Cythority review
Cythority has grown 14% between 6 Sept 2026 and 2 Nov 2026, by its published member count. It is free to join.
A review on the numbers, not an opinion: nobody here has joined Cythority, and nothing below is a verdict.
Cythority is a free Skool community, created in September 2024, for IT and security professionals moving into cybersecurity engineering roles.[1] It offers career strategies, job leads and training.[1] The group's owner is the founder of Cythority, and the brand's YouTube channel carries the name William TJ Sims.[1][2] The channel's stated aim is to help overworked IT professionals move into cybersecurity roles without formal degrees.[2]
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- Members
- 688
- Published price
- Free to join
- no paid tier published here
- Members, last 32 days
- +61
- 1 Oct 2026 to 2 Nov 2026
- Rank by members
- #2,424
- of 6,073 sellers listed here
- Size rank in niche
- #143
- of 340 sellers listed in software and tech, by published members
- Check the Course score
- 91
- A, very strong
- Niche
- Software and tech
- 353 listed here
- Created
- 2 Sept 2024
- Skool publishes this date
- Readings
- 11
- since 6 Sept 2026
About Cythority
Cythority is a company offering managed cybersecurity services, professional development and staffing solutions, and its name combines cyber and authority.[3][4] Its VSOCaaS service provides managed threat detection, hunting and incident response for clients without an in-house SOC, while VSOC is its training programme for teams.[3] The company also runs specialised cybersecurity recruitment and provides operations, workforce development and staffing for educational institutions.[3] It says it supports organisations that lack the tools, personnel or resources to defend themselves, from small schools and non-profit organisations to under-resourced teams.[4] Its core team includes Moiz Ahmed as SOC Manager, Karizma Hanshaw as Chief Operations Officer and Sulaiman Asif as Chief Technology Officer.[3]
Sources
- Skool listing: skool.com/cythority, as collected 28 Sept 2026
- YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCGO3K3UPxoe2bpDDDshJO6g, retrieved 28 Sept 2026
- Official website: cythority.com, retrieved 28 Sept 2026
- Official website: cythority.com/about, retrieved 28 Sept 2026
Compiled by Check the Course from the sources listed, to the best of our ability.
Read from the listing’s own words: what is offered, never how well.
What is inside
Counts published by Cythority on its own page, read on 28 Sept 2026: how much is included, never how good it is. Listed as run by williamtjsims.
This community is published as free, so the figure is zero. Its members are an audience, not customers. Nothing here estimates what that audience might be worth, and no price is applied to it anywhere on this site.
Against the software and tech niche
Percentile among the other 352 software and tech listings here, each seller counted once for size.
Ahead of 91% of the 13,589 Skool communities we track, including ones without a page here, on the measures below, each read from a figure Cythority published itself.
- Size 53% of the scoreahead of 74%
- Growth 27% of the scoreahead of 75%
- Track record 20% of the scoreahead of 78%
An algorithmic position among tracked listings: not an endorsement, a guarantee or advice. How the score works.
Net member count up 14% between our first reading, on 6 Sept 2026, and our latest, on 2 Nov 2026.
Run this community?
Evidence and signals
Tracked over time
11 observations over 57 days.
Observation log
| Observed | Members | Change | Price | Ceiling / month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Nov 2026 | 688 | +10 | Free to join | Not calculated |
| 29 Oct 2026 | 678 | +6 | Free to join | Not calculated |
| 25 Oct 2026 | 672 | +5 | Free to join | Not calculated |
| 21 Oct 2026 | 667 | +6 | Free to join | Not calculated |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 661 | +6 | Free to join | Not calculated |
| 13 Oct 2026 | 655 | +11 | Free to join | Not calculated |
| 9 Oct 2026 | 644 | +4 | Free to join | Not calculated |
| 5 Oct 2026 | 640 | +13 | Free to join | Not calculated |
| 1 Oct 2026 | 627 | 0 | Free to join | Not calculated |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 627 | +24 | Not recorded | Not calculated |
| 6 Sept 2026 | 603 | Free to join | Not calculated | |
| Average per week, last 32 days1 Oct 2026 to 2 Nov 2026 | +13 | |||
| Average per week, since first reading6 Sept 2026 to 2 Nov 2026 | +10 | |||
Seller’s followers on other platforms
| Read, about monthly | YouTube | TikTok |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Oct 2026 | 270+52 | |
| 14 Sept 2026 | 218 |
Course content readings
| Observed | Posts | Modules | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Sept 2026 | 229 | 151+5 | 14 |
| 14 Sept 2026 | 229 | 146 | 14 |
| Added per week14 Sept 2026 to 28 Sept 2026 | 0 | +2.4 | 0 |
Common questions about Cythority
- What is Cythority?
- Cythority is a free Skool community, created in September 2024, for IT and security professionals moving into cybersecurity engineering roles. It offers career strategies, job leads and training.
- How much does Cythority cost?
- Cythority is free to join on Skool; its listing shows no charge, read 2 Nov 2026.
- How many members does Cythority have?
- Cythority lists 688 members, read 2 Nov 2026.
- How has Cythority's membership changed?
- From 603 members on 6 Sept 2026, our first reading, to 688 on 2 Nov 2026: up 85, or 14%.
- How does Cythority compare with other software and tech communities?
- Cythority is free to join, where the median priced software and tech listing charges $29 a month. The niche median is 595 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.
- What do you get inside Cythority?
- Cythority publishes 151 course modules, 14 courses, 229 posts, 3 admins. Communities with the most course content.
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