Every company small or large has the potential to effectively defend their most critical assets. Every person, regardless of prior education, with an aptitude and passion for cybersecurity has the potential to excel in the exciting, high paying field of cybersecurity. In 2020, we realized that to unlock this potential a fundamental shift is required towards operational learning. Bringing the latest threats and technologies together with real, on-the-job situations allows learners to immediately deploy into professional job roles. RapidAscent brings this new mode of operational training to companies and learners at a large scale.

Our Mission

We partner with companies and students together to

secure companies from rapidly evolving threats
provide a job-ready, deployable talent pipeline
build cyber security careers for a better life

Our Story

While training and assessing risk to companies in cybersecurity space in 2020, Mike Lyons at Stanford along with Craig Schultz and Brian DeMuth, who were operating in corporate cyber risk and advanced cyber defense, formed a new team with leading industry cybersecurity experts.

They realized that the largest risk issue facing companies globally was the rapidly increasing skills gap leading to more than 4 million unfilled positions.

Realizing that even the largest companies did not have the resources available to build a training program that can keep up with new emerging cyber technologies and threats, they designed an adaptive, hands-on, online learning capability that Fortune 100 companies now depend on.

Since then, these immersive programs upskill learners so they can operate effectively from their first fundamental training through internship, apprenticeship, hiring, advancement, promotion and retention.

RapidAscent provides learners with the capability to excel in staying ahead of threats, is centered on company's on-the-job projects, and matches learners with potential and passion to thrive in a robust cyber security career that matches a corporation's needs.