// MEET THE AUTHOR
Mo Awwad
Founder · Lead Curriculum Author · Cybersecurity Mentor
ICS/OT Security
Threat Detection & IR
SOC & Cloud
Curriculum Design
One author. Forty-five courses. One opinion about gatekeeping.
Senior Cybersecurity Specialist with a decade in defensive security operations, industrial control / OT defence, and consulting. Day-to-day work runs threat detection, incident response and SIEM programmes for enterprise environments — across sectors that include energy, government and fintech.
I built CyberMODE Grid because too many capable people fail interviews not for what they did not know — but for a cultural language nobody was teaching them. Every lesson, every lab, every capstone in Phase 1 is hand-written by me — defensive-only, plain English, evidence-first, no certification theatre.
Certified
GRID · GICSP · GCIH · CPENT + LPT Master · ECSA · CEH v10 · CDMP · SANS ICS418
Ranked
4× SANS Top-5 — ICS418 Capstone (3rd) · ICS515 Capstone (4th) · Core NetWars 5.0 (3rd) · NetWars DFIR (5th)
Authored
National Cyber Security Framework · cybersecurity awareness programmes for 26 universities
8
Pillars
45
Courses
529
Lessons
114
Labs