Hello Defender!

The best way to say thank you for all the support so far is just with more quality content. We’re beginning to ramp up now!

Let’s dive in!

Table of Contents

• 1. Brand

  • Community Career Resources GitHub

  • New Swag Store (finally) Teaser…

• 2. Content

  • Upskill Your SOC/IR With Tabletop - Jan 31, 1-3PM …

  • SOC100 Class 25 & 26

• 3. Community

  • Vanguard 1 Take

  • First CDCP Vanguard 10 ! Nine left…

  • SOC100 Discord Tags ready!

• 4. Tools

• 5. Takeaway This Week

1. Brand

Community Career Resources GitHub

We’ve actually provided quite a bit of free and public resources over the years but they’ve been scattered across blogs, posts, DMs, Discord channels etc.

We’ve also been growing quite a bit on the community side and getting lots of additional insights from students and members in our Discord. To that end after some reflection and gauging interest - we’re excited to announce the best of both worlds, a Community Career Resources GitHub!

• Interview Prep (Questions we ask, questions you’ve been asked or ask, etc.)

• On the Job Insights (Write ups and breakdowns of what you do on the job or in roles, example tasks, etc.)

• Skilling Up (Cert reviews, content reviews, etc.)

• Additional Resources (Books, podcasts, takeaways, etc.)

Check out the link below for a ReadMe on how to get started with it !

We’re going to migrate our Resume and Interview resources here and other items over time, and YOU can submit PRs to contribute to it! Then guess what? You can put that on your resume for some experience showing what you’re up to.

Looking forward to getting this hub filled out more over time and we’ll be expanding more on this end in the near future.

New Swag Store (finally) Teaser…

Stay tuned…

2. Content

Upskill Your SOC/IR With Tabletop - Jan 31, 1-3PM EST

LinkedIn calendar invite goes out tomorrow!

Each and every cybersecurity professional should understand how to test their IRP and a table top is an excellent way to get experience and find gaps before you need to do in realtime!

Do you know what you would do in the event you got a compromise? If not, please join us to learn how you can upscale your SOC and IR teams to be prepared when the event happens and you declare your first or next incident.

Fletus is a seasoned IT and security professional, with a career spanning since the mid-2000s when he began as an IDS handler. Throughout the years, he has managed cybersecurity initiatives in various industries, including finance, utility, and software development. Fletus holds a Master of Science in Information Systems (M.S.I.S.) specializing in Information Assurance, along with a range of certifications such as CISSP, SSAP, GISF, GSEC, GCED, GPCS, GMON, GCCC, GSLC, and GSOM. He takes great pleasure in sharing his expertise and passion for cybersecurity with others.

Current role: Sr. Manager, Security Operations & Application Security

Social media handles:

https://x.com/fletusposton 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/fletusposton

SOC100 Class 25 & 26

We break into Email Security Analysis this week and even get into looking at a cobalt strike payload attachment!

3. Community

Vanguard 1 Take

First CDCP Vanguard 10 ! Nine left…

We’ve got our first student now to complete their CDCP and achieve their Vanguard 10! Please give Robert a big shout over in Discord!

There are only NINE more of these to ever be achieved… will you be next?

SOC100 Discord Tags ready!

Congrats to Humbo to knocking out the SOC100-1 cert exam!! Humbo is also the first to have the Discord tag for it as well! Woo!

We’ll be getting to rest of the currently awarded members soon with a form to fill out and get some tags of their own.

4. Tools

Actually got a huge drop of books over in Discord by Calvin that going to put below as they’re well worth checking out:

📘 Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols, and Practice by Olivier Bonaventure

A detailed guide on networking fundamentals with step-by-step explanations of protocols.

This book is free and open-source (https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/352), but can also be purchased.

📙 A Concise Introduction to DevSecOps by Curtis Yanko and Scott McCarty

Introductory guide to foundational concepts of DevSecOps.

📗 Alice and Bob Learn Application Security by Tanya Janca

It covers the basics of threat modelling and security testing as well as more advanced topics.

📕 The Quick Guide to Cloud Computing and Cyber Security by Marcia R.T. Pistorious

A quick guide to cloud technologies and cybersecurity basics.

5. Takeaway This Week

See you next week!

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