“Fear of failure. I want you to be afraid of Failure. Imagine waking up in six days or six weeks or six years or sixty years and being no closer to your goal. You have made no progress.”
— Jocko Willink

Learning Materials

The goal here is curate a list of learning material for literally everything you may way wish to study. This list will include blue team, red team, programming and just about anything else that may come to mind. If you are a tinkerer I will not forget about you either.

I will not have everything, but I plan on creating some social media accounts so you can message me and let me know what to add. Let’s learn and grow together.

Skill-up Resources:

  • CompTIA - Usually the building blocks of most peoples knowledge, great place to start, mostly theory

  • ElearningSecurity (INE) - Great courses and exams $400

  • Offensive Security - The course and labs are fun, INE I enjoy more though and I would say better price

  • EC-Council - (I was CEH certified but it is glorified Security+)

  • HacktheBox - Learn to be a hacker - Who doesnt want that?

  • Tryhackme - Amazing site for an amazing value.

  • Udemy - Personally one of my favorite sites to learn something quickly and branch out on my own projects

  • Skillshare - Heard it was fantastic, listing for your knowledge

  • Coursera - Can be expensive as well but if you wanted a degree you could even complete it here

  • APISec - Newer resources, but I expect them to be a game changer in the industry

  • Pluralsight - This is pricy but great courses

  • Microsoft Learning - Has all their training free and the certifications only cost you

  • Amazon - AWS has tons of resources to check out and certifications cheap

Fantastic Resources:

Paul Jerimy Certification Roadmap - This website gives a layout of a great deal of certifications in the industry and a path for you to follow if you do not have one of your own.

Books:

Zed Shaw’s Learn Python3 the Hard Way - If you want to learn to use python, go read this.

Java Programming by Joyce Farrell - Read this in College undergrad. I think it is a great resource but you can begin programming with out a book. Just start

Linux Bible 10th edition - Learning about linux would benefit you

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python - If you need a path its a great book, my brother used it to start his coding journey

Learn Windows Powershell in a Month of Lunches - fun book I used it in my consulting job and learned a lot, unfortunately have not touched these skills in quite a while

The Art of Intrusion by Kevin Mitnick - Huge fan of the Kevin Mitnick books, RIP.

Social Engineering by Christopher Hadnagy - Learn from a social engineering expert

Podcasts:

Darknet Diaries - Presents stories on cybersecurity in a fascinating way

Malicious Life by Cybereason - “tells the unknown stories of the history of cybersecurity, with comments and reflections by real hackers, security experts, journalists, and politicians” -per their website

Youtube Channels:

TCM Security - Accountant turned hacker, go listen to him he has been making waves in the security industry

IppSec - Works on walkthroughs on Hack The Box

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