🔥 The DB Grill 🔥

Ah, yes. I’ve just finished reading this... proclamation. And I have to say, Elastic, this is a truly bold move. Simply inspired. Unveiling a "new approach" to training is so wonderfully optimistic. It’s like building a beautiful, ornate front door and forgetting to install a lock. Or a wall. Or a foundation.

It’s just fantastic that these courses are free. That’s the oldest social engineering trick in the book, isn't it? The Trojan Horse of professional development. You dangle a shiny, "free" carrot, and in return, you get a beautiful, harvestable database of user information. Names, emails, job titles, the companies they work for… all sitting in what I can only assume is an S3 bucket with a public read policy, just waiting to be scraped by the first bot that comes along. “What’s the cost?” you ask. Don’t worry, the threat actors will send you the invoice later.

And the modular, on-demand nature of it all? A masterpiece of attack surface expansion. Every "module" is another API endpoint, another microservice, another potential entry point for a SQL injection or a cross-site scripting attack. I can see it now:

• The user profile page is probably vulnerable to stored XSS, turning every student’s browser into a crypto miner.
• The login portal, I'm sure, has no rate limiting, making it a playground for credential stuffing. “What’s your password? Is it ‘password123’?” Don’t worry, the script kiddies will find out in about six minutes.
• Each "high-impact module" is likely just an iframe pulling content from a dozen different, poorly-configured CDNs, creating a beautiful tapestry of session hijacking opportunities.

...staying aligned with industry best practices.

Oh, this is my favorite part. Which industry? The one that still thinks a WAF is a magical security shield? Show me the SOC 2 Type II report. Show me the penetration test results. I want to see the audit trail for this "alignment," because from where I'm sitting, "best practices" looks a lot like a marketing team read a Wikipedia article on security and called it a day. You’re not building skills; you’re building a beautifully aggregated list of targets for the next Log4j-style vulnerability. It’s not a learning platform; it’s a pre-packaged corporate espionage kit.

This whole thing is a compliance officer's nightmare, wrapped in a developer's dream. Every feature you've described is a CVE waiting for a number.

Thanks for the new training platform. I'll be using it to teach my junior pen-testers how to find low-hanging fruit.