Excellence in Education
Curricula engineered alongside active industry frameworks (NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 27001), ensuring students internalize relevant operational skillsets.
Registered Calgary Academy & Advisory
Engineering Career Resiliency & Sovereign Digital Defense
CCAS is a Calgary-registered cyber defense academy and technical solutions provider, built to move professionals into operational security roles and to harden the organisations that hire them.
1,100+
Cyber Alumni Trained
100%
Hands-on Lab Simulation
2 Clinics
Key Regional Medical Partners
SW Calgary
Registered Operations Hub
Who We Are
Who We Are
We are practitioners first. Every instructor at CCAS has carried a pager, tuned a SIEM and defended a live environment. That operational grounding shapes our curriculum, our labs and the standards we hold graduates to.
Commitment
Career Pivot Guarantee
Every cohort includes CV construction, LinkedIn positioning and mock interviews run by active hiring directors — not sold as an upsell.
Trained Inside Tactical Workspaces
Cloud-hosted SIEM and EDR environments that mirror a real security operations centre.
Taught by Practising Defenders
Every instructor has carried a pager and defended a live environment.
Aligned to Canadian Compliance
PIPEDA, Alberta PIPA, ISO 27001 and NIST CSF contextualised throughout.
Practitioner-led
Instructors with 10+ years defending live environments
Our Vision
To make Western Canada the most defensible region in the country — by training the analysts who staff its security operations and hardening the infrastructure they protect.
Our Mission
Deliver accredited, hands-on cyber defense education and enterprise security services that measurably reduce risk and measurably change careers.
Foundations
The Foundations of CCAS
Six commitments that shape how we teach, how we consult and how we measure ourselves.
Integrity & Professionalism
Rigorous ethical training is mandatory. We instill accountability, disciplined log forensics, and compliance rigor required by corporate compliance boards.
Technology Advancement
Persistent integration of automated cloud security, AI-augmented triage tooling, and modern attack emulation methods keeping graduates ahead of threats.
Commitment to Student Success
We measure our success strictly through student employment outcomes. Dedicated 1-on-1 review checkpoints guarantee no participant falls behind.
Enterprise Defense Webinars
Community-facing and tailored corporate seminars engineered to harden non-technical personnel against sophisticated social engineering and ransomware.
Career Launchpad & CVs
Hands-on construction of high-impact, ATS-optimized technical CVs, coupled with mock interview drills conducted by active cybersecurity hiring directors.
Faculty
The People Teaching You
Practitioners who still work the problems they teach.
Lead SOC Instructor
Blue Team Practice LeadFifteen years across managed detection and response, now running the SOC Analyst and SIEM tracks.
GCIA
Splunk Certified
MITRE ATT&CK Defender
GRC Practice Lead
Governance, Risk & ComplianceLeads ISO 27001, NIST CSF and audit preparation engagements for Alberta clinics and SMBs.
ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
CISA
CRISC
Career Services Lead
Career DevelopmentFormer technical hiring director; runs CV construction, LinkedIn strategy and mock interview drills.
Certified Career Coach
Calgary footprint
Rooted in Southwest Calgary, Protecting Critical Infrastructure
Our campus sits in Southwest Calgary, minutes from the clinics and firms we defend. Local presence means we can be on site the same day when it matters.
“CCAS rebuilt our access controls and trained the whole front desk. Six months on we have had zero phishing incidents reach a mailbox.”
“The hardening engagement was thorough and the documentation they left us satisfied our compliance review outright.”
Registered Operations Hub
South West, Calgary, T3C 2A4, Alberta, Canada
Ready to transition into cyber defense?
Book a fifteen-minute call with an academy advisor and we will map the route from where you are now.