LE No. 01: Black Friday Sales Live! 20% off! 1st Weekly Newsletter Blog.

1. Brand

Black Friday

Level Effect is launching its inaugural Black Friday sale offering discounts across all paid courses through December 1st.

**Course Discounts:**

- CDA (Cyber Defense Analyst): $499 → $399 (20% off)

- CDA Live: $4,499 → $3,999 (11% off)

- DE100 (Detection Engineering 100): $225 → $179 (20% off)

- ADS201 (Applied Data Science): $299 → $239 (20% off)

- CDCP (1 Attempt): $249 → $199 (20% off)

- CDCP (2 Attempt): $349 → $279 (20% off)

The CDA includes two exam attempts, and pricing will increase in January. The CDCP launches November 22 with discount eligibility.

Twitch Affiliate Status

Level Effect achieved Twitch Affiliate status, enabling enhanced streaming capabilities including custom emotes, subscriber badges, and community roles.

2. Content

SOC100

Classes 8 and 9 are now available on YouTube, covering networking fundamentals (routers, switches, subnetting, CIDR) and protocol topics (Netcat, DNS, APIs, SSH).

DE100

Development progresses toward a complete non-beta release by late December or early January. A notable feature involves a Discord "detector bot" enabling students to test detection rules against positive and negative test cases with immediate feedback.

3. Community

Community events led by students are launching soon to develop public speaking skills. Multiple testimonials highlighting course value are being collected.

4. Tools

- **it-tools.tech/bcrypt**: Companion to CyberChef offering RSA key generation, password analysis, encoding/decoding, URL parsing, and subnet calculators

- **compl-ai.org**: AI evaluation framework with EU AI Act interpretations

5. Takeaway

"Don't confuse the fundamentals or the fundamentals will confuse you."