Your first stop. Get your tools installed, meet your first CloudVault teammate, and run your first AI-powered security analysis — all in under 45 minutes. By the end you'll have Claude Code installed, your AI workspace configured, and real security findings documented — sent directly to the CISO who just hired you. Setup → first win → let's build.

Six workflows that save you real hours this week. No infrastructure — just AI applied to the security work you're already doing, with junior analyst Marcus. 📊 Triage 47 GuardDuty findings in minutes 🚨 Run a full incident response on a real data breach 📝 Communicate remediation to engineering, board, and compliance 📋 Fix compliance gaps with AI-drafted control narratives 🔍 Security-review Terraform and IAM policies in minutes 📑 Evaluate a SIEM vendor + fill out a 100-question questionnaire

Deploy a production-grade SIEM on AWS and connect it to an AI-powered MCP server. This is where you stop reading dashboards and start talking to your security environment in plain English. ☁️ Deploy Wazuh on AWS with Terraform 🖥️ Monitor 3 CloudVault Financial servers 🔗 Connect the Wazuh MCP server — 48 tools 🗣️ Investigate alerts in natural language 🎯 Run proactive threat hunts ⚡ Take action through AI: block IPs, isolate hosts ✍️ Write custom detection rules with AI

Wire your SIEM into an open-source SOAR platform and build automated response playbooks. CloudVault's SOC can't keep manually responding to every alert — time to automate. ⚙️ Deploy Shuffle SOAR and connect it to Wazuh 🔗 Configure native webhook integration (official Wazuh partnership) 🤖 Build automated workflows: detect → enrich → block → notify 🧪 Test with simulated attacks and watch your playbooks fire By the end, CloudVault's security response runs in seconds instead of hours.

The SOC capstone. Deploy an attack range, simulate real attacks with AI-assisted tools, then detect and respond with everything you've built. AI on both sides. 🟥🟦 💥 Simulate brute force, lateral movement, and data exfiltration 🛡️ Detect with Wazuh MCP — investigate in natural language 🔁 Respond with Shuffle — automated playbooks fire on your attacks 📄 Write a full incident report using AI — the crown jewel for your portfolio This is the lab people talk about in interviews.

Get a live cloud security portfolio on AWS in 30 minutes — then let Claude Code populate it with the work you shipped in Courses 1-3. 🚀 L1: Use the GitHub Template, set 5 fields, deploy to AWS — live URL in ~30 minutes 🧩 L2: Hand Claude Code your course artifacts; populate your project pages with real findings 📣 L3: Polish About + FAQ in your voice, ship, share, and grow the portfolio over time The conversion lesson: from "I learned" to "I built."

CloudVault's SOC 2 audit is in 3 months. Deploy a real compliance platform and use AI to do in hours what takes GRC teams weeks. 🏗️ Deploy Eramba on AWS with Terraform 📊 Map SOC 2 controls to real technical evidence 🔍 Run AI-powered gap analysis — "Which controls are we missing evidence for?" 📝 Draft policies, control narratives, and audit-ready evidence packages with AI Turn weeks of compliance work into hours. Your fourth portfolio project.