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.
unignosis is an academic lab platform spun out of the Portsmouth Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Centre (PAIDS) at the University of Portsmouth. We give universities hands-on, browser-based labs in cybersecurity, AI, drones, Arduino, electrical engineering, programming and more — in one place, mapped to UK QAA outcomes.
A multi-domain lab platform built for universities — not for individuals.
unignosis is a cutting-edge teaching and assessment platform designed to give university students hands-on experience inside safe, isolated environments — at scale, across disciplines. It offers 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 Linux
A full Kali workspace inside 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
Students join via institutional invite code or SSO and are placed into their course cohort automatically.
02
Launch a lab
One click spins up a browser-based environment, pre-loaded for the discipline — Kali, Jupyter, Arduino IDE, ROS, SPICE.
03
Explore & build
Students complete challenges, build projects, run experiments — in a real, isolated environment.
04
Compete & learn
Submit work for points or grades, climb the live scoreboard, sharpen real-world skills under real assessment.
Research-led
Built on cutting-edge research in security and AI.
Academic excellence
Designed for accredited HE delivery from day one.
Industry standards
Aligned with real-world tools and practices.
UK-based
Located in Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
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.