INE

INE is an online training company for networking, cybersecurity and cloud professionals, built around video courses paired with hands-on labs. Its own description, repeated in its news releases, calls INE "the premier provider of online networking, cybersecurity, cloud, and IT training and certifications," helping "individuals and organizations develop the technical skills needed to secure today's increasingly complex digital environments." The home page addresses businesses and individuals separately, and its lead message is workforce development for networking and cybersecurity teams.

The training model

INE describes "a continuous learn by doing training model" with four steps: Assess (skills assessment), Train (courses and learning paths), Practice (hands-on labs) and Certify (certification). It calls its training "award winning, hands-on and technically challenging" and says that teaching "how to" under ideal conditions "stops short of being work-role ready," so it builds scenarios "as close to real world circumstances as possible."

The catalog is organized into courses, learning paths, INE's own certifications and vendor certification prep. Learning paths carry a level and an hour estimate. The home page highlights Vulnerabilities (CyberSecurity professional, 8 hours), BGP Fundamentals (Networking professional, 8 hours), Getting Started with Azure Cloud (Cloud novice, 7 hours) and Beyond Security+ (CyberSecurity novice, 15 hours). Its footer adds data science to networking, cybersecurity and cloud as learning areas, and lists an instructors page.

For networking, the ISMG release on the home page summarizes INE's depth as "CCNA-, CCNP- and CCIE-level networking training, identity-management courses for zero-trust and access security, the eAIS credential for AI security, and hands-on OT training." A September 2026 release announces a new course, Implementing Segment Routing v6 (SRv6), covering IPv6-based VPN services, traffic engineering with IS-IS Flex-Algo, uSID compression and MPLS-to-SRv6 interworking. It is led by Brian McGahan, whom the release names as INE's co-founder and Director of Networking Content.

INE's own certifications

INE issues certifications as well as preparing learners for vendor exams. The home page mentions the eJPT and eCPPT practical pentesting certifications and the eAIS credential for AI security. In August 2026 it launched the Certified Identity & Access Management Associate (eIAMA), which the release describes as a "vendor-neutral, hands-on learning path that emphasizes real-world implementation rather than product-specific administration," validating skills to "implement, operate, troubleshoot, and secure identity and access management (IAM) controls." The certification covers the full identity lifecycle: identity architecture, authentication, single sign-on and federation, authorization and access policy design, privileged access and service identity security, IAM monitoring and incident response, and audit readiness. The release names its intended candidates as IAM administrators, security engineers, systems administrators, SOC analysts, cloud administrators and infrastructure teams.

The thinking behind the pentesting certifications comes through in an interview on the home page with an INE Security Ambassador, who argues that AI speeds up a tester's grunt work but cannot replace judgment. The article says eJPT and eCPPT test more than producing an exploit: "understanding the environment, choosing an appropriate methodology, validating what is actually exploitable, and communicating the result clearly."

Skill Dive labs

Skill Dive is INE's lab platform. Its page says "Pentester Academy is now Skill Dive," described as "a secure, risk-free environment to put into practice what you've learned from traditional training," with focus areas in networking, cybersecurity and cloud. Labs run in "VM simulated environments," and the page promises "hundreds of labs and lab collections" matched to career goals. Relevant Pentester Academy cybersecurity labs have been updated and moved into Skill Dive, and teams can buy Skill Dive for Teams.

Collections carry a level and a lab count. In cybersecurity, Secure Coding Defense (20 labs) works through "real-world scenarios across diverse frameworks, from .Net to Flask to Node.js"; Blue Team Defender: Securing Systems (35 labs) covers hardening web applications such as WordPress and Joomla and servers such as Apache, Nginx and MSSQL; Nuclei Security & Vulnerabilities (9 labs) teaches finding and fixing web vulnerabilities with the Nuclei scanner; Car Hacking (5 labs) covers CAN bus analysis and firmware reverse engineering in a simulation; and Azure Active Directory Pentesting has 10 labs.

Networking collections include IP Services Fundamentals (27 labs, covering NAT, HSRP, NTP, Telnet and FTP), OSPF Security & Filtering (23 labs), Advanced Routing (10 labs, with On-Demand Routing, GRE tunneling and policy routing) and Deploying Cisco Collaboration Solutions (18 labs). Cloud collections include Azure Compute Exploits & Mitigations (18 labs), AWS Core Security & Identity (19 labs) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Fundamentals (8 labs), with single labs such as Creating a Storage Bucket with Terraform.

A "Top CVEs" section turns real vulnerabilities into labs: the XZ Backdoor (CVE-2024-3094), ActiveMQ RCE and ownCloud authentication bypass (both shown with CVE-2023-46604), and Calibre arbitrary file read (CVE-2024-6781). The home page news feed follows the same thread with technical write-ups, such as an analysis of the Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center flaws CVE-2026-20079 and CVE-2026-20316 and a breakdown of PwnKit (CVE-2021-4034).

For organizations

INE says its "full-cycle training methodology was created with organizations in mind," giving them what they need "to develop, upskill, and retain employees in and across cybersecurity and networking roles." The site offers enterprise and business solutions, frameworks for workforce development, a team training roadmap builder and a chance to speak to an INE advisor. Teams are invited to schedule a demo.

Outside recognition is part of the pitch. A September 2026 release reports G2 Fall 2026 badges for Momentum Leader, Enterprise Leader, Small-Business Leader and Easiest Admin, and quotes a verified G2 reviewer, an information security leader, praising INE's "hands-on, lab-driven training that closely aligns with real-world security work." INE says it serves "Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and IT professionals worldwide."

Ownership

A September 2026 release on the home page announces that ISMG, which it describes as an intelligence and education firm focused on cybersecurity and IT, has acquired INE. The release says INE is trusted by practitioners "in more than 190 countries" and that ISMG plans to enrich INE's course and certification content and build a peer community around it.

Prices

The site links to a Pricing & Plans section; the home page and the Skill Dive page quote no prices, and businesses are pointed to a demo and an advisor.

Who it suits

INE suits network engineers working toward CCNA, CCNP or CCIE-level skills, penetration testers and defenders who learn by attacking and fixing real systems, and cloud engineers who want to practice AWS, Azure and GCP security in a sandbox. Beginners have novice-level paths such as Beyond Security+ and Getting Started with Azure Cloud. Security and networking teams get the strongest fit, with workforce frameworks, team roadmaps and lab access for groups. Learners after general software development will find the catalog centered on infrastructure and security instead.