Welcome To
Free Lab Fridays
Free Lab Fridays is an initiative started by
Black Hills Information Security, Antisyphon Training, and their partner, MetaCTF
This initiative has a simple goal: Education for All.

HOW IT WORKS
Looking for a place to safely complete all of the labs you see?
Free Lab Fridays has the answer.
By providing your email at the link below, you will receive a special code that will grant you 2 HOURS of access to a meticulously crafted lab environment,
hosted on MetaCTF’s CloudLab platform.
On this platform, you will be able to spin up a snapshotted instance of a virtual machine that has everything you will need to complete all 200+ labs,
and the best part? It's all accessible with the click of a button.
One VM. Unlimited Capability.
What If I Use All 2 Free Hours?
Don’t worry! Come back next Friday,
and you’ll get another 2 VM Lab HOURS, for Free!
Please Note: Stacking Hours is NOT possible!
Looking for something Specific?
Browse through our Lab Database
15 items
Active Defense And Cyber Deception
July 29, 2026
Active Defense and Cyber Deception Active defense and cyber deception focus on guiding attackers into controlled environments instead of only trying to block them. Defenders create systems that look…
Cloud Event Log Analysis
July 29, 2026
Cloud Event Log Analysis Cloud systems generate logs for everything - logins, API calls, file access, configuration changes, network connections. When something goes wrong, those logs are often the…
Crisis Management
July 29, 2026
Crisis Management When a cybersecurity incident hits, the technical side is only half the battle. The other half is knowing what to do, who does what, and how fast you can contain the damage. That is…
Endpoint Analysis
July 29, 2026
Endpoint Analysis An endpoint is any device connected to a network - a laptop, a workstation, a server, a phone. When something goes wrong on a network, the endpoint is usually where the story starts…
Endpoint Security Protection Analysis
July 29, 2026
Endpoint Security Protection Analysis An endpoint is any device that connects to a network - laptops, workstations, servers, phones. Endpoints are one of the most targeted surfaces in real attacks…
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