Resources
Resource Pages for Individuals & Businesses
Antivirus
Malware is an ever increasing threat in today’s internet. While many believe that they are not a target or that they are safe from malware, that may not be the case.
Common Myths
Common cybersecurity myths; courtesy of Secured IT Solutions. Keep yourself educated to ensure best practices.
General Security Tips
Cyber Security should always be taken seriously. This page has a lot of useful information and links on how to keep your devices and your information secure from people who would wish take it.
Reports & Whitepapers
Various security and threat reports and articles are published to provide members of all industries insight of current and emerging threats with details on case studies in addition to whitepapers on tools, tactical approaches, and strategies.
5 Tips to Help Reduce Cyber Security Risks at Home
If you do not apply basic security essentials to your home devices, attackers are able to leverage those vulnerabilities to take over your home and systems for their malicious intents. Therefore, we recommend you apply the 5 basic security practices listed on this page.
Reduce Your Impact From Security Breaches
No matter how secure you believe your healthcare provider, bank, home system, etc. are, you (more like your personal and sensitive information) will somehow be involved in a security breach. Provided are some key steps to reduce your impact when security breaches happen.
Use Strong Passphrases
A strong passphrase is an important protection to help you have safer online transactions. Provided are some steps to create a strong passphrase.
Jargon Buster
Technology and the web can be confusing, and we’ve all come across some terms that don’t make much sense. Like viruses. Or IP addresses. Or spyware. We’ve made a list of some common technical words and explained them here as simply and accurately as we can.
Free Security Awareness Training
Keeping up with the latest threats to your online security can be a daunting undertaking. Knowing what to look for and how to spot the red flags which indicate something is potentially malicious or unsafe is the first step in keeping you and your family safe online.
Cybersafe Shopping Tips for the Holidays
As shoppers eagerly hit the Internet on Black Friday and Cyber Monday to score great deals, online crooks are not far behind lurking to victimize and get great deals too.
Safeguarding the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure
Our day-to-day life depends on the country’s 16 sectors of critical infrastructure, which supply food, water, financial services, public health, communications and power along with other networks and systems. A disruption to this system, which is operated via the internet, can have significant and even catastrophic consequences for our nation.
STOP.THINK.CONNECT. Awareness Campaign Resource Pages
Pages and tips curated from STOP. THINK. CONNECT., the national online safety awareness campaign
Links to More Resources
- https://assets.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blt36c2e63521272fdc/bltff18e052c8a56106/609bdf09cf14c84a993e079a/2021_Roadmap_Web_Final_5-11-2021.pdf
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/cyber/
- https://securingthehuman.sans.org/resources/posters
- https://securingthehuman.sans.org/resources/planning
- http://targetedattacks.trendmicro.com/
| Cyber Security Awarenes Week (CSAW) | High School+ | US | https://csaw.engineering.nyu.edu |
| Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition | Collegiate | US | http://cptc.csec.rit.edu |
| Digital Forensics Cyber Quest | Collegiate | US | http://digitalforensics.securitytreasurehunt.com/ |
| Information Security Talent Search | Collegiate | US | http://uscc.cyberquests.org/ |
| National Collegiate Cyber Defense Ccmpetition (NCCDC) | Collegiate | US | http://www.nationalccdc.org |
| National Cyber League | Collegiate | US | http://www.nationalcyberleague.org/ |
| Packet Capture Analysis Cyber Quest | Collegiate | US | http://uscc.cyberquests.org/ |
| Panoply | Collegiate | Global | http://www.Cyberpanoply.com |
| CyberPatriot | High School / Middle School | US | http://www.uscyberpatriot.org |
| ASIS Capture the Flag | Over 18 | Global | https://asis-ctf.ir/home/ |
| SANS Holiday Hack Challenge | Over 18 | Global | https://holidayhackchallenge.com |
| NetWars | Over 18 | Global | http://https://www.sans.org/netwars |