Safety and ethics

Responsible Use Policy

CyberPath supports cybersecurity education that improves defensive understanding and professional assessment skills inside explicit legal and ethical boundaries.

Core rule: Use all referenced knowledge and resources only in purpose-built labs, exam environments, systems you own, or systems you are explicitly authorized to test.

Permitted educational use

You may use CyberPath to organize study, compare certification paths, learn foundational concepts, practise in authorized labs, improve documentation, and prepare for provider-controlled assessments. Always follow the rules of the lab, course, employer, customer, or certification provider.

Prohibited use

CyberPath must not be used to access, disrupt, damage, monitor, deceive, or obtain data from any device, account, application, network, or service without authorization. Do not test public targets, bypass access controls, distribute malicious code, steal credentials, evade lawful monitoring, violate exam integrity, or interfere with another person's systems.

No authorization is created here

A roadmap, external link, lab technique, or certification objective does not grant permission to test a system. Authorization must come from the system owner or from the clearly published rules of a purpose-built learning platform.

External learning platforms

Third-party platforms control their own environments, accounts, content, licenses, and acceptable-use rules. Follow their current terms. CyberPath does not host vulnerable targets, exploits, malware, stolen data, or unauthorized access services.

Safe disclosure

If you encounter an unexpected issue outside a lab, stop testing, collect no more data than necessary, and use the owner's published vulnerability disclosure process. Do not publish secrets, personal information, private course material, or exam content.

Enforcement

CyberPath may restrict access to account features when there is a credible indication of misuse. Serious unlawful activity may be reported where required by law. Questions about scope should be resolved before any activity begins.