/Cyber-Christmas

A curated list of resources for Cyber Professionals

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0AGPL-3.0

Cyber-Christmas

A Subsidiary of The Rajappan Project

We practice Ethical Design

Rajappan: Breaking the limits

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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Industry level Cyber Training (For Cyber Professionals)

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

  • 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. Also available on AMAZON.

  • 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?"

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Unsupervised Learning - Exploring the intersection of security, technology, and society—and what might be coming next.

  • 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.

  • 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

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

  • 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.

Keep Searching, Keep Reading. The potential is unlimited!