Cybersecurity for Everyone: Pocket Guide Resources

Together we can rewrite the people story in cybersecurity. It starts and ends with you and me.

Let’s do it. We got this!

Start with Why

Your time is limited. Don’t waste it living someone else’s life. - Steve Jobs

Journey into Cybersecurity

If you can dream it, you can do it. - Walt Disney

We’re Losing

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

How does Cybercrime affect You and your Family?

  • IC3
  • FBI Public Service Announcement issued on July 18, 2023 - Increase in Tech Support Scams Targeting Older Adults and Directing Victims to Send Cash through Shipping Companies
  • FBI Public Service Announcement issued on November 17, 2023 - FBI Warns of Scammers Targeting Senior Citizens in Grandparent Scams and Demanding Funds by Wire, Mail, or Couriers
  • FBI Public Service Announcement issued on March 14, 2023 - The FBI Warns of a Spike in Cryptocurrency Investment Schemes
  • FBI Public Service Announcement issued on June 5, 2023 - Malicious Actors Manipulating Photos and Videos to Create Explicit Content and Sextortion Schemes
  • FBI Public Service Announcement issued on October 24, 2023 - Scammers Solicit Fake Humanitarian Donations
  • FBI Public Service Announcement issued on October 18, 2024 - Just So You Know: Foreign Threat Actors Likely to Use a Variety of Tactics to Develop and Spread Disinformation During 2024 U.S. General Election Cycle
  • FBI Public Service Announcement issued on June 24, 2024 - Fictitious Law Firms Targeting Cryptocurrency Scam Victims Offering to Recover Funds
  • Guide on 5 Common LinkedIn Scams
  • Podcast: Darknet Diaries, Episode 142, Axact (Degree fraud)
  • FTC Consumer Advice, College Degree Scams
  • FTC Consumer Advice, Student Loan and Education Scams
  • Office for Civil Rights, Breaches of unsecured protected health information affecting 500 or more individuals
  • What is a Data Broker, McAfee
  • What are Data Brokers, Discover
  • National Public Data, the hacked data broker that lost millions of Social Security numbers and more, files for bankruptcy, TechCrunch, October 14, 2024
  • The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data, KrebsOnSecurity, October 2024
  • Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Wall of Shame
  • US DHHS: FAQ Change Healthcare Cybersecurity Incident
  • 23andMe pledges $30 million to the 6.4 million people affected by data breach
  • UK National Health System (NHS) Attacks
  • HC3 releases threat profile on Qilin ransomware targeting global healthcare, other critical sectors, June 2024
  • PCI Data Security Standard
  • Verizon Annual Payment Security Report
  • Five Biggest PCI Breaches
  • ProofPoint: Lessons Learned from Heartland Breach
  • An Interview With the Target & Home Depot Hacker, KrebsOnSecurity, November 2024
  • Video: Robert Cialdini’s Six Principles of Persuasion
  • Groupthink
  • Dotcom Bubble
  • Real Estate Bubble
  • Crypto Currency Bubble
  • Nazi Propaganda
  • Newly Published Cambridge Analytica Documents Show Unlawful Support for Trump in 2016, October 16, 2020
  • ‘The Great Hack’: Cambridge Analytica is just the tip of the iceberg, July 24, 2019
  • Global Conflict Tracker
  • Video: Opening statement by CISA’s Director, Jen Easterly, on the threat of China to America’s Critical Infrastructure
  • CISA: People's Republic of China Cyber Threat
  • CISA: Nation State Cyber Actors
  • Joint FBI and CISA Statement on the People's Republic of China (PRC) Targeting of Commercial Telecommunications Infrastructure
  • United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Handbook on Children Recruited and Exploited by Terrorist and Violent Extremist Groups, 2017
  • Video: Documenting Hate: New American Nazis, PBS Frontline
  • Video: American Terror: The Military’s Problem With Extremism in the Ranks, VICE News, 2022
  • Meta drops fact checkers in US, what does this mean for the world?, Context, Thomson Reuters Foundation
  • Meta eliminates fact-checking in latest bow to Trump, AP, January 2025
  • Inside Facebook, Jan. 6 violence fueled anger, regret over missed warning signs, Washington Post, October 22, 2021
  • What the Jan. 6 probe found out about social media, but didn’t report, Washington Post, January 17, 2023
  • Select January 6th Committee Final Report and Supporting Materials Collection
  • Trump- and Musk-fueled falsehoods and threats backdrop US election, The Guardian, November 5, 2024
  • Disinformation from adversaries and Americans swamped 2024 election, The Hill, November 8, 2024
  • DHS: National Terrorism Advisory
  • GAO: The Rising Threat of Domestic Terrorism in the U.S. and Federal Efforts to Combat It

    • Knowledge is power - Francis Bacon

    How to Keep You and your Family Safe

  • WIRED: 9 Best Password Managers
  • Secure our World, How to Keep your Family Safe, CISA
  • How to help families keep children safe online, eSafety, Australia's independent regulator for online safety
  • Forbes, Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion For 1 Billion Users—Attacks Up 200%, 12/13/2024
  • Microsoft blog: Convincing a billion users to love passkeys: UX design insights from Microsoft to boost adoption and security (Identity & Access Management Best Practices)
  • Yubico, How the YubiKey Works
  • Resources on how to manage sextortion
  • Podcast: Darknet Diaries, “The Pig Butcher”
  • Video: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Pig Butchering Scams
  • Video: Bloomberg Investigates, How YouTube Scambaiters Turn the Tables on Internet Fraud
  • MissingKids.org Sextortion
  • These Apps Collect the Most Personal Data, pcmag
  • Blue Campaign, Human Trafficking Awareness Campaign by the DHS
  • Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities, 2023
  • Freeze your Credit with Equifax
  • Freeze your Credit with Experian
  • Freeze your Credit with TransUnion
  • DeleteMe
  • Atlas Data Privacy
  • Recorded Future blog, DNS Servers
  • CleanBrowsing, DNS-based content filtering
  • The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data, KrebsOnSecurity, October 2024
  • What you really sign up for when you use social media

    • An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure - Benjamin Franklin

    Plan of Action for Educators

    Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. - Nelson Mandela

    Plan of Action for Students

    Learning & Career Paths
  • CyberSeek Interactive Map
  • CyberSeek Career Pathway
  • NICCS Cyber Career Pathways Tool
  • SANS 20 Coolest Careers in Cyber
  • Book: Cybersecurity Career Master Plan: Proven Techniques and Effective Tips to Help You Advance in Your Cybersecurity Career, Dr. Gerald Auger, Jaclyn “Jax” Scott, Jonathan Helmus, Kim Nguyen
  • Book: Navigating the Cybersecurity Career Path, Helen E. Patton
  • Book: The Struggle Is Real: A Blueprint to Excelling Into The Cybersecurity Discipline, Katia Dean
    • Find your tribe: Associations
  • ISSA
  • ISACA
  • (ISC)2
  • OWASP
  • Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS)
  • Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
  • Find your Tribe, The Triangle Net website
    • Podcasts
  • Darknet Diaries
  • The CyberWire
  • Journey into Cybersecurity
    • Learning Resources & Certifications
  • CompTIA Security+
  • (ISC)2 Certified in Cybersecurity
  • Google Cybersecurity Certificate
  • Professor Messer YouTube
  • Microsoft security training
  • ISACA CISM
  • (ISC)2 certifications incl. CISSP
  • GRC Learning Resources
  • Simply Cyber, The Definitive GRC Analyst Program
  • How to Be an Ethical Hacker in 2025, TCM Security
    • Standards & Regulations
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)
  • CIS Top 18
  • HIPAA regulations
  • PCI Data Security Standards
  • EU GDPR
  • California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
    • Emotional Intelligence: Why soft skills matter.
  • Durable Skills
  • Video: The 4 domains of emotional intelligence, Daniel Goleman
  • Book: Emotional Intelligence, Why It Can Matter More than IQ, Daniel Goleman
  • Book: Emotional Intelligence 2.0, Travis Bradberry & Jean Graves
  • Book: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni
  • Video: What is Trust Actually?, Simon Sinek (YouTube)
  • Video: Ted Lasso, Believe!
  • Video: The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
    • Scholarships
  • The Triangle Net Scholarship Listing
  • WiCyS scholarships for girls and women
  • (ISC)2 & Center for Cyber Safety and Education
  • ISSA
    • Hands-on Learning
  • GenCyber Camps for Students
  • Capture The Flag: Try Hack Me
  • Capture The Flag: Hack The Box
  • Capture The Flag: Pico
    • Internships
  • Indeed Internships
  • LinkedIn Internships
  • Apprenticeships
  • ISSA AIM (Apprenticeships, Internships, and Mentorships)
  • CompTIA Apprenticeships
  • Microsoft Student Programs
  • Handshake for Students
    • For the Ladies
  • Video: Women Know Cyber
  • Women in Cybersecurity Associations
  • Hack Like A Girl
  • Book: Women Know Cyber: 100 Fascinating Females Fighting Cybercrime, Steve Morgan & Di Freeze
  • CSO, Women in Cyber Day finds those it celebrates ‘leaving in droves’

    • Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’ - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    Plan of Action for Hiring Managers and HR Leaders

  • 8 Tips for Hiring Neurodivergent Talent, DarkReading
  • Book: Great People Decisions, Why They Matter So Much, Why They are So Hard, and How You Can Master Them, Claudio Fernandez Araoz
  • Book: Who, Geoff Smart and Randy Street
  • Book: The Power of Student Agency: Looking Beyond Grit to Close the Opportunity Gap, Anindya Kundu (Author), Pedro A. Noguera:
  • CSO, Women in Cyber Day finds those it celebrates ‘leaving in droves’
  • Podcast: Journey into Cybersecurity, Adrianne George

    • If you treat your employees like they make a difference, they will. - Jim Goodnight

    Plan of Action for Business Leaders

    Books
  • Book: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni
  • Book: Sandworm, Andy Greenberg
  • Book: Great People Decisions, Why They Matter So Much, Why They are So Hard, and How You Can Master Them, Claudio Fernandez Araoz
  • Book: The 6 Types of Working Genius, Patrick Lencioni
    • The CISO Challenge
  • Trellix Finds Nearly Half of CISOs to Exit the Role Without Industry Action
  • How to handle today’s high CISO turnover
  • Former Chief Security Officer Of Uber Sentenced To Three Years’ Probation For Covering Up Data Breach Involving Millions Of Uber User Records
  • SEC Charges SolarWinds and Chief Information Security Officer with Fraud, Internal Control Failures
  • CISO Board Presentation Mistakes
  • MyCyberExec
    • Context
  • Varonis, Ransomware Statistics, Data, Trends, and Facts
  • The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History
  • SEC - Cybersecurity
    • Cybersecurity Risk Management Frameworks & Resources
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework
  • NIST Privacy Framework
  • NIST AI Risk Management Framework
  • NIST Risk Management Framework
  • FAIR Risk Management
  • ISACA, Risk Tolerance vs Risk Appetite
  • CIS, Reasonable Cybersecurity Guide
  • Video: Integrated Risk Management for Dummies, InfoSeCon2022, Cathy Olieslaeger

  • Video: Ted Lasso: Believe! (part 2)

    • Trust is the Bedrock of a Great Team - Patrick Lencioni