You’ve probably heard of Cyber Mounties or Delta Obscura. I founded Cyber Mounties in May 2025 to fill one of the biggest gaps in Canada’s national security: aggressive, unapologetic cyber talent cultivation.

Let’s get one thing straight, you don’t need a PhD or a government security clearance to build a real cyber ecosystem. What you do need is the ability to read the room, and the kind of leadership that gets people with full-time jobs and packed schedules to willingly throw down with your team because they believe it’s going to matter.

What did we build?

In May 2025, I registered Cyber Mounties Canada Inc. as a business in the city of Brampton, Ontario.

But the groundwork started earlier. After teaming up with Luke Smith in January 2025, we laid out a plan to build a vulnerability research team spanning North America and Europe. Around that time, I started thinking seriously about making our operations legit, not just a crew of skilled individuals, but a real entity where our members could gain meaningful experience and stand on solid ground. That led to the creation of cyberm.ca, our official site.

In June, we launched academy.cyberm.ca, a multilingual training platform built for one purpose: to train our own people in our own doctrines, real cyber operations, not theory. We didn’t just want to assemble a team; we wanted to build one from scratch, with the right mindset and the right tools.

To attract talent from around the world, we knew we had to break the language barrier. That’s why we’re translating our material into English, French, Spanish, German, and Portuguese. If you want people to work with you, start by making it easy for them to want to, respect their language, respect their culture.

At Cyber Mounties, we operate on radical meritocracy. We don’t care if you identify as ze/zim, LGBTQ+, Russian, Chinese, Iranian, French, Mexican, if you’re talented and you believe in the mission, you’re in. Simple as that.

The arms of Cyber Mounties

Cyber Mounties Canada operates through several distinct arms, each designed to serve a specific need within the cyber ecosystem.

But serving a purpose isn’t enough. Every arm must also prove its capability through actions that can be verified, recognized, and peer-reviewed by industry experts. That’s how we build legitimacy: not by talking, but by showing what we can actually do.

Delta Obscura

Delta Obscura is the research arm of Cyber Mounties responsible for leading and executing high-impact cyber missions. One of its completed flagship initiatives was Mission Cyber Sentinel, an international cybersecurity operation focused on protecting over 446,000+ digital assets, including websites, servers, and IoT devices.

The mission’s core objective was to identify vulnerabilities in widely used open-source software, report them through responsible disclosure, and secure CVE tracking IDs, all to strengthen the global cybersecurity posture.

Mission Cyber Sentinel delivered on three key fronts:

1. Competence: Demonstrated verifiable expertise recognized by industry professionals.
2. Value: Actively defended digital assets and the people who depend on them.
3. Teamwork: Showcased true collaboration between independent researchers and vendors.

These were measurable, tangible outcomes, the kind that established Delta Obscura’s credibility and proved what each arm of Cyber Mounties is capable of.

Cyber Mounties Academy

The Cyber Mounties Academy is our training ground, built to equip people with critical skills in areas like Cyber Threat Intelligence, which is essential to the national security of Canada and beyond. On August 6th, 2025, we launched our first course focused on this exact topic.

This course and the Academy exist to prepare individuals to meaningfully contribute to global cybersecurity efforts.

We believe there’s a massive well of untapped potential out there. That’s why the course is available in five languages: to break down barriers and reach skilled minds across the world who are ready to step up.

Current state of Cyber Mounties

Right now, we have two active arms, and while we have bigger ambitions, two is a solid start. It's not enough, but it's something real.

Even with just these two, we've managed to teach people, and we've attracted interest from across borders, different countries, different nationalities. No, the numbers aren’t in the dozens or hundreds yet, but we're getting there.

Who knows?
Maybe one day we'll become the gold standard for cybersecurity competence.

Cyber Mounties is built on Canadian values, especially multiculturalism. That gives us a huge edge. Our openness to different cultures and people doesn’t just reflect who we are, it fuels our growth.

Cyber Mounties Academy is where we train the next generation of cybersecurity talent.
Delta Obscura is where we test them, through real-world missions, mentorship, and talent cultivation.

We’re building something that lasts.

The future of Cyber Mounties

The good thing about Cyber Mounties?
We weren’t built with the blessing of any corporation or government agency and that’s our strength. We’re agile. We move fast. And by fast, I mean decisions get made with a single Discord message. No committees, no endless meetings, no parade of "experts" standing around with Tim Hortons cups in hand. Just pure competence in motion. That’s why we’re moving so quickly.

We started in January 2025. It’s now August and a huge chunk of our cyber ecosystem is already in place. This is what happens when you don’t sit around waiting for government funding.

In 2025, our goal is to partner with researchers from the following countries:

Between now and 2030, the expansion will include just about every major cyber power on the planet.

Young people are tired of bureaucracy. They want a place where they’re accepted, not criminalized, restricted, or punished. They’ll join us because there’s simply no other team like Cyber Mounties.

Thank you

I would like to express my personal gratitude to everyone who helped make this journey possible:

• Luke Smith
• Alasdair Gorniak
• Alexandru Ionut Raducu