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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Intro to Network Penetration Testing CTF Quiz

October 19, 2026

Check out this CTF challenge from Ashley Knowles’s webcast on October 23rd, 2025!

Lab Nmap Information Security Core Skills IO-WRL-005 PD-WRL-007 OPM 451 OPM 541 NF-COM-009 CIS 4 CIS 4.4 CIS 4.5 CIS 5 CIS 5.2 CIS 10 CIS 10.1 TA0002 T1569 TA0112 T1685 T1686 TA0006 T1003 TA0007 T1046 TA0008 T1021 T1550

Nmap

July 29, 2026

This is a lab from John Strand 's Information Security Core Skills Course: https://www.antisyphontraining.com/product/information-security-core-skills-tm/ Host Firewalls and Nmap Lab Objective In this…

Lab OpenCanary Deception Systems Network Honeypots PD-WRL-001 OPM 511 NF-COM-007 CIS 13 TA0007 T1046

openCanary

July 29, 2026

This is a lab from John Strand 's Active Defense and Cyber Deception Course: https://www.antisyphontraining.com/product/active-defense-and-cyber-deception-with-john-strand/ OpenCanary For The Ubuntu…

Lab Portspoof Deception Systems Network Honeypots PD-WRL-001 OPM 511 NF-COM-007 CIS 13 TA0007 T1046

Portspoof

July 29, 2026

This is a lab from John Strand 's Active Defense and Cyber Deception Course: https://www.antisyphontraining.com/product/active-defense-and-cyber-deception-with-john-strand/ Portspoof Windows VM…

Lab Scapy Intro To SOC PD-WRL-007 IO-WRL-004 OPM 541 OPM 441 CIS 13 TA0007 T1046

Scapy Lab

July 29, 2026

Scapy Lab Lab Objective In this lab we’ll use Scapy to demystify how network packets are assembled. The point isn’t to turn you into a Scapy wizard — it’s to give you a concrete, visual way to…

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Welcome To Free Lab Fridays

HOW IT WORKS

What If I Use All 2 Free Hours?

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Intro to Network Penetration Testing CTF Quiz

Nmap

openCanary

Portspoof

Scapy Lab

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