Institutional Partnerships

Our services.

From onboarding to ongoing support, we're with you at every step of your cybersecurity training journey.

Teras isn't just a platform; it's a complete partnership. Every institutional deployment includes dedicated services designed to ensure your faculty, students, and institution succeed from day one.

Service 1

Train the Trainer Programme

Paid add-on service for faculty who want dedicated upskilling. We cover how to teach practitioner skills, frame labs in real-world contexts, and assess critical thinking. Faculty don't need this to deliver the programme; all content, labs, and assessments are fully pre-built and ready to use.

Paid add-on service, not included in the platform licence

Pedagogical Training

How to teach practitioner-grade cybersecurity, not just deliver slides

Platform Mastery

Deep-dive into every tool, lab, and assessment feature

Teaching Resources

Complete lesson plans, presenter notes, and timing guides

Ongoing Mentorship

Dedicated support team available throughout the academic year

Service 2

Onboarding & Deployment

From contract to first cohort in 6-8 weeks. Our dedicated implementation manager guides you through each phase of deployment.

Week 1-2

Platform Configuration

Learning pathways, student cohorts, assessment rubrics

1

Week 2-3

Faculty Onboarding

Platform walkthroughs and (optionally) Train-the-Trainer add-on sessions

2

Week 3-4

IT Coordination

Security/firewall requirements, network access

3

Week 4-8

Pilot & Launch

Student onboarding, first lessons, dedicated support

4

Service 3

Maintenance & Support

Cloud-Hosted Platform

Zero on-premise infrastructure management. We handle all hosting, scaling, and security.

Platform Stability & Monitoring

Continuous monitoring of uptime, performance, and system health with proactive incident management.

Academic Year Support

Ongoing faculty support throughout the year, including training updates and best practices.

Technical Helpdesk

Dedicated support for both institutions and students, with response times tailored to urgency.

Regular Updates & Rollouts

Continuous platform improvements, new features, and security patches without disrupting your workflow.

Threat Intelligence Updates

Automatic integration of latest CVEs, threat data, and security patterns into platform operations.

Service 4

Content Updates

Your curriculum keeps pace with the threat landscape. CFCI's practitioners refresh the content on a rolling cycle, adding new scenarios, labs and regional cases as threats and techniques change. Updates reach every institution on the platform, with nothing for your team to install or maintain.

Centrally Updated Curriculum

  • Zero maintenance for institutions
  • Refreshed on a rolling cycle
  • Written by working practitioners

Grounded in Practice

  • Skills mapped to NICE and MITRE ATT&CK
  • Labs on the tools analysts use
  • Vulnerability research with NIST NVD

Regular Content Additions

  • New scenarios & labs
  • Regional customization
  • Industry-specific modules

Your curriculum keeps pace with the threat landscape

Service 5

Custom Development

Need something specific? We build it. Whether you require institution-specific case studies, regional labs, curriculum adaptations for compliance frameworks, or guest lecturer integration, our development team collaborates with you to create exactly what your program needs.

“Need something specific? We build it.”

Bespoke module development for specific institutional needs

Institution-specific case studies and regional labs

Guest lecturer integration support

Curriculum adaptation for specific frameworks or compliance requirements

How We Partner

Partnership Model

A simple, transparent three-step process from discovery to launch

01

Discovery

30-minute platform demonstration, discuss your needs

02

Proposal

Custom deployment plan, timeline, and pricing

03

Launch

Implementation, training, and ongoing partnership

For CIOs & Heads of IT

Technical & Security Specifications

A platform your IT team can validate: modern stack, defensible security posture, and accessible by default.

Tech Stack

  • Next.js 16 + React 19 + TypeScript 5
  • Supabase (Postgres + Auth + Storage)
  • Apache Guacamole on cloud-hosted VMs for in-browser missions
  • Vercel edge hosting + global CDN

Security

  • 12+ character password policy (exceeds NIST SP 800-63B)
  • OWASP-compliant Content Security Policy headers
  • Postgres row-level security on every tenanted table
  • Per-session EC2 VM isolation for missions (torn down after each mission)
  • 4-tier RBAC: Student / Teacher / Admin / Platform-Admin

Accessibility

  • WCAG 2.1 AA target across auth, dashboard, and lab UI
  • 44×44 px minimum touch targets
  • ARIA-audited core UI

Roadmap

OT / SCADA simulator path on the 2026 roadmap

Built for heavy-industry clients: energy, utilities, and manufacturing. Ask our team about early-access for sector-specific deployments.Roadmap, not yet shipping

Ready to Transform Your Cybersecurity Programme?

Let's discuss how Teras can support your institution. Reach out to discuss your specific needs and get a custom partnership proposal.