Ctrl.Alt.Defeat
Test your instincts. Master the mission. Experience SecOps at Google speed.
Ctrl.Alt.Defeat is a hands-on, gamified cyber range designed by Foresite and powered by Google SecOps.
Step into the role of a Security Analyst, Engineer, or SOC Leader — and experience how AI, automation, and collaboration redefine modern security operations.
CHOOSE YOUR MISSION

Ready to Test Your Skills?
Join our next live Ctrl.Alt.Defeat cyber range — it's your chance to compete, collaborate, and trust your instincts as you tackle real-world detection and response challenges.
Open to security professionals, analysts, and engineers looking to sharpen their operational skills.

Host Ctrl.Alt.Defeat for Your Team
Want to bring Ctrl.Alt.Defeat to your organization or event?
Foresite delivers custom, practitioner-led sessions — in person or virtual — built around your team’s goals.
Perfect for internal enablement, Google GTM workshops, or customer training.
Explore the Experience
Step inside Ctrl.Alt.Defeat — the hands-on Google SecOps cyber range built to test your instincts, sharpen your skills, and show how modern security operates at Google speed.
Ctrl.Alrt.Defeat is not a simulation - its a live guided experience from real-world threats our analysts have defended against.
You’ll investigate, triage, and respond to real-world attack scenarios inside Google SecOps, competing with peers to earn top scores on the leaderboard.
Each challenge reveals the power of SecOps workflows, AI-assisted triage, and the speed of Google’s detection and response capabilities — all operationalized with Foresite.
- 10 real-world attack simulations mapped to everyday SOC workflows
- Live leaderboard and guided debrief with Foresite practitioners
- Designed for events, workshops, and enablement sessions
- Built for analysts, engineers, and SOC leaders ready to push their limits
Think you can out-detect Google? Prove it.
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Role |
Why It Matters |
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Security Analysts |
Practice rapid triage, retro-hunt, and contextual investigation with sub-second search. |
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Security Engineers |
Build and tune detections, create playbooks, and extend SOAR automations. |
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SOC Leaders |
Gain situational awareness, evaluate team readiness, and see collaboration in action. |
Difficulty: 🟡🔴
Moderate to Advanced
Recommended Experience:
1+ years in Security Operations
Challenge Accepted: 🏆
Top scorers win exclusive LEGO® Star Wars™ sets — and bragging rights as the Ctrl.Alt.Defeat Champion.
Master Threat Investigation with Unified Data: Learn to rapidly investigate security incidents and perform threat hunting by querying and correlating massive volumes of normalized security telemetry within the Google SecOps platform using its Unified Data Model (UDM) and powerful search capabilities.
Accelerate Response with AI and SOAR: Gain proficiency in leveraging Generative AI (Gemini) for rapid case summaries, context-rich investigation, and playbook creation. Practice building and executing automated workflows using Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) capabilities to achieve faster Mean Time to Detect/Respond (MTTD/MTTR).
Operationalize a Modern SecOps Stack: Directly experience how an cloud-native security platform, such as Google SecOps, is operationalized in a real-world enterprise setting, including specific configuration and tuning techniques.
Security teams everywhere are fighting alert fatigue, fragmented tools, and slow response cycles.
Ctrl.Alt.Defeat shows what’s possible when speed, scale, and intelligence converge — and how Foresite helps customers transform their SOCs into catalysts for innovation.
This is security at Google speed — delivered by Foresite practitioners who live and breathe SecOps.
Prizes & Recognition
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Upcoming Ctrl.Alt.Defeat Events
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