Cybersecurity Starter Guide
For Beginners and Professionals
By
Fatimah Adelodun
Training Platforms
1. Cybrary
2. Infosec Institute
3. SANS
4. Hack The Box
5. TryHackMe
6. SANS Cyber Aces Online
7. Portswigger
8. Pentester
9. Let's Defend
10. overthewire
11. Coursera
12. Udemy
Bootcamps:
2023 Best Bootcamps
Course Report
Career Pathway Tools:
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies
CompTIA’s IT Career Path Planning Tool
Cybersecurity Career Pathway
Security Certification Roadmap
Communities:
Cyblack
Diary of Hackers
Black Girls Hack
Black Girls in Cyber
Blacks in Cybersecurity
Cyber Intelligence Network
Cyversity
Minorities in Cybersecurity
#SharetheMicinCyber
Conferences:
Aspen Cyber Summit
2023 Cybersecurity Conferences
Hack Miami
RSA Conference
The Official Cyber Security Summit
WiCys
GISEC
Blackhat
Fellowships:
Tech4Dev
CyberSafe
Cyber Innovative Fellows Initiative
University of Tulsa
Publications:
Cyber Magazine
CyberScoop
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Reports:
Belfer Center’s Cyber Project
Cyberspace Solarium Commission
Cybersecurity in Application, Research and Education Lab
Cybersecurity Insiders
Global Cyber Alliance
National Cybersecurity Alliance
Free Software
Kali Linux OS
https://ubuntu.com/download
https://www.kali.org/get-kali/#kali-platforms
https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel/download
Microsoft OS
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter
Email Security - Deshashed
Web Hacking - Burp Suite
Port Scan - Nmap
Learning Resources
Networking
1. https://lnkd.in/gNm8RhtS
2. https://lnkd.in/ghqw2sHZ
3. https://lnkd.in/g4fp8WFa
Linux
1. https://lnkd.in/g7KJBUYd
2. https://lnkd.in/gUK8PU4p
CompTIA Security+
https://lnkd.in/gyFy_CG9
CISSP
https://lnkd.in/gUFjihpJ
Penetration testing
https://lnkd.in/gAdgyY6h
Web application testing
https://lnkd.in/g5FkXWej
FREE TRAININGS
1.) Cybersecurity for Everyone by the University of Maryland
https://lnkd.in/dNJcGqUK
This course is designed for students with little or no background in information technology and
cybersecurity
2.) Cloud Security Basics by the University of Minnesota
https://lnkd.in/dUhcePbB
This course introduces you to cybersecurity for the cloud. You'll learn and apply classic security
techniques to today’s cloud security problems.
3.) Introduction to Cybersecurity by the University of Washington
https://lnkd.in/dkQecqeD
This course will give you an overview of the cybersecurity landscape with national (USA) and
international perspectives.
4.) Introduction to Cyber Security by the Open University
https://lnkd.in/dJYvkbCd
In this eight-week course from The Open University, you’ll learn how to recognize online
security threats that could harm you and explore the steps you can take to minimize your risk.
5.) Internet History, Technology, and Security by the University of Michigan
https://lnkd.in/dqkg75hx
This course will open up the Internet and show you how it was created, who created it, and how
it works.
1. Introduction to cyber security
https://lnkd.in/dZeXGjcE
2. Introduction to cyber security
https://lnkd.in/dGSQS7V5
3. ISC2 -Certified in Cybersecurity
https://www.isc2.org/1mcc
4. Real-Time Cyber Threat Detection and Mitigation
https://lnkd.in/dRasUB_D
5. Enterprise and Infrastructure Security
https://lnkd.in/d5yZ3gtk
6. Penetration Testing - Discovering Vulnerabilities
https://lnkd.in/dxdcKjq7
7. Computer Forensics
https://lnkd.in/da9jUnng
8. Building a Cybersecurity Toolkit
https://lnkd.in/dkazz8kc
9. Introduction to Cybercrime
https://lnkd.in/d2T-S2AF
10. CISSP® Introduction to Information Security
https://lnkd.in/dxhcztvX
11. Cybersecurity Basics
https://lnkd.in/dKuZFWJ9
12. Introduction to Cyber Attacks
https://lnkd.in/d9MS-SAX
13. Cyberattack Countermeasure
https://lnkd.in/dJhqvhkg
Vulnerability Management
• Professor Messer
• Qualys Training on Vulnerability Management
• Cybrary - Vulnerability Management
• Pluralsight - Vulnerability Scans with Nessus
Governance/Risk/Compliance
• The Governance of Information Security
• FutureLearn Cyber Threats and Risk Management
• Professor Messer's online risk-related content
• FutureLearn, BSI
• FutureLearn, ICO Guide
• GitHub GRC Repository
Network Security
• CompTIA Network+ Professor Messer's online content, Cybrary
• Network Security Basics Pluralsight, FutureLearn
• Cisco Networking academy
• Jeremy's IT Lab CCNA course
• Graphical Network Simulator-3
Threat Intelligence
• Intro to threat intelligence
• Threat Intelligence - The Big Picture - Pluralsight
• Threat Intelligence - Professor Messer
• Threat Hunting - Professor Messer
Cybersecurity Books
• Online Danger by Dr.Eric Cole
• Ghost in the wires by Kevin Mitnick
• Women Know Cyber: 100 Fascinating Females Fighting Cybercrime
by Steve Morgan Di Freeze Freeze
• The art of Invisibility by Kevin Mitnick
• Hack the Cybersecurity Interview by Ken Underhill, Christophe Foulon, Tia
(Yatia) HopkinsThe Cybersecurity Playbook – Allison Cerra
• The Hacker Playbook - Peter Kim
• Countdown to Zero Day – Kim Zetter
• The Code Book - Simon Singh
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies - Nick Bostrom
• Confident Cyber Security - Jessica Barker
• The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security
Flaws - Dafydd Stuttard and Marcus Pinto
• Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking - Book by Christopher J. Hadnagy
• Click here to kill everybody by Bruce Schneier
Educative cybersecurity books for kids
7. The Little Cyber Engineer by Amber DeVilbiss
8. Oh, No … Hacked Again by Zinet Kemal
