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A curated list of resources for Cyber Professionals
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# Cyber-Christmas

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A Subsidiary of The Rajappan Project

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We practice Ethical Design

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Rajappan: Breaking the limits



## A curated list of resources for Cyber Professionals



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



- [Roppers Academy](https://www.hoppersroppers.org/index.html) - A guide for beginners on their first steps of their journey into cyberspace.



- [Mosse Cyber Security Institute](https://www.mosse-institute.com/certifications/mics-introduction-to-cyber-security.html) - 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](https://www.cisco.com/c/m/en_sg/partners/cisco-networking-academy/index.html) - A 15 hour Introduction to Cybersecurity.



- [The Federal Virtual Training Environment](https://fedvte.usalearning.gov/public_fedvte.php) - FedVTE provides a training free of charge and without login requirements.



- [Cisco Certified Network Associate](https://www.reddit.com/r/ccna/wiki/index) - A Subreddit dedicated to the CCNA Exam.



- [Training: Azure 900 fundamentals for education](https://info.microsoft.com/US-AzureApp-CATALOG-FY20-05May-12-TrainingAzure900fundamentalsforeducation-SRDEM15957_CatalogDisplayPage.html?fbclid=IwAR0E3ahbcZfbyiTLhHMS_AAYGUTULGetPLfSb55eLRQMZVobgnBeronXTY0) - 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. 



- [Intro to Information Security CS 6035 ](https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-information-security--ud459) - 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.



- [HU On-Demand](https://professionaled.harrisburgu.edu/online-content/) - 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. 



### Industry level Cyber Training (For Cyber Professionals)



- [CISO Workshop Training](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security/ciso-workshop/ciso-workshop) - 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.



- [Using ATT&CK for Cyber Threat Intelligence Training](https://attack.mitre.org/resources/training/cti/) - 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](https://www.securitylearningacademy.com/) - 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](https://academy.attackiq.com) - AttackIQ Academy was launched in direct response to the evolution of attackers and their methods in becoming more targeted, sophisticated, and automated.



- [Free Elastic training](https://www.elastic.co/training/free) - 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.



- [Blackhat Webcast Series](https://www.blackhat.com/html/webcast/webcast-home.html) - 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](https://www.rsaconference.com/industry-topics/curated-resources/managing-an-unprecedented-crisis-2020) - 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. 



### Upcoming Cyber Training Programs



- [DFIR DIVA](https://freetraining.dfirdiva.com/) - Free DFIR and CyberSecurity Training.



- [NorthSec Trainings](https://www.nsec.io/training-sessions/) - 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](https://www.sans.org/event/sans-2021-live-online) - 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 ](https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/663760187128439051) - 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.



### Fun Events



- [Advent of Cyber](https://www.tryhackme.com/christmas) - 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](https://holidayhackchallenge.com/2020/) -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. 



### Watchlist Recommendations



- [Our Future Without Privacy - Dystopian Short Film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h4rR3dM_7Q) - Our Future without privacy...Are we constantly being watched? Are we constantly being controlled?



- [HAK_MTL](https://youtu.be/ddASIhBp9so) - Hackers fight against the rapid rise of surveillance.



- [The Great Hack ](https://youtu.be/iX8GxLP1FHo) - 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](https://youtu.be/uaaC57tcci0) - 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](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4Q-ttyNIRAqog96mt8C8lKWzTjW6f38F) - 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](https://nostarch.com/blackhatgo) - Go Programming for Hackers and Pentesters by Tom Steele, Chris Patten, and Dan Kottmann.

Also available on [AMAZON](https://www.amazon.in/Black-Hat-Go-Programming-Pentesters-ebook/dp/B073NPY29N).



- [What happens when...](https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when#the-g-key-is-pressed) - An attempt to answer the age old interview question "What happens when you type google.com into your browser and press enter?" 



- [Building Secure & Reliable Systems](https://landing.google.com/sre/books/) - Best Practices for Designing, Implementing and Maintaining Systems (O'Reilly) By Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Ana Oprea, Piotr Lewandowski, Adam Stubblefield. 



- [The Beginner’s Guide to Information Security](https://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Guide-Information-Security-Kickstart-ebook/dp/B01JTDDSAM) - 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



- [Unsupervised Learning](https://danielmiessler.com/podcast/) - Exploring the intersection of security, technology, and society—and what might be coming next.



- [Darknet Diaries](https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/) - 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. 



- [7 Minute Security](https://7ms.us/) - A weekly infosec podcast about pentesting, blue teaming and building a career in security.



- [Getting Into Infosec](https://gettingintoinfosec.com/) - Stories of how people got jobs in Cybersecurity.



### Random



- [SANS Faculty Free Tools](https://www.sans.org/media/free/free-faculty-tools.pdf?msc=sans-free-lp)



- [Penetration testing tools Cheatsheet](https://highon.coffee/blog/penetration-testing-tools-cheat-sheet/) - A quick reference high level overview for typical penetration testing engagements. 



- [Building a Home Lab](https://systemoverlord.com/2017/10/24/building-a-home-lab-for-offensive-security-basics.html) - A home lab for Offensive Security & Security Research.



- [Beginner Reverse Engineering](https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/hg0fx/a_modest_proposal_absolutely_no_babies_involved/) - Reddit collection of beginner information on getting into Reverse Engineering.



For those who wanna break their heads reading random stuff, here you go:



- [Dark Reading](https://www.darkreading.com/) - Cyber security's comprehensive news site is now an online community for security professionals. 



- [Krebs On Security](https://krebsonsecurity.com/) - In depth security news and investigation.



- [SwiftOnSecurity](https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity) - SwiftOnSecurity Twitter for Cyber Tweets.



- [SecuriTeam](https://securiteam.com/) - A free and independent source of vulnerability information. 



- [SANS NewsBites](https://www.sans.org/newsletters/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.



Keep Searching, Keep Reading. The potential is unlimited!