should not hand a stranger ₹39,000 on a first visit. There are two cheaper ways in, and both tell you more than a brochure would.

Work through a lab

Free, public, no sign-up. The same labs used inside the programme. If the teaching does not suit you, you will know in an evening.

Open the free labs

Talk it through

A short call about where you actually are and what you are aiming at. If this is not the right thing for you, you will be told so.

Ask for a call

Apply for mentorship

Tell me where you are and what you are aiming at. I read every application myself.

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