About

Our Mission

Making cybersecurity accessible to everyone. We provide practical training and resources for students, newcomers, and professionals looking to sharpen their skills. Whether you just don't get the chance to do this stuff at work, you don't have time for a homelab, or you're a student looking to bridge the gap between classroom and career, we're here to help you succeed.

Our training is informed by real-world experience, not just theory. Our approach is built on the fundamental principle of defense in depth, layers of defense, because true security comes from multiple protective measures working together.

About Me

I'm based in Colorado and have spent nearly two decades working in technology across IT, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and systems engineering. I developed an enjoyment for teaching at Apple, oddly enough, breaking down complex topics for people who just needed it to make sense. That stuck with me. I still enjoy speaking and teaching whenever the opportunity is right.

This site is a place where I share tools, training, and content I wish I'd had earlier in my career. If anything here has been helpful to you, I'd genuinely love to hear about it. And if you've got constructive feedback on how to make it better, I welcome that too. Reach out anytime.

Due to the nature of my work and family privacy, I've chosen to stay unnamed on this site.

Expertise

Get In Touch

Have questions or want to connect?

Email: info@skiptosecure.com

Supporting Our Educators

I spent years championing IT and security for school districts and a boarding school - small teams, tight budgets, and infrastructure that had to just work. I know what it's like to be the only person standing between a school network and the next phishing campaign.

This isn't another Sec+ study guide or death-by-slideshow training. These are hands-on learning tools where the whole point is: here's the thing - now touch it. Interactive, practical, built for people who learn by doing. Designed for K-12 IT staff and classroom educators who need to understand real threats without sitting through another webinar.

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Ground Zero

No SIEM. No syslog server. No monitoring at all. You're not behind, you're just getting started.

Monitoring is one of my favorite parts of cybersecurity and honestly, one of the most undervalued. You can have policies, frameworks, and compliance checklists all day long. But if you can't see what's happening on your network, none of it means anything. A monitoring stack isn't a nice-to-have. It's the foundation everything else sits on.

No shame. No jargon walls. Just practical steps you can start on a weekend.

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Software

Purpose-built tools for security teams that need results without enterprise overhead.

DangerMap - Dependency Decision Support

Most vulnerability scanners tell you what's wrong after you've already committed. DangerMap tells you what to pick before you do. Point it at a package manifest and get a version-by-version risk landscape with migration recommendations. Not just a list of CVEs, but an actual upgrade plan with risk estimates for each path. Built for teams that want to make informed dependency choices during sprint planning, not scramble to patch after a scan kicks back findings.

WatchBx - Container Runtime Scanner

You know what's in your images at build time. But do you know what's actually running in production right now? WatchBx inventories live Docker containers, detects runtime drift from the original image, and cross-references installed packages against vulnerability databases. One command gives you the full picture: what changed since deployment, what's exposed, and what to fix first. Designed for teams that need continuous container visibility for CMMC, FedRAMP, or SOC 2 without paying six figures for an enterprise platform.

GateKeepr - Systems Engineering Review Tracker

Design reviews generate artifacts, findings, action items, and sign-offs across every gate, and most teams track it all in spreadsheets that nobody trusts. GateKeepr manages the full SRR to PDR to CDR to TRR to SAR lifecycle with role-based dashboards, entry/exit criteria tracking, and real-time visibility into program health and slippage. Includes a dedicated security engineering view with NIST 800-171 controls traceability. Built for small-to-mid defense contractors and engineering orgs that need the rigor without the overhead.

Writr - CMMC Policy Engine

Writr guides you through a five-phase survey to scope your CUI boundary and document how each NIST 800-171 control functions in your environment. Every answer is mapped through a dependency graph, so updates automatically cascade across related controls and documents to maintain consistency. It generates 23 thorough rough-draft policies and plans, including your SSP, that require only focused fine-tuning before finalization.

These tools are built for real teams solving real problems. If that sounds like yours, let's talk.

Resources

Document Templates

POA&M Template SHA-256: 1407d2c13e153b918e8763cb07e9f0fcad6f94bce35d7a1558c13c7728681be4

Incident Response Template SHA-256: 7467c8ed585f0deaada53d71730f1473f65577c42e7ae45c3482c940b814d0fb

Cheat Sheets

Wireshark Cheat Sheet SHA-256: 0edacb5615e637bf3a2001f0119ea5e47057db61444925dec3360300144f4372

IP Tables Cheat Sheet SHA-256: d519829dc10ee23654530f739ad841a87bfac50abf79cc22401c7ccf5bada49c

Zeek Cheat Sheet SHA-256: 2bd8b31517957f45f82c34ab592c0910d420081f8c9d8d8b2d6babd4cb124394

Leadership Intro Guide SHA-256: b372abbc5e974c99fec3ce50283db1f99493dcefcf29b5f2fff4db7b55134155

Training Platforms

TryHackMe https://tryhackme.com/

HackTheBox https://www.hackthebox.com/

CyberDefenders https://cyberdefenders.org/

LetsDefend https://letsdefend.io/

Blue Team Essentials

DeepBlue CLI https://www.sans.org/tools/deepbluecli

The DFIR Report https://thedfirreport.com/

Sysmon (System Monitor) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon

YARA Documentation https://yara.readthedocs.io/

Sigma Rules Repo https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma

MITRE ATT&CK Navigator https://mitre-attack.github.io/attack-navigator/

Atomic Red Team https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team

Cloud & Infrastructure

Prowler https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler

ScoutSuite https://github.com/nccgroup/ScoutSuite

CloudGoat https://github.com/RhinoSecurityLabs/cloudgoat

GRC & Frameworks

GRC Academy https://grcacademy.io/

NIST CSF 2.0 https://www.nist.gov/cyberframework

CIS Controls v8 https://www.cisecurity.org/controls/v8

CMMC Assessment Guide https://dodcio.defense.gov/CMMC/

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Privacy

Skip to Secure provides free cybersecurity resources, tools, and training for professionals and educators. Its K-12 training platform collects zero student personally identifiable information (PII).

What We Don't Collect

No individual student accounts, logins, names, or emails. No IP addresses, device identifiers, or behavioral data tied to individual users. No cookies. No advertising. No third-party tracking or data processing services.

Access is managed through shared classroom passwords provided directly to the requesting educator. Passwords may be rotated upon request at any time.

FERPA, COPPA & CIPA

Because Skip to Secure does not receive, access, or store any education records or student PII, the platform is compliant with FERPA (20 U.S.C. § 1232g), COPPA (15 U.S.C. §§ 6501–6506), and CIPA (47 U.S.C. § 254) by design. Skip to Secure is willing to execute a Data Privacy Agreement (DPA) with any district that requires one.

Hosting & Security

The platform is hosted on Netlify, which maintains SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27018, PCI DSS v4.0, and HIPAA certifications. All traffic is encrypted with TLS 1.2 minimum and AES-256 for data at rest and in transit. The firewall trainer is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Skip to Secure is built entirely as static HTML — no server-side processing, no database, no session management. Administrative access to hosting environments is restricted to the platform owner and protected by multi-factor authentication.

Analytics

This site uses GoatCounter, an open-source, privacy-first analytics tool. GoatCounter sets no cookies, stores no IP addresses, does not track individual users, does not create user profiles, and shares no information with third parties. It provides only aggregate page view counts. No data point collected by GoatCounter can be linked to an individual student or user. The source code is publicly auditable at github.com/arp242/goatcounter.

Data Retention

Because Skip to Secure does not collect or store student data, there is no student data to retain. Standard infrastructure-level logs maintained by hosting providers follow their respective retention and security policies.

Incident Response

In the unlikely event of a security incident affecting hosting infrastructure, participating districts will be notified promptly.

Accessibility

Skip to Secure strives to meet accessibility standards for educational environments and is continuously tested and improved for usability across screen sizes, operating systems, and device types commonly found in K-12 classrooms.

Contact

info@skiptosecure.com

For a downloadable version of this privacy overview, contact info@skiptosecure.com.

Document Version 2.0 | March 2026