Cybersecurity Links and Resources
Upcoming Events
- National Cyber Summit (Huntsville , AL)
- NICE K-12 Cybersecurity Education Conference
External Resources
- FBI Safe Online Surfing: Resources and activities for 3-7th grade students and teachers
- Student Programs for Careers in Intelligence: Resources for high schools to postgraduates students to receive information regarding internships, scholarships and summer programs
- Women in CyberSecurity: Resources for women interested in cybersecurity
- Consortium of Minorities in Cybersecurity: Resources for minorities interested in cybersecurity
- Cyber Forensics 4 All: Resources for students and faculty interested to learn more about cyber forensics
- The Colloquium for Information Security Education: Resources for educators, researchers, and practitioners to improve curricula and foster discussion of current and emerging trends
- National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies: Resources for the general public interested in knowing more about cybersecurity careers and studies.
- National CyberWatch: Resources for higher education institutions, businesses, and government agencies to advance education, research and strengthen the national cybersecurity workforce.
- National CyberSecurity Awareness Month: Resources for organizations interested in promoting cybersecurity awareness
- SANS Security Awareness Newsletter: Resources for the common computer users interested in improving security awareness
- NSA Outreach Programs: Resources for teachers at the K-12, undergraduate and graduate levels to engage students in STEM and Cybersecurity
- National Cybersecurity Student Association: Resources for students interested in educational and professional development in cybersecurity.
- Join InfraGard: InfraGard is a partnership between the FBI and the private sector dedicated to sharing information and intelligence to prevent hostile acts against the U.S.
- Code Breaker Challenge: The NSA Code Breaker Challenge provides students with a hands-on opportunity to develop their reverse-engineering / low-level code analysis skills while working on a realistic problem set centered around the NSA’s mission.
- National Cybersecurity League: This national competition provides collegiate students to develop, practice, and validate their cybersecurity offensive skills.
- Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense: This regional competition provides collegiate students to enhance their cyber defense skills.
- Linux Security: Feature articles to keep readers informed of the latest Linux advancements.
- Cyber Security Jobs: Cybersecurity job listings.
- Cyberseek: Cybersecurity heat map.
Internal Resources
- Cybersecurity Journals: Resources to assist students conduct research on cybersecurity topics and issues
- Cybersecurity Scholarship: Information regarding scholarship for the Cybersecurity program (please scroll all the way to the bottom)
- IT Security at Montreat College: IT Security Policies for Montreat College
Awareness
- FTC: Resources for small businesses.
- Stop Think Connect: A national public awareness campaigned aimed at increasing the understanding of cyber threats and empowering the American public to be safer and more secure online
- Stay Safe Online: A national alliance to promote individual and business’s awareness in safe online practices, partnering with K-12, higher education and community-at-large
- How to Stay Safe Online: This PBS-Nova resource aims to promote and equip students (and those young-at-heart) to stay safe online; through videos, games and engaging challenges in coding, password cracking and social engineering and others, users learn how to keep their digital lives safe
- Cost of Cyber Crime Study
- Verizon Data Breach Report
- Cybersecurity for Small Business (FCC)
- Security Wizardry Radar
- Cyber-attacks timeline and statistics
Assessment
- SANS Resource Page
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- Health Information Technology Privacy and Security
- CIS Critical Security Controls: Follow a prioritized set of actions to protect your organization and data from cyber-attack vectors
Action
- FBI list of field offices to report ransomware
- Secret Service field office to report ransomware
- Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency: Cyber Guidance for Small Business
- Common Weakness Enumeration: CWE provides a unified, measurable set of software weakness that is enabling a more effective discussion, description, selection and use of software security
- Spiceworks: Free Helpdesk and Device Inventory Software