The analyst shortage isn't a recruiting problem — it's a production problem. Our Academy produces cybersecurity analysts the direct way: threat detection, incident response, and security operations learned inside the same GRC and incident-response methodology our consulting practice runs with clients, in the city where you need them to work.
Every security leader knows the math: open requisitions measured in months, salaries bid up by the same handful of employers, and a hiring pool that recycles the same résumés. Production beats bidding. The Academy trains analysts inside working methodology — the control sets behind our GRC-as-a-Service practice, the playbooks behind Resilient & Ready — so graduates have already run detections, worked an incident timeline, and written findings someone reviewed. Led by Blanca Gonzales — who re-skilled early-career Milwaukee talent into tech careers as Executive Director of i.c.stars Milwaukee — the track converts local potential into the analysts your SOC is missing.
Demand-driven intake — early-career candidates selected for the curiosity, rigor, and composure the analyst chair requires, not for credentials they haven't had a chance to earn.
Threat detection, incident response, and security operations practiced against real control sets and IR playbooks — with lab rotations across the detection stack and tabletop exercises run like the ones we facilitate for clients.
Graduates hire into your security team or deploy into Cream City Cyber client engagements — analysts who cross-sell directly into the cyber work because they trained inside it.
The curriculum isn't adapted from a vendor course. It's extracted from the engagements our cyber practice runs every week.
Alert triage, log analysis, and threat detection across a rotating lab stack — the daily motion of the SOC chair, built into habit before day one on the job.
Working incidents on real playbooks: timelines, escalation, communication under pressure — the same exercise discipline behind our Resilient & Ready service.
Analysts who can read a control set and write evidence-quality findings — trained against the frameworks our GRC-as-a-Service clients live under.
A graded assessment against a real control environment, reviewed by practicing consultants — the portfolio piece a hiring manager can actually evaluate.
Engage per hire, per cohort, or as a standing pipeline partner. Pricing scales with seats, tooling depth, and how closely the lab mirrors your environment.
For security teams that need analysts now, without building a program.
For organizations that want analysts trained on their stack and control environment.
For organizations making the Academy a standing arm of their security talent strategy.
Pricing scales with seats, tooling, and curriculum depth. Book a scoping call and we'll scope the pipeline and give you a real number.
Cream City Cyber is honored to stand among the businesses powering Milwaukee's growth — proof that world-class security expertise and deep community roots belong together.
