A curated list of resources for Cyber Professionals

• Beginners Cyber Training (For students and new joiners to Cyber Industry)

  • Roppers Academy - A guide for beginners on their first steps of their journey into cyberspace.
  • Mosse Cyber Security Institute - CSI Certification Programs are truly worldclass with cutting-edge content that offers you uniquely-designed, hands-on practical and challenging exercises that teach skills immediately applicable in the field towards benefiting career advancement.
  • Cisco Networking Academy - A 15 hour Introduction to Cybersecurity.
  • The Federal Virtual Training Environment - FedVTE provides a training free of charge and without login requirements.
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate - A Subreddit dedicated to the CCNA Exam.
  • Training: Azure 900 fundamentals for education - Join us for this free, three-part course to improve your understanding of cloud concepts and acquire the knowledge you need to earn the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certification.
  • HU On-Demand - Most highly rated sessions from our 2019 and 2020 summits and community forums in data analytics, technology, cyber security, agile and lean methodologies, leadership, and human resources.
  • Intro to Information Security CS 6035 - Georgia Institute of Technology via Udacity. It is designed to help students with prior computer and programming knowledge — both undergraduate and graduate — understand this important priority in society today.
  • Intro to Information Security CS 6035 - Georgia Institute of Technology via Udacity. It is designed to help students with prior computer and programming knowledge — both undergraduate and graduate — understand this important priority in society today.

• Industry level Cyber Training (For Cyber Professionals)

  • Using ATT&CK for Cyber Threat Intelligence Training - This training by Katie Nickels and Adam Pennington of the ATT&CK team will help you learn how to apply ATT&CK and improve your threat intelligence practices.
  • IBM Security Learning Academy - IBM Security Learning Academy provides free technical training for IBM Security products. You can explore the course catalog and build your own curriculum by enrolling in courses.
  • AttackIQ Academy Badges - AttackIQ Academy was launched in direct response to the evolution of attackers and their methods in becoming more targeted, sophisticated, and automated.
  • Blackhat Webcast Series - Monthly webcast of varying cyber topics. I will post specific ones in the training section below sometimes, but this is worth bookmarking and checking back. They always have top tier speakers on relevant, current topics.
  • RSA Conf Curated Resources - Resource center to help provide some of the answers you may be looking for. These webcasts, videos, blogs, and more cover a variety of topics that could be useful as you strive to overcome whatever challenges are thrown your way.
  • CISO Workshop Training - The Chief Information Security Office (CISO) workshop contains a collection of security learnings, principles, and recommendations for modernizing security in your organization. This training workshop is a combination of experiences from Microsoft security teams and learnings from customers.
  • Free Elastic training - Start your Elastic journey and become an expert faster than ever — for free. Build your enterprise search, observability, security, and Elastic Stack skills with our on-demand training.

• Upcoming Cyber Training Programs

  • DFIR DIVA - Free DFIR and CyberSecurity Training.
  • NorthSec Trainings - NorthSec is pleased to announce its high-quality training sessions from Tuesday May 24 to Friday May 28, given by the absolute best experts in their field.
  • SANS Live Online Cyber Security Training - Join us for interactive training during SANS 2021 - Live Online (March 22-27, EDT), and receive relevant, applicable training from wherever you are.
  • You Don't Have to Be Crazy to Work Here - Doug Brush's 1 Hour Webinar. This talk will alleviate the stigma around mental health and stress the importance of open and frank dialog about this serious issue impacting our community.
  • DFIR DIVA - Free DFIR and CyberSecurity Training.

• Fun Events

  • Advent of Cyber - Advent of Cyber is an event aimed at helping users get started with cyber security, by releasing beginner friendly security exercises every day leading up to Christmas.
  • 2020 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge - Welcome to the 2020 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge, featuring KringleCon 3: French Hens! This year, we're hosting the event at Santa's newly renovated castle at the North Pole.
  • Advent of Cyber - Advent of Cyber is an event aimed at helping users get started with cyber security, by releasing beginner friendly security exercises every day leading up to Christmas.

• Watchlist Recommendations

  • Our Future Without Privacy - Dystopian Short Film - Our Future without privacy...Are we constantly being watched? Are we constantly being controlled?
  • HAK_MTL - Hackers fight against the rapid rise of surveillance.
  • The Social Dilemma - As digital platforms increasingly become a lifeline to stay connected, Silicon Valley insiders reveal how social media is reprogramming civilization by exposing what’s hiding on the other side of your screen.
  • Choose Your Own Cyber Adventure Series - This playlist is a collection of various roles within the information security field, mostly entry level, so folks can understand what different opportunities are out there.
  • The Great Hack - The Great Hack uncovers the dark world of data exploitation through the compelling personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal.
  • The Great Hack - The Great Hack uncovers the dark world of data exploitation through the compelling personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal.
  • The Social Dilemma - As digital platforms increasingly become a lifeline to stay connected, Silicon Valley insiders reveal how social media is reprogramming civilization by exposing what’s hiding on the other side of your screen.
  • HAK_MTL - Hackers fight against the rapid rise of surveillance.
  • Choose Your Own Cyber Adventure Series - This playlist is a collection of various roles within the information security field, mostly entry level, so folks can understand what different opportunities are out there.

• Reading Recommendations

  • Black Hat Go - Go Programming for Hackers and Pentesters by Tom Steele, Chris Patten, and Dan Kottmann.
  • AMAZON
  • Building Secure & Reliable Systems - Best Practices for Designing, Implementing and Maintaining Systems (O'Reilly) By Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Ana Oprea, Piotr Lewandowski, Adam Stubblefield.
  • What happens when... - An attempt to answer the age old interview question "What happens when you type google.com into your browser and press enter?"
  • The Beginner’s Guide to Information Security - By Limor Elbaz - Offers insight and resources to help readers embark on a career in one of the 21st century’s most important—and potentially lucrative—fields.

• Podcasts

  • Darknet Diaries - True stories from the dark side of the Internet. This is a podcast about hackers, breaches, shadow government activity, hacktivism, cybercrime, and all the things that dwell on the hidden parts of the network.
  • Getting Into Infosec - Stories of how people got jobs in Cybersecurity.
  • Unsupervised Learning - Exploring the intersection of security, technology, and society—and what might be coming next.
  • 7 Minute Security - A weekly infosec podcast about pentesting, blue teaming and building a career in security.
  • Getting Into Infosec - Stories of how people got jobs in Cybersecurity.

• Random

  • SANS Faculty Free Tools
  • Penetration testing tools Cheatsheet - A quick reference high level overview for typical penetration testing engagements.
  • Building a Home Lab - A home lab for Offensive Security & Security Research.
  • Beginner Reverse Engineering - Reddit collection of beginner information on getting into Reverse Engineering.
  • Dark Reading - Cyber security's comprehensive news site is now an online community for security professionals.
  • Krebs On Security - In depth security news and investigation.
  • SwiftOnSecurity - SwiftOnSecurity Twitter for Cyber Tweets.
  • SecuriTeam - A free and independent source of vulnerability information.
  • SANS NewsBites - A semiweekly high-level executive summary of the most important news articles that have been published on computer security during the last week. Each news item is very briefly summarized and includes a reference on the web for detailed information.