What's happening with Practice Labs?
As of January 2024, we are ending our learning partnership with Practice Labs and are sunsetting their virtual lab content from our catalog. This includes both lab bundles and labs that have been threaded into courses. After this, there will be no Practice Labs content available for our learners.
We are also removing a selection of courses that were heavily dependent on Practice Labs. Without the labs, the courses do not provide a meaningful learning experience. We have direct recommendations for each of these courses.
We assure you with the removal of Practice Labs, we will maintain the same virtual lab coverage for certification courses. In fact, we are diligently improving the presentation of certification content in our catalog.
We are also increasingly leveraging our own Cybrary lab experiences, which align to Cybrary’s new assessments and career paths, and integrate more seamlessly into your dashboard and goals. We have already taken steps to map our 50+ (and growing) first-party labs to the majority of certifications in our catalog.
When is this happening?
February 2024
What content should I use instead?
- Cybrary Labs
- Infosec Labs
- Skillable Labs
Where can I find labs aligned to Certifications?
You can find labs aligned to certifications in the “Additional Content” section of each Certification Prep page.
I'm an org owner/admin with a Team. How can I help my team members find the appropriate replacement lab?
Virtual Labs: There will not be any 1:1 lab title replacements. Instead we are replacing the former collection with a new collection. These collections can be found in the “Additional Content” section of each Certification Prep page.
Courses dependent on labs: We have direct recommendations for each course being retired as part of the Practice Labs sunset. Please refer to the list below.
You can also connect with your dedicated CSM for further information and recommended lab content.
I used Practice Labs to complete a course/career path? Can I review those labs?
No, any Practice Lab content will be archived and completely removed. We will not be able to provide access after they have been sunset.
Course Replacement Recommendations
| Course | Replacement |
| CIS Top 20 Critical Security Controls | CIS 18 Control 1 |
| Computer Hacking and Forensics | Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking |
| Cross-Site Scripting | OWASP Top 10 - A04:2021 - Insecure Design |
| Evasion for Incident Handlers | Everyday Digital Forensics |
| Footprinting and Reconnaissance | Network Reconnaissance |
| Fundamentals of Vulnerability Management | Vulnerability Scanner Basics |
| Introduction to the OWASP API Security Top 10 | OWASP Top 10 - A01:2021 - Broken Access Control |
| Malware Threats | Malware Analysis Basics |
| Mobile Security Fundamentals | End User Mobile Security |
| Online Reconnaissance | OSINT Basics |
| Privileged Access Management Fundamentals | Access Control Basics |
| Scanning and Enumeration with NMAP | Network Reconnaissance |
| Session Hijacking | OWASP Top 10 - A07:2021 - Identification and Authentication Failures |
| Sniffing | Network Sniffing Basics |
| Social Engineering | Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking, Module 9: Social Engineering |
| SQL Injection | OWASP Top 10 - A03:2021 - Injection |
| Stealth Techniques for Incident Handlers | Everyday Digital Forensics |
| Sumo Logic Cloud-Native Machine Data Analytics Service Fundamentals | Threat Hunting with Windows Event Forwarding |
| Web Defense Fundamentals | OWASP Top 10 - A01:2021 - Broken Access Control |