Apex unifies three capabilities — structured training & labs, a live CTF competition engine, and on-demand operational simulation against digital twins of mission-critical systems — into a single orchestration platform. Built in Adelaide. Deployed by operators who take cyber seriously.
A full LMS for multi-section courses, quizzes, question banks, badges, and learning paths. Content built by CyberOps — shipped, not generic.
Real CVEs. Real patches. Real time pressure. Teams exploit, detect, and remediate against provisioned infrastructure — scored live. Static, dynamic, and scenario-mode challenges.
CloudFormation templates provision live AWS stacks — mirror builds of ground stations, RF spectrum sources, launch consoles, LMSes, ERPs, and critical-infrastructure estates across electricity, gas, water, and government. Participants SSH and RDP into actual machines with injected vulnerabilities and benign malware signatures. Score comes from live telemetry, not a quiz form.
# scenario: OPS-01 · SpectraNet Ground Station AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09' Description: Apex · SpectraNet · twin Resources: OpsConsole: Type: AWS::EC2::Instance Properties: InstanceType: t3.large UserData: !Sub inject/satctrl/v3.sh RFIngest: Type: AWS::Kinesis::Stream VulnSignature: CVE: 2024-31497 # benign marker
Define lessons, flags, or a CloudFormation-backed digital twin. Version it. Tag it by skill and classification.
Assemble a cohort. Pick scenarios. Gate by role — admin, event_admin, participant. Set a window. Arm.
Browsers for LMS and CTF. SSH and RDP into real provisioned hosts for OpsSim. No local tooling required.
Flag submissions, lesson progress, and host telemetry stream into a unified score model and skill radar.
A 72-hour live-fire exercise against a mirrored command network. Red cell exercises active lateral movement. Blue cell contains, evicts, and restores — scored on time-to-detect, time-to-contain, and integrity of forensic record.
A digital twin of a ground station console with injected anomalous uplink behaviour. Crew identifies the vector, isolates the host, and reconstructs the timeline — without pausing the simulated pass.
Phishing awareness and DFIR fundamentals push through Apex LMS to 3,200 staff. A parallel red-vs-blue exercise runs on a digital twin of the SCADA-adjacent corporate estate. Single pane of glass.
Scenario-mode challenges provision dedicated infrastructure per team. Dynamic flags prevent lateral share. Leaderboard is live. Skill radar rolls up to agency cyber workforce reporting.
CyberOps is an Adelaide-based Defence, Space & Cyber consultancy. We have built bespoke digital twins, incident response playbooks, and red-team engagements for operators who need cyber to behave the way their mission does — quietly, reliably, and under pressure. Apex is how that work ships.
Apex is not a freemium platform. Onboarding is a qualification conversation, followed by a scoped trial event.