Learn Train Hire Different

Transform Your Cybersecurity Program Through Operational Training.

Market Challenge

Keeping Pace

Fast changing technology require the ability to analyze increasingly complex coporate systems.

Certification training lacks real-job situations

Traditional training is wasteful and inefficient

Nature of Skills

Cybersecurity skills degrade quickly as threats evolve and tasks become increasingly dynamic

Training with basic tools is failing the industry

Threats require scalable prep and automation

Job Readiness

New-entry hires lack task readiness and fluent use of best practices

Robust team-based skills are critical to readiness

Fire figthing on the job leaves little time to learn

What makes us different

Cohort Based Apprentice Training
Task-Oriented vs. Knowledge-based Approach
Real World Scenarios and Simulation
Verifying Readiness and Performance

Our mission

We partner with companies and Learners Alike to

Our History

Founded upon two decades of cybersecurity experience.

The founders of RapidAscent realized there were key gaps in cybersecurity training that spans commercial, national defense, nuclear security, and critical infrastructure education.

Prior Training Experience, MIT and Stanford.

With decades of university, National Lab and corporate risk management experience, RapidAscent’s founders incubated and piloted online operational task training, drawing from their experience and success in operational flight simulation training.

Created RapidAscent in 2020 to address key underlying challenges in worldwide digital security.

Motivated by the massive monetary and strategic losses across industry and government, largely caused by lack of expert staff, RapidAscent was founded to transform cybersecurity with next generation operational training.

Developed new apprentice programs and employee upskilling to address the wide range of skills gaps.

Help cybersecurity professionals operate effectively from their first fundamental training through internship, apprenticeship, hiring, advancement, promotion, and retention.

Continued transformation.

Launched F50 aerospace training program with leaders in the industry, serving supply chain vendors and customers and engaging other industries. Received Good Jobs grant from US DOC with Boeing, adding DOL Registration and continued extension into corporate upskilling.

Executive Team

Brian DeMuth

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Craig Schultz

Chief Technology Officer &
Co-Founder

Andrew Beardall

Chief Operating Officer

Mike Lyons​

Chief Executive Officer &
Co-Founder

Pruthvesh Patel

Corporate Comptroller

Kim Archer

Executive Director, Military, Non-Military & SkillBridge Programs

Ajay Menendez

Senior Instructor

Jeff DeSouza

Senior Director, Platform, and Development

Advisory Team

Chris Villasenor

Co-Founder, Dir, TealSpace Inc.

Lynda Elis

President & CEO, Capitol Concierge

Bill Smith

Chairman, Board of Dir, Young Marines

Matt Weaver

Director, Cyber Bytes Foundation

Mike Hallinan

Former Dir, Cyber CSAA, Marine, Veterans Education

Todd Rowley

Old Dominion Bank, Nova, and VA Tech

Paris E L'Etraz, PhD

Managing Director Venture Lab, IE Business School

Jack Murphy

AI/ML Specialist, MIT

Mark Goodwin

Former VA Tech Assoc, Director Hume Center

Jay Kim​

Market Expansion, FansXR, Proto Hologram, KiwiTech​

Ron Spoerl

Aambe Chairmain & CEO