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.

<p><span class="ql-size-title">Welcome To </span></p><p><span class="ql-size-title">Free Lab Fridays</span></p>

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!

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DeepBlueCLI

July 29, 2026

This is a lab from John Strand 's SOC Core Skills Course: https://www.antisyphontraining.com/product/soc-core-skills-with-john-strand/ This is a lab from John Strand 's Information Security Core…

Lab Domain Log Review Intro To SOC PD-WRL-001 PD-WRL-003 OPM 511 OPM 531 NF-COM-001 CIS 8 CIS 8.2 CIS 8.11 TA0003 T1136 TA0006 T1110

Domain Log Review Lab

July 29, 2026

This is a lab from John Strand 's SOC Core Skills Course: https://www.antisyphontraining.com/product/soc-core-skills-with-john-strand/ Domain Log Review Lab Overview In this lab we are going to look…

Lab Firewall Log Review Intro To SOC PD-WRL-001 IO-WRL-004 OPM 511 OPM 441 CIS 8 CIS 8.11 CIS 13 TA0011 T1071

Firewall Log Review Lab

July 29, 2026

This is a lab from John Strand 's SOC Core Skills Course: https://www.antisyphontraining.com/product/soc-core-skills-with-john-strand/ Firewall Log Review Ubuntu VM Lab Overview In this lab we will be…

Lab Hayabusa Intro To SOC PD-WRL-001 PD-WRL-003 OPM 511 OPM 531 NF-COM-009 CIS 8 CIS 8.11

hayabusa

July 29, 2026

Hayabusa Ubuntu VM Lab Objective The objective of this lab is to use Hayabusa to analyze Sysmon logs and detect suspicious activity related to process creation, network connections, and authentication…

Lab Poisoning the Well IR Intro To SOC PD-WRL-003 PD-WRL-001 OPM 531 OPM 511 NF-COM-001 CIS 8 CIS 8.11 CIS 17 TA0006 T1110 TA0008 T1021

Incident Response Labs

July 29, 2026

Poisoning the Well - Incident Response Labs Lab Objective In this lab, we will navigate through log files that simulate an attack on a corporate domain. Our goal is to illustrate how to investigate…

Lab Linux CLI Intro To SOC IO-WRL-005 PD-WRL-001 OPM 451 OPM 511 NF-COM-009 CIS 4 CIS 8 TA0002 T1059 TA0007 T1057 T1082

LinuxCLI Lab

July 29, 2026

This is a lab from John Strand 's SOC Core Skills Course: https://www.antisyphontraining.com/product/soc-core-skills-with-john-strand/ Linux CLI For The Ubuntu VM In this lab we will be looking at a…

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Welcome To Free Lab Fridays

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DeepBlueCLI

Domain Log Review Lab

Firewall Log Review Lab

hayabusa

Incident Response Labs

LinuxCLI Lab

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