Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Curricula
Fun security awareness training platform for employees
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Curricula launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Looking to get some feedback from the Hacker News community. I wrote the book with a focus on penetration testers and red teamers, but there are great examples for network admins, developers, and blue team defenders as well. You can pick up a copy for free here through May 19, 2019: https://gumroad.com/l/the_cyber_plumbers_handbook/hackernews... Please note, because it's hosted on Gumroad, it does require an email. If you don't want to give out your actual email, check out an anonymous email service. I give it away to students for free, so if you know of one that…
2019 · its alternatives →
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SecuSpark▲78Turn boring cert exams into a MMORPG with boss fights
Apr 2026 · secuspark.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · hacksplaining.com · its alternatives →
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Empower yourself to hack and defend
Jan 2026 · academy.subverted.io · its alternatives →
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Cybersecurity training for SMBs. To protect valuable data.
Oct 2025 · cyberguard-smb-heroes.lovable.app · its alternatives →
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There is too much of everything in cybersecurity. Noise, FUD, unfulfilled sales promises, incidents, things to address, information to process, technologies to look at, people to educate. I am working as a CISO and it's mostly my job to raise awareness, understand all the risks, track all current issues and prioritize them, and be able to communicate all that with proper references and examples to our management team. I've been building and dogfooding a tool that ingests much of the noise and provides focused notifications per cybersecurity topic and regular awareness texts. The idea was to…
2023 · beyondmachines.net · its alternatives →
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2020 · application.security · its alternatives →
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CertGames▲14Gamified cybersecurity training & certification prep
2025 · certgames.com · its alternatives →
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Learn the skills cybersecurity pros actually use
May 2026 · defendtheorg.com · its alternatives →
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Hello Hacker News! We’re Willem, Roeland, Felix and Madeline from Aikido Security (https://aikido.dev/) We’re building a “no BS’ application security platform. It’s the platform we wish existed, but couldn’t find. Willem, our CTO had to manage (application) security at many of his previous startups, and honestly, hated it. Most security tools we had to use made us feel dumb. They were super complex and riddled with false positives. Their platform was behind the book a demo button. They had intransparent pricing models and honestly charged us way too much. We think most of…
2024 · its alternatives →
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