Cover6 Community - Atlanta

Everybody tells you to get into cybersecurity. Almost nobody tells you where to actually start — or what you can safely ignore.

We're kicking off the fall with the talk that started this community. No slides for the sake of slides, no gatekeeping, and no pretending there's one right path. Bring your questions; this one's an open AMA, and I'm answering live.

🎯 What We'll Cover
- Where to actually start — and the popular advice worth skipping
- The honest map: certs, labs, and experience, and which one moves the needle first
- What Cover6 has built that costs you nothing — 16 modules of Intro to Cyber, free lab access, and a community that shows up
- What's coming this fall — the full September–November calendar, and how to use it

Open AMA. Bring the question you've been embarrassed to ask.

🔗 Stay connected:
- Cover6 Solutions: https://www.cover6solutions.com
- YouTube (live streams + replays): https://www.youtube.com/@Cover6Solutions
- Courses and certification prep: https://cover6solutions.com/courses/

🎤 Submit a talk/demo: https://www.papercall.io/cover6community

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Most people never try a Capture The Flag because they assume you have to already know how to hack. That's backward. A CTF is how you learn.

Wednesday night we go live on our own CTF platform — challenges running on Cover6 infrastructure, a live scoreboard, and real flags you'll capture during the session. Not a talk about CTFs. An actual one, built by us, running on our own gear.

🎯 What We'll Cover
- What a CTF actually is — how scoring works and why employers run them as interviews
- The categories: web recon, network forensics, OSINT, and a live SIEM investigation in Splunk
- Live walkthrough — capturing your first flags on a real target, start to finish
- Where to look first, and what to do when you're stuck

The challenges stay online after the stream. If Wednesday doesn't work, you can still play.

This is Module 15 of our free Intro to Cyber series — you don't need the previous 14 to follow along. Every category you'll see Wednesday maps to something we teach, and the courses are free: https://cover6solutions.com/courses/

🔗 Stay connected:
- Cover6 Solutions: https://www.cover6solutions.com
- YouTube (live streams + replays): https://www.youtube.com/@Cover6Solutions
- Courses and certification prep: https://cover6solutions.com/courses/

🎤 Submit a talk/demo: https://www.papercall.io/cover6community

🤝 Want your brand in front of 9,900+ cybersecurity professionals? Sponsorship packages are available — info@cover6solutions.com

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Six lanes into cybersecurity. One of them fits you better than the rest — and most people find that out three years in, by accident.

Tonight we fix that. We'll walk the real roles: what each one actually does, what the money looks like at each level, and how to tell which one matches how you're already wired. If you ran the CTF with us on September 9, bring your scores — we'll read them live as a career signal.

🎯 What We'll Cover
- The six lanes — SOC analyst, pentester, GRC, security engineer, threat intel, incident response — and what each one really does all day
- What the money looks like: entry, mid, senior, and what actually moves you between them
- Reading your CTF results as a career signal — the categories you crushed say more than a cert does
- Your first 90 days: the certs, labs, and portfolio that get you the interview

This session closes the Intro to Cyber curriculum. All 16 modules are free at https://cover6solutions.com/courses/

🔗 Stay connected:
- Cover6 Solutions: https://www.cover6solutions.com
- YouTube (live streams + replays): https://www.youtube.com/@Cover6Solutions
- Courses and certification prep: https://cover6solutions.com/courses/

🎤 Submit a talk/demo: https://www.papercall.io/cover6community

🤝 Want your brand in front of 9,900+ cybersecurity professionals? Sponsorship packages are available — info@cover6solutions.com

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Most SOC training runs on canned data. You already know what you're supposed to find before you open the SIEM. That's not what the job feels like.

Tonight, we work in a live Splunk environment fed by real internet attack traffic — hitting a live honeypot. Nothing staged, nothing simulated. Don't take our word for it: scan the honeypot yourself during the session and watch your own IP land in the SIEM within minutes.

🎯 What We'll Cover
- What a SOC analyst actually does — the tiers, the alert queue, and where you'd sit on day one
- Reading a real alert: true positive, false positive, and the disposition note your manager actually reads
- Live SPL — the handful of Splunk queries that do most of the work
- Scan the honeypot yourself and watch your traffic surface in the SIEM in real time

Cover6: First Watch is our free primer for SOC Analyst Prep. Tonight is the fundamentals; the course is where you go deep.

Hiring managers: we're taking incident scenario submissions. You design the scenario, it runs on our infrastructure, candidates work it, and you see who actually performs — not who interviews well. Email info@cover6solutions.com.

🔗 Stay connected:
- Cover6 Solutions: https://www.cover6solutions.com
- YouTube (live streams + replays): https://www.youtube.com/@Cover6Solutions
- Courses and certification prep: https://cover6solutions.com/courses/

🎤 Submit a talk/demo: https://www.papercall.io/cover6community

🤝 Want your brand in front of 9,900+ cybersecurity professionals? Sponsorship packages are available — info@cover6solutions.com

Rep the community → https://www.cover6solutions.com/product/cover6-shield-unisex-t-shirt/
Grab a Cover6 Shield tee and show up repping the community that helped get you here.