Any cyber security people in here? I am currently on my second semester and having trouble understanding many of the concepts. Any advice on online tools or who to follow online to get a better understanding? Or does anyone want to be my tutor? HA.. I am sure it will all come to me as I continue. I am learning from home, didn't want the VAX.. 😄
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Learn by doing. Build a home lab and start playing both sides of the fence, red team and blue team. That will help you learn what you need to get around, and what you need to watch for.
Make reading intel reports part of your daily digest (i.e. alienvault feed, following strategic twitter accounts, etc) understanding TTPs will help you later with identifying objectives. Here's a good breakdown of a recent campaign: https://darktrace.com/blog/exploring-a-crypto-mining-campaign-which-used-the-log-4j-vulnerability
John Hammond has some good videos, example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q9-X_NRlJc
Check out Black Hills Infosec for cheap instructor lead courses.
Wow, that dark trace link is excellent, thank you.. yes, I am very worried about the understanding the LAB part of it all, not having the hands on because working from home.. I think I will need to purchase some equipment to get the hands on here.
I hate to point anybody to Reddit, but /r/homelab used to be very solid
Also, you can grab used workstations cheaply that are great for home lab machines.
Enterprise workstations from Dell, HP, or Lenovo are solid and easy to work on and can be found for as low as $50-80 on eBay.
I prefer the workstations to servers because they're not nearly as loud.