Isolated team networks
Each cohort and each student gets a private, isolated environment. Fair, secure, contained.
About unignosis
Training the next generation of multi-disciplinary professionals.
A spin-out from the Portsmouth Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Centre (PAIDS) at the University of Portsmouth. Hands-on, browser-based labs across cybersecurity, AI, drones, Arduino, EEE and programming, mapped to UK QAA outcomes.
A multi-domain lab platform built for universities, not for individuals.
A teaching and assessment platform giving university students hands-on experience inside safe, isolated environments, at scale, across disciplines.
Realistic scenarios where learners practise penetration testing, machine-learning experimentation, embedded systems development, drone simulation, circuit design and more, all from a browser. Built on modern containerisation and isolated network design, unignosis spins up a private environment for every student.
No cross-contamination. No local installation. No VMs. Just an institutional URL and a browser tab. Whether the cohort is twenty undergraduates or two thousand, the experience scales, and the IT team's burden does not.
100%
Browser-based access. No installs, no VMs.
24/7
Always-on platform availability.
Per-student
Isolated environments. No cross-contamination.
Real-world
Genuine tools and scenarios, not toy exercises.
Everything a university needs in one platform.
The features that make unignosis production-grade for accredited delivery, not just a demo.
Browser-based Kali
A full Kali workspace in the browser. Every tool, no local installation, no compatibility headaches.
Vulnerable applications
Practise on real-world vulnerable apps: Juice Shop, DVWA, custom institutional challenges.
Live scoreboard & analytics
Real-time competition tracking, lecturer dashboards, cohort-wide progress visualisation.
Flag & assignment submission
Capture flags or submit coursework through a single streamlined interface, auto-marked where possible.
Team collaboration
Shared workspaces with built-in chat, code sharing and synchronised lab state for group projects.
How it works.
From institutional onboarding to a student's first running lab, in minutes.
01 · Register
Join via SSO
Students join via institutional invite code or SSO and are placed into their course cohort automatically.
02 · Launch
One-click labs
One click spins up a browser-based environment, pre-loaded for the discipline: Kali, Jupyter, Arduino IDE, ROS, SPICE.
03 · Build
Real environments
Students complete challenges, build projects and run experiments, in real, isolated environments.
University of Portsmouth
A spin-out of the Portsmouth AI & Data Science Centre.
unignosis was developed at the University of Portsmouth, one of the UK's leading institutions for cybersecurity research and education, built and maintained by the Portsmouth Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Centre (PAIDS), within the School of Computing.
Security experts and educators from Portsmouth.
The supervisors, researchers and developers behind unignosis.
Prof. Stavros Shiaeles
SupervisorProfessor at the University of Portsmouth, School of Computing. Research areas: cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
Dr. Katerina Kanta
SupervisorLecturer at the University of Portsmouth, School of Computing. Research areas: cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
Shariar Kabir
Researcher & Platform LeadResearcher and lead platform developer. Research areas: artificial intelligence and applied learning systems.
Danial Miah
Researcher & DeveloperResearcher and developer. Research areas: artificial intelligence and penetration testing.
Ready to start your journey?
Join unignosis and give your students hands-on labs for any discipline.