Zamlom

Most security training is compliance theater. It tests whether you can memorize a definition, not whether you can make the right call when three alerts fire at once and someone's asking who has authority to pull the plug.

Real retention doesn't come from a 4-hour annual video. It comes from daily, low-friction practice — the same reason spaced repetition works for language learning. Security concepts decay the moment you stop touching them, and a plan nobody's ever practiced tends to fall apart exactly when it matters most.

We built Zamlom around two daily reflexes:

1. 5-minute spaced practice across architecture, cloud, SOC, and GRC tracks — the engine tracks what you've already covered and resurfaces it right before you'd forget it.

2. Live multiplayer tabletops that simulate a real breach in real time, with a facilitator role, live injects, and a board-ready After-Action Report at the end — without the five-figure consulting retainer.

It's free to start. Pick a track or run a tabletop pilot at zamlom.com.

I didn't set out to build a product. Someone I know took the CISSP, and I got curious whether I could pass it too. I hadn't even gotten as far as buying the study book yet — I just threw together a simple HTML file with some definitions and quiz questions to test myself and see how much I already knew. Then I started having fun adding to it — a streak counter here, XP there — and over the course of a few weeks it organically turned into something way bigger than a self-test. Tabletop exercises, an AAR generator, multiplayer, an admin backend — none of it was the plan on day one, it just kept growing because I kept enjoying building it. I've built the whole thing solo.

Where I'm at right now: I'm deliberately not focused on monetizing it. There's a team/enterprise angle I think could be worth something down the line, but right now the priority is making the platform itself genuinely good — something people actually get value out of — before I worry about charging for any of it.

The personal reason I keep coming back to it: I've got two young kids and a schedule that doesn't have room for sitting down and studying for hours at a stretch. This platform has basically replaced the time I'd otherwise spend mindlessly scrolling Reels — a few minutes here and there, actually learning something and staying sharp in my field instead.

Still very much a work in progress and solo-built, so I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback, especially on whether the tabletop scenarios feel realistic to anyone who's been through the real thing. zamlom.com if you want to poke around.