Center for IA/CD Education

Pennsylvania State University

 

Penn State Resources

http://ist.psu.edu/ - College of Information Sciences and Technology

http://sraclub.ist.psu.edu/ - SRA club website

http://straymarcs.net/teaching/linux-resources/ - short list of Linux resources provided by Marc Freidenberg, Linux is pretty important in this field but sadly not many students have experience in it

http://proquestcombo.safaribooksonline.com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/ - really great site we get access to as students, containts online version of books for free. Can find books about Linux, Security+, and many others

 

Course and Related Resources

http://www.personal.psu.edu/gms/class%20resource%20files/111%20Resources.htm - SRA-111 - Introduction to Security and Risk Analysis

http://www.personal.psu.edu/gms/class%20resource%20files/451%20Resources.htm - IST-451 - Network Security

http://www.personal.psu.edu/gms/class%20resource%20files/454%20Resources.htm - IST-454 - Computer and Cyber Forensics

http://www.personal.psu.edu/gms/class%20resource%20files/456%20Resources.htm - IST-456 - Information Security Management

 

Security Tools

http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage - Free Virus software with download

http://www.personal.psu.edu/gms/class%20resource%20files/454%20Resources.htm - Maybe pull some resources off from Dr.Santoro’s resource Page?

https://cve.mitre.org/ Common Vulnerabilites and Exposures. International in scope and free for public use, it is a dictionary of publicly known information security vulnerabilities and exposures

http://www.sdms.org/resources/computer.asp - 10 steps to protecting your computer

http://www.metasploit.com/ - Free and useful pen testing suite/tool

http://sectools.org/ - Continually updating ranking/listing of the top 125 security tools (good know about, not necessarily need experience in)

 

Security Tutorials and Videos

http://opensecuritytraining.info/HTID.html Free and opne course about Hacking Techniques and Intrusion Detection (site also has other free course regarding security)

http://www.professormesser.com/ free training and videos about security, networks, etc.

http://www.cyberangels.org/classes.php - Free online tutorials

http://www.securitytube.net/ - site for security/hacking/pen test information

 

Events

http://www.thecyberwire.com/events.html - This is a website that contains dates and descriptions of cyber security events all over the world. We may not need to use this link but we can most definitely pull events and such out from this page

http://ist.psu.edu/events/aggregator - IST events

http://niccs.us-cert.gov/education/cyber-competitions - cyber competitions

http://niccs.us-cert.gov/education/cyber-camps-clubs - Cyber camps and clubs

https://www.blackhat.com - website for Blackhat security conference events (contains archives of previous events, videos, discussions papers, etc)

https://www.defcon.org/ - website for defcon security conference (contains archives of previous events, videos, discussions papers, etc)

 

Web Resources and Portals

http://anti-virus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/ - Anti-virus software review for 2014

http://www.esecurityplanet.com/views - Website that contains everything from buyer guides to tips on keeping your computer safe. Similar to the cyberwire website, just without the events

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/cybersecurity/ - Huffington Post cyber security page

http://www.computerworld.com/ - General IT news

http://www.scmagazine.com/ - More security and IT news

http://www.staysafeonline.org/ - Created by the NCSA, it is a website dedicated to helping users protect their computer and giving info about cyber security and events.

http://www.nist.gov/information-technology-portal.cfm - NIST portal to news and information about various InfoSec and Cyber areas

http://www.defensenews.com/ - website which compiles news about various defense industry issues around the world (includes cyber, non-cyber, etc)

http://www.itwhitepapers.com/technology/security - Aggeregate of it security whitepapers

http://www.offensive-security.com/ - excellent resource that contains a blog, resource for certifications (excellent recognition), free and paid training courses, pen testing, and more

http://www.ethicalhacker.net/ - free online magazine for security

http://usa.kaspersky.com/internet-security-center/ - Kaspersky internet security center, news site about various and recent security issues

http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/ - news and magazine site for infosec issues

http://thehackernews.com/ - security news site

http://infosechotspot.com/ - excellent collection of information and cyber security news, can break into different topical sections

http://fcw.com/Home.aspx - excellent news blog/resource of what is happening in federal technology

http://www.networkworld.com/ - news/blog site that covers a wide range to technology and security issues

http://www.wired.com/ - magazine for various tech and security topics/articles

 

Blogs and Journals

http://hackread.com/ - Latest news on cyber crime and cyber attacks, cyber security, and current affairs

http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/#sthash.zCYjy15Q.dpbs - online magazine which publishes reports about Cyber defense issues, etc. Publishes some whitepapers, the magazine is sent via email in PDF format

https://www.schneier.com/ Bruce Schneier’s webblog covering security and security technology, Bruce is by far one of the most renown and goto security “gurus” currently

http://slashdot.org/ - Slashdot, blog with a variety ot tech and security news

http://www.engadget.com/ - lots of tech news, including new and upcomming things. Not much security related though

http://blog.coresecurity.com/ - blog about a lot of cyber and information security items

http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/ - blog about security issues

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/ - CNN security blog

http://www.theguardian.com/technology - the guardian’s technology blog/section

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology/ - BBC news tech blog/section

 

Government Resources

https://www.dhs.gov/topic/cybersecurity - The DHS cyber security page. Good page to learn more about the topic and how to protect your computer.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/cyber - FBI cyber crime page

http://www.nsa.gov/ - NSA page

https://nvd.nist.gov/ National vulnerability database managed by NIST and US government

http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/tips - Common computer security tips. Includes everything from responding to a identity theft to handling worms,viruses and malware.

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsSPs.html - NIST 800 series publican portal, this is the series of particial importance and interest to the computer security communty (e.g. 800 - 30, 800-53, etc)

http://www.defense.gov/news/ - the DoD’s site for news regarding defense issues in the world

 

Uncategorized:

http://www.staysafeonline.org/data-privacy-day/ - explains what data privacy day is (jan 28th)

http://www.dhs.gov/national-cyber-security-awareness-month - explains national cyber security awarness month (october)

http://niccs.us-cert.gov/education/internship-opportunities - allows you to search internships related to cyber security

http://www.cybersecurityresearch.org/ - Cyber security research alliance

http://www.nato.int/docu/review/2013/Cyber/timeline/EN/index.htm - history of cyber attacks

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/CSD_DocsGuide.pdf - really great guide by NIST which explains and categories their many, many publications into common categories. Makes it easier to determine which document or publication falls under what “sector”

Twitter feeds - Many of these provide up-to-the-minute security announcements

https://twitter.com/istatpennstate - IST twitter page. Maybe we could provide other links that take people to a certain twitter page. This could be useful as a resource because you can gain

https://twitter.com/hackingscience

https://twitter.com/iaclub

https://twitter.com/Cisco

https://twitter.com/IBMSecurity

https://twitter.com/mozsec

https://twitter.com/tweet_security

https://twitter.com/DeptofDefense

https://twitter.com/TenableSecurity

https://twitter.com/Computerworld

https://twitter.com/slashdot

https://twitter.com/engadget

https://twitter.com/InfoSecHotSpot

https://twitter.com/SocialMediaSec

https://twitter.com/FCWnow

https://twitter.com/BlackHatEvents

https://twitter.com/danchodanchev

https://twitter.com/CoreSecurity

https://twitter.com/securitystuff - account with provides updates of different security updates and links to news and academic articles

https://twitter.com/NetworkWorld

https://twitter.com/USCERT_gov

https://twitter.com/usnistgov

https://twitter.com/kaspersky

https://twitter.com/StaySafeOnline

https://twitter.com/ethicalhacker

https://twitter.com/whitehatsec

https://twitter.com/InfosecurityMag

https://twitter.com/TheHackersNews

https://twitter.com/schneierblog

https://twitter.com/SCMagazine

https://twitter.com/securitywatch

https://twitter.com/WebSecurityNews

https://twitter.com/SecurityTube

https://twitter.com/DHSgov

https://twitter.com/NatSecCNN

https://twitter.com/WIRED

https://twitter.com/guardiantech

https://twitter.com/BBCTech

Additional:

MOOCs - some may cover security

http://www.mooc-list.com/ - can use to search for free security and technology related courses, but this site searches across ALL known MOOC offerings, so not just one wesite’s

https://www.coursera.org/ - can use to search for free security and technology related courses

List of sites which provide free lecture videos (majority of security-related subject matter can be found under Computer Science listings)

·       http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm (videos of MIT class online for free)

·       http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

·       http://academicearth.org/