Cybersecurity Resources
CYBERSECURITY RESOURCES
Best Cybersecurity Podcasts
Cybersecurity podcasts can provide valuable insights into the current state of the industry as well as provide tips and best practices that CISOs can incorporate into their own security strategies. Refer to this helpful article which discusses the podcasts that professionals trust most.
Internships in Cybersecurity
https://www.cyberdegrees.org/resources/cybersecurity-internships/
Refer to this helpful guide which points out the value of an internship experience and offers tips on how to find an internship that suits your interests and current skills.
The SANS Institute Reading Room
https://www.sans.org/reading-room/
More than 75,000 unique visitors read papers in the Reading Room every month and it has become the starting point for exploration of topics ranging from SCADA to wireless security, from firewalls to intrusion detection.
PACKT Publishing Books
https://www.packtpub.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=cyber
Founded in 2004 in Birmingham, UK, Packt’s mission is to help the world put software to work in new ways, through the delivery of effective learning and information services to IT professionals. Packt has published over 6,500 books and videos and their eBooks and videos are free from DRM.
Code Red Cybersecurity Training
https://codered.eccouncil.org/
EC-Council’s Code Red web site houses a large variety of individual courses that address cyber topics. The Code Red Microdegree offers a unique form of learning experience that encourages a learner to acquire specialised skill sets in a relatively short amount of time. The Microdegree program is fee-based.
The Cybersecurity Supply/Demand Heat Map
https://www.cyberseek.org/heatmap.html
Cybersecurity talent gaps exist across the country. Closing these gaps requires detailed knowledge of the cybersecurity workforce in your region. This interactive heat map provides a granular snapshot of demand and supply data for cybersecurity jobs at the state and metro area levels.
picoCTF – Free computer security game
https://picoctf.org/about.html
picoCTF is a free computer security game targeted at middle and high school students, created by security experts at Carnegie Mellon University. The game consists of a series of challenges centered around a unique storyline where participants must reverse engineer, break, hack, decrypt, or do whatever it takes to solve the challenge. The challenges are all set up with the intent of being hacked, making it an excellent, legal way to get hands-on experience.
Anyone 13 and older can play picoCTF 2019 or picoCTF 2018 year-round for fun and learning.
The National Cyber League Official Site
https://www.nationalcyberleague.org/
The NCL is a defensive and offensive puzzle-based, capture-the-flag style cybersecurity competition. Its virtual training ground helps high school and college students prepare and test themselves against cybersecurity challenges that they will likely face in the workforce. All participants play the games simultaneously during Preseason, Individual Game and Team Game.
NCL allows players of all levels to enter. Between easy, medium and hard challenges, students have multiple opportunities to really shine in areas as they excel.
The National Cyber League Player Ambassadors
This is the blog site of Kaitlyn Bestenheider and a crew of other information security aficionados who have participated in the National Cyber League (NLC) competitions and want to help others succeed as NCL competitors and as security sleuths.
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.cvedetails.com/index.php
Common Vulnerability Scoring System, CVSS, is a vulnerability scoring system designed to provide an open and standardized method for rating IT vulnerabilities. This objective approach to characterizing vulnerabilities provides users with a clear and intuitive representation of a vulnerability.This site allows users to search by vendor, product, or date range to gain insights and then subsequently make more informed decisions when trying to mitigate risks posed by the vulnerabilities.
Cybersecurity Guide
https://cybersecurityguide.org/
The Cybersecurity Guide website serves as a resource for cybersecurity-related educational opportunities. This includes information about cybersecurity degree and certification programs at all levels. Its goal is to provide the most comprehensive and current information possible.
Cyber Security Degrees
https://cybersecuritydegrees.org/
One of the only websites entirely dedicated to cyber security degrees at undergraduate and graduate levels. They have over 400 institutions in their database.
Cyber Security Online Master’s Programs
This site contains a curated guide to finding the right MBA program concentrating on cybersecurity. The guide includes a list of jobs that an online MBA in cybersecurity can prepare a person for and includes a list of some of the top online MBA programs in cybersecurity.
https://onlinemba.com/rankings/best-online-mba/cybersecurity