Resources
There are lots of excellent resources for learning cybersecurity. This page lists the ones that I've used and recommend. If you have any recommendations for things that I might find useful based on the information listed here, feel free to send a message my way.
As a side note, everything in this list is either free or reasonably priced. As much as I loved the SANS courses that I got to take, they're incredibly expensive, and I'm not just going to casually recommend them.
Cybersecurity & Tech Learning Resources That I Recommend
Videos & YouTube Channels
- Professor Messer's Security+ videos
- Dr Josh Stroschein - The Cyber Yeti (malware analysis)
- LaurieWired (malware analysis & code)
- LiveOverflow's Binary Exploitation Playlist
Conference Talks, Presentations, & Training
- Antisyphon Training
- DEF CON
- Off by One Security
- PancakesCon
- SANS Digital Forensics & Incident Response
- SANS Institute
- Wild West Hackin' Fest
CTFs
- Overthewire Bandit (Linux essentials)
- CyberStart/CyberFastTrack (no longer active)
Books
- Practical Malware Analysis by Michael Sikorski & Andrew Honig
- Serious Python: Black-Belt Advice on Deployment, Scalability, Testing, and More by Julien Danjou
- High Performance Python: Practical Performant Programming for Humans by Ian Ozsvald, Micha Gorelick
- Securing DevOps: Security in the Cloud by Julien Vehent
Courses
- TCM Practical Malware Analysis and Triage course - a great course for getting started. It's kind of a spiritual successor to the original Practical Malware Analysis book. This course doesn't go nearly as in-depth as the book, but it doesn't need to. It's great for information on getting a modern malware analysis lab set up, which is one thing that the PMA book can't help with anymore. I went through the PMA book before this course, but you could certainly do it the other way around.
Resources In Progress
- TCM Beginner's Guide to IoT and Hardware Hacking
- Practical IoT Hacking: The Definitive Guide to Attacking the Internet of Things by Fotios Chantzis, Ioannis Stais, Paulino Calderon, Evangelos Deirmentzoglou & Beau Woods
Resources On My TODO List...
- Malware Data Science: Attack Detection and Attribution by Joshua Saxe & Hillary Sanders
- Nightmare: Reverse engineering & binary exploitation challenges
- The Android Malware Handbook: Detection and Analysis by Human and Machine by Qian Han, Salvador Mandujano, Sebastian Porst, V.S. Subrahmanian, Sai Deep Tetali & Yanhai Xiong
- Making my way through old Flare-On challenges
- A very long list of books from No Starch Press