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About us: who is behind this training programme
The CYBERSQUAD Akademie is an approved training provider based in Düsseldorf. We have a single training programme: “AI-Driven Security Operations Specialist”. This page tells you who the company is, why this academy exists, how we teach and how you can check every one of these statements yourself. That includes a separate section on what we do not promise.
Who is behind it
Four perspectives on the same field
The academy was founded by André Käsbach. His path through IT security is the reason why this training programme is built the way it is – and why it starts with the attack and not with the theory.
Criminal investigation police
Command unit and cybercrime department. There, an attack is treated as a case: with victims, with traces and with the question of what could have prevented it.
What came of it: In the SOC‑Simulator you work through incidents the way they end up in a case file – with a report and with reasons that others can follow.
IT service companies
Then the service provider side: networks, servers and workstations for companies that have no IT department of their own.
What came of it: We teach the tools that small and medium-sized companies actually have – not only what runs in large corporations.
In-house IT
Later, responsibility for day-to-day operations in-house, with a budget, with faults and with on-call duty.
What came of it: Lessons run like a working day, 9:00 to 16:40. If you want to manage a shift later on, you have to have practised shifts.
Red team and penetration tests
Finally the attacker’s side, with a contract and with permission: attacking systems so that the gaps show up before the real attackers find them.
What came of it: Phase 2 shows you the attack before Phase 3 shows the defence. If you know only one side, you miss the other.
This order is built into the curriculum. First you understand how an attack works. Then you learn to spot it and stop it in a company. This is not a teaching idea; it is the order in which someone got to know this field first-hand.
The reason
What this academy was built for
One single purpose: to prepare adults with no previous IT knowledge for work in IT security. Three decisions came out of that.
Two minutes. Then you know which rule applies to you.
A short funding check, with no sign-up and no obligation.