Welcome to 2023

During 2022, I was fortunate enough to be able to take a lot of high quality training; some due to work; the rest was online remote training that anyone with a credit card could sign up for.

As I like to (try and) keep up with (some) new topics and try to understand them, I signed up for a subscription to Packt Press.The Black Friday sale was irresistible and their library of books and videos is substantial.

Another activity I like to do is solving technical challenges. I know there is lot of free events out there, but I am a fan of Blue Team Labs (https://blueteamlabs.online/) as they offer a great set of "Active Investigations" that are DFIR related. Plus there was yet another irresistible offer on Black Friday that was a great price performance.

And since we typically work in a Microsoft-concentric world, please do not forget all the resources there.

I'm doing this one .. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/paths/beginner-python/

 From  Kevin Vakani <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7017075381446828032/>

 15 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐂𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐈𝐒𝐀 (Cyber & Infrastructure Security Agency of the United States) 

1. Cloud Computing Security https://lnkd.in/dE62kGXX

2. Cloud Security - What Leaders Need to Know https://lnkd.in/dDSMg7xa

3. Cryptocurrency for Law Enforcement for the Public https://lnkd.in/dNkVm-4j

4. Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management for the Public https://lnkd.in/dxEaQA8w

5. Cyber-essentials https://lnkd.in/dCQr2ket

6. Don’t Wake Up to a Ransomware Attack https://lnkd.in/d36WV_g5

7. Foundations of Cybersecurity for Managers https://lnkd.in/dg4Ed4Gf

8. Fundamentals of Cyber Risk Management https://lnkd.in/dXjpdZMr

9. Introduction to Cyber Intelligence https://lnkd.in/dB9cgC99

10. Securing Internet-Accessible Systems https://lnkd.in/dv_nYHbP

11. Understanding DNS Attack https://lnkd.in/dErtv7Bv

12. Understanding Web and Email Server Security https://lnkd.in/djHH9vEn

13.101 Coding for the Public https://lnkd.in/dyVCFNSm

14. 101 Critical Infrastructure Protection for the Public https://lnkd.in/dWkns7_x

15. 101 Reverse Engineering for the Public https://lnkd.in/dWkns7_x


 

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