Cybersecurity Training Super Ultimate Guide (Work-In-Progress)

WELCOME

OK, so this isn’t an all-inclusive guide, but I will do my best to cover a lot of available training that is out there. Also, keep in mind that depending on when you read this article, there will inevitably be changes to either available training or the price of the training. Here is a quick agenda:

AGENDA

  • Beginner
  • Certification Training
  • Tool Training
  • General Cybersecurity (intermediate – advanced)
  • Programming
  • Defensive
  • Offensive
  • Reverse Engineering
  • CTFs
  • Miscellaneous

Enough talk, let’s go!

BEGINNER

  • TryHackMe Pre-Security Learning Path – I’ve written an article breaking this down into more details, so check it out if you’re interested. Price varies depending on the room. The majority of the rooms are free. For the ones that require a subscription, you are looking at about $10/month or $90/year.
  • CBT Nuggets Cyber and Network Security path is a great combination between certificates, videos, and virtual lab training. There are other paths like programming, cloud, sysadmin, netadmin, IT, etc. Price is either monthly for $60 or yearly for $600.
  • Udemy, LinkedIn Learning, Coursera, and EDX have several courses available. Read the description of the course and reviews and make a determination if the course is worth your time (and money in some cases). Price various on the course or plan, and some are free. Udemy always has sales going, so stay on top of it and purchase courses when they’re on sale.
  • INE Starter Pass provides free courses that covers a lot of cyber security topics.

CERTIFICATION TRAINING

  • Professor Messer is the go to for CompTia’s A+, Net+, and Sec+. His website will also lead to his YouTube channel. Is it top notch training. Price varies between Free-$100. It is very affordable.
  • CBT Nuggets provides courses for numerous certificates like CompTia, Cisco, Microsoft, AWS, CISSP, and ISACA to name a few. Price is either monthly for $60 or yearly for $600.
  • LinkedIn Learning has several courses on certificates, similar to CBT Nuggets. You can pay per course ($20-$50) or on a payment plan ($40/monthly or $25/monthly on a 1 year plan). If you are just beginning your journey, this is a good place to start.
  • Secure Ideas Pay What You Can CISSP – Virtual training that ranges between $50-$1000. For CISSP training, that’s not bad.

TOOL TRAINING

I’m not going to cover all of the tools because that would be crazy, but I’ll cover some of the more widely used ones.

  • NMAP
    • https://tryhackme.com/room/furthernmap
    • https://hackersploit-academy.thinkific.com/courses/nmap-for-penetration-testing
  • Metasploit
    • https://tryhackme.com/room/rpmetasploit
  • Burp Suite
    • https://portswigger.net/web-security
    • https://tryhackme.com/room/rpburpsuite
  • Hydra
    • https://tryhackme.com/room/hydra
  • JohnTheRipper
    • https://tryhackme.com/room/johntheripper0
  • Wireshark
    • https://tryhackme.com/room/wireshark
  • Nessus
    • https://tryhackme.com/room/rpnessusredux
  • Splunk
    • https://tryhackme.com/room/splunk101
    • https://tryhackme.com/room/bpsplunk
    • https://tryhackme.com/room/splunk2gcd5
    • https://tryhackme.com/room/splunk3zs
  • OWASP Zap
    • https://tryhackme.com/room/learnowaspzap
  • Volatility
    • https://tryhackme.com/room/bpvolatility
  • RustScan
    • https://tryhackme.com/room/rustscan
  • Autopsy
    • https://tryhackme.com/room/btautopsye0
    • https://tryhackme.com/room/autopsy2ze0
  • Elastic
    • https://www.elastic.co/training/free
  • Ghidra
    • https://ghidra.re/online-courses/

GENERAL CYBERSECURITY

  • https://courses.ine.com/
  • https://academy.attackiq.com/catalog

PROGRAMMING

  • PowerShell – https://underthewire.tech/ and https://posh-hunter.com/
  • Bash – https://overthewire.org/wargames/
  • AppSec / Secure Coding – https://academy.wehackpurple.com/collections
  • https://www.freecodecamp.org/
  • https://www.codewars.com/
  • https://leetcode.com/
  • https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/complete-guide-24-coding-bootcamps (be mindful with some of these. bottom line: you should be wary of any bootcamps that charge thousands of dollars.

DEFENSIVE

  • https://dfirdiva.com/training/
  • https://www.netresec.com/index.ashx?page=PcapFiles
  • https://securityblue.team/blue-team-labs-online/
  • https://www.malware-traffic-analysis.net/
  • https://dfirmadness.com/category/labs/the-hunt/
  • https://objective-see.com/malware.html – MAC Malware
  • https://wiki.wireshark.org/SampleCaptures
  • https://cyberdefenders.org/

OFFENSIVE

  • https://hackersacademy.com/courses

REVERSE ENGINEERING (RE)

  • https://bbinfosec.medium.com/reverse-engineering-resources-beginners-to-intermediate-guide-links-f64c207505ed
  • https://liveoverflow.com/ – also has a YouTube channel
  • https://www.begin.re/
  • https://crackmes.one/
  • https://opensecuritytraining.info/
  • https://github.com/GeoSn0w/Reverse-Engineering-Tutorials
  • https://github.com/Nikhilthegr8/custom_vulnerable_executables/tree/master/custom_vulnerable_executables
  • https://malwareunicorn.org/#/
  • https://github.com/wrongbaud/hackaday-u
  • https://nsa-codebreaker.org/resources

CTFs