How to learn when hands-off?

I work in a hands-off environment with relatively strict separation of duties, which means the cyber team I belong to is not authorized to access or modify any systems directly. We are more like internal advisors and have authority to deny things from going through if necessary. How do you learn the hands-on components of cyber in such an environment? Personal labs? I want to learn everything about cloud, k8s, terraform, etc, but I never get to directly interact with …

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