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/IBMSecurity
https://twitter.com/tweet_security
https://twitter.com/DeptofDefense
https://twitter.com/TenableSecurity
https://twitter.com/Computerworld
https://twitter.com/InfoSecHotSpot
https://twitter.com/SocialMediaSec
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/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/guardiantech
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)
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http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
(videos of MIT class online for free)
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http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses