Cohort 07 — applications close March 14
Cyconet is a cybersecurity academy and tech school, a solutions agency, and a co-working tech hub — in one building. Train with engineers who still ship, hire us to build it, or take a desk beside the people who do.
Our graduates work at
Graduates
trained since 2019
Hiring partners
actively recruiting
Placement rate
within 6 months
Active courses
across 5 tracks
What Cyconet is
A school that teaches it, an agency that ships it, and a hub where both happen in the same building. Each arm makes the other two better.
Our flagship school. Offensive and defensive security taught in a live attack range, plus full tracks in software engineering, data science, AI and cloud. Beginners welcome; no degree required.
The consultancy that keeps our teaching honest. We build software, secure infrastructure and run cloud migrations for clients — then feed those real engagements straight back into the classroom.
A workspace built for people who build. Fibre, backup power, meeting rooms and an event floor — surrounded by the engineers, founders and graduates who already work here.
Programs
Every track is full-time, project-based and taught by engineers still working in the field. Cybersecurity is our flagship — the rest of the curriculum grew out of it.
Why Cyconet
Most schools teach from a syllabus written years ago. Ours is rewritten by the engineers delivering client work in the building next door.
No passive lectures. Every week ends with something deployed, code-reviewed and defended in front of your cohort — the same loop you will run on the job.
Your instructors work on live client engagements in our solutions agency, not just in a classroom. Weekly 1:1s, live pairing and review on your actual repositories.
Interview drills, salary negotiation, portfolio review and warm introductions to our 180+ hiring partners — support continues until you sign an offer.
Small groups capped at 24, moving through the curriculum together, with a desk in our co-working hub and a network that outlasts graduation.
Tech Solutions Agency
From our base on Akala Expressway in Ibadan, our agency takes on security, software, cloud and data engagements for clients across Nigeria and West Africa — senior-led, documented, and handed over without lock-in.
We probe your systems the way an attacker would, then hand you a prioritised remediation plan your engineers can actually execute.
Senior-led product teams that design, build and ship web and mobile applications — with handover documentation, not lock-in.
Migrations, cost reduction and CI/CD pipelines that let your team deploy on a Friday without flinching.
From a first dashboard to a deployed model with evaluation you can defend to a regulator or a board.
Have something that needs building, securing or migrating?
Start a projectCo-Working Tech Hub
Fibre, backup power and 24/7 access — surrounded by the engineers, founders and graduates already working in the building. Day passes through to private team suites.
₦7,500 per day
A hot desk, full bandwidth and the run of the common areas. No commitment.
₦85,000 per month
Your own dedicated desk, meeting room credits and after-hours access. Our most popular plan.
From ₦480,000 per month
A private lockable studio for teams of four to twelve, with everything in Resident included.
Instructors
Every instructor splits their week between teaching and live client work in our solutions agency. You are learning from someone whose code shipped this month.
Head of Security
Cybersecurity Academy
Former incident responder for a pan-African fintech. Runs the live attack range where students defend real infrastructure against real traffic.
Lead Instructor
Software Engineering
Ten years building payment infrastructure at scale. Adaeze designed the engineering curriculum around the code reviews she wished she had received as a junior.
Principal Data Scientist
Data Science & AI
Built forecasting systems serving millions of daily decisions. Teaches modelling with an obsession for evaluation, not just accuracy on a slide.
Cloud Architect
Cloud Computing
Migrated three companies off single-server deployments. Ruth teaches infrastructure the way she runs it — from an empty account to a signed-off audit.
Student outcomes
Four thousand people have come through Cyconet. These are four of them, in their own words.
Admissions
No degree required, no application fee, and an honest conversation before you commit. The whole process usually takes under two weeks.
15 minutes
Tell us your background and which track you want. No degree required and no application fee — we care about how you think, not what you have already studied.
90 minutes, at home
A practical problem-solving exercise rather than a trivia quiz. It tells us where to start you, and tells you honestly whether the pace will suit you.
30 minutes, video
A conversation with the person who will actually teach you. Bring your questions about the curriculum, the workload and what the weeks demand.
Within 5 days
Accepted candidates receive a seat offer, a financing plan — upfront, instalments or income-share — and pre-work to complete before day one.
Cohort 07 closes on March 14.
Seats are capped at 24 per track, and the cybersecurity cohort fills first.
Questions
Still unsure? Admissions answers email within one working day.
No. The cybersecurity track starts from first principles — networking, operating systems and threat modelling — and takes complete beginners to job-ready in 14 weeks. What we do ask for is the time: it is a full-time, intensive programme.
We run a tech solutions agency alongside the academy. Your instructors are delivering live client engagements — security audits, cloud migrations, product builds — and those real problems become your coursework. You also get a desk in our co-working tech hub, so you learn surrounded by working engineers rather than only other students.
Yes. Job support includes interview drills, portfolio review, salary negotiation coaching and warm introductions to our 180+ hiring partners. Support continues after graduation until you sign an offer. 92% of graduates are placed within six months.
Yes. Our tech solutions agency takes on security audits and penetration testing, custom software delivery, cloud and DevOps engineering, and data and AI consulting. Engagements are senior-led and handed over with full documentation.
Fibre internet with full backup power, 24/7 secure keycard access, bookable meeting and call rooms, a 120-seat event floor and a recording studio. Plans run from a daily hot desk to private lockable team suites.