Cyber NOW® FREE Resources
Cyber NOW Education offers $1 mentoring by world-renowned expert, CEO, and Author Tyler Wall. Tyler has authored two editions of the award-winning best-selling book Jump-start Your SOC Analyst Career: A Roadmap to Cybersecurity Success. He holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity Management from Purdue University, a CISSP, CCSK, CEH, LRPA, Sec+, Net+, and A+, among other certifications. He has almost 15 years of experience working for some of the largest companies in the world in the Security Operations Center.
For Non-Members, a 20-minute 1$ mentoring call can be scheduled at this link:
https://calendly.com/cybernoweducation/20-minute-career-coaching
The Cyber NOW Education website contains many invaluable resources for those just starting out in cybersecurity and aspiring to become a SOC analyst. Over time, we have created these resources and sometimes have offered them for sale, resulting in us deciding to make them for the community. There are selfish reasons for doing this, so I want you to view our contributions as a symbiosis where we both get to benefit. We try not to make our free resources an advertisement, and if resources that we feel don’t provide enough value, we delete them. Without further ado here are some items you can’t miss on our website:
Welcome to Cyber NOW® Packet: We will ship you a free Welcome to Cyber NOW® packet that includes some merchandise, some light reading, and a welcome letter. Come and join the community. Get it here: https://www.cybernoweducation.com/product-page/soc-analyst-job-hunting-booklet
Resume Template: I had a professional resume writer write my resume and I am offering it with comments for free to the community so that you can use it as a template to put your information in it. You can find the resume template here: https://www.cybernoweducation.com/product-page/resume-template
Resume Review: After you have transcribed your information and made it match this template, I am offering a chance for me to take a look at it for free and work on it together as a google doc. This requires work on your end. I won’t do it for you. If you’d like me to take a look at it, email your resume to mentor@cybernoweducation.com after you’ve put your information in my template.
Job Application Tracker: We have created a nifty spreadsheet so that you can track your job applications. To make a copy of the document, visit: https://www.cybernoweducation.com/product-page/resume-template
Weekly Networking Checklist: During our mentoring we explain our rationale for needing to network and why it is the only way in these days. We created this checklist so that you can know the expected frequency that you need to be doing these things. You can download the checklist here: https://www.cybernoweducation.com/product-page/weekly-networking-checklist
Free Course: We offer a free course with a lot of value to the Cyber NOW® community. This course is Quantum Security NOW® and it is led by instructor Taimur Ijlal. We have four instructors at Cyber NOW® Taimur is one of them. Join this course and earn your certificate in Quantum Security. You can join here: https://www.cybernoweducation.com/challenge-page/quantum-security-now?programId=3279b55c-a175-4f73-b780-0169e1798017
True Entry Level SOC Analyst Jobs: Our True Entry Level SOC Analyst Job board is a crowd favorite. We conduct a job search twice a month and manually pull out relevant details that you’d want to see and make jobs low hanging fruit. We conduct statistics on the job market and present them to the community. You can access the job board here: https://www.cybernoweducation.com/soc-analyst-jobs
True Entry Level Helpdesk Jobs: Often I have to recommend to students whose visas are running out or they are in a tough financial situation to try to find work as a helpdesk analyst first. This board will open up some prospects for job hunting. You can access the job board here: https://www.cybernoweducation.com/true-entry-level-helpdesk-jobs
SOC Analyst Groups: We host several groups on our website that aspiring SOC analysts can join and contribute to. You can access the groups here: https://www.cybernoweducation.com/groups
SOC Analyst Forums: We also host an aspiring SOC analyst forum which you can earn badges and kudos in for completing courses and tasks as a member. You can access it here: https://www.cybernoweducation.com/groups
SOC Analyst FAQ: While I am mentoring, I am collecting common questions that are asked and adding them to our FAQ that is continuously growing every day. If you have a quick aspiring SOC analyst question then the answer is likely to be here: https://www.cybernoweducation.com/soc-analyst-faq
World’s Largest Aspiring SOC Analyst Knowledge Base
We host and contributed very often to the world’s largest aspiring SOC analyst knowledge base and I want to bring to light some of our more popular kbs.
How to harden windows: https://www.cybernoweducation.com/post/at-home-windows-hardening-project
Six-Part Azure Cybersecurity Labs (EXTREMELY POPULAR)
https://www.cybernoweducation.com/post/azure-infrastructure-as-code-part-one
https://www.cybernoweducation.com/post/azure-infrastructure-as-code-part-two
https://www.cybernoweducation.com/post/azure-infrastructure-as-code-part-three
https://www.cybernoweducation.com/post/azure-infrastructure-as-code-part-four
https://www.cybernoweducation.com/post/azure-infrastructure-as-code-part-five
https://www.cybernoweducation.com/post/azure-infrastructure-as-code-part-six
How to Setup a Honeypot in 30-minutes: https://www.cybernoweducation.com/post/how-to-setup-a-honeypot-in-30-minutes
Two part Serverless Labs
https://www.cybernoweducation.com/post/serverless-lab-part-one
https://www.cybernoweducation.com/post/serverless-lab
SOC Analyst Projects: https://www.cybernoweducation.com/post/soc-analyst-projects
How to do Security Analysis (Important!): https://www.cybernoweducation.com/post/how-to-do-security-analysis
How to use ChatGPT as a SOC Analyst: https://www.cybernoweducation.com/post/how-to-use-chatgpt-as-a-soc-analyst
SOC Analyst Roadmap to Success: https://www.cybernoweducation.com/post/soc-analyst-roadmap-to-success-1
How to Get a SOC Analyst Job: https://www.cybernoweducation.com/post/soc-analyst-job-hunting
SOC Analyst Tools, Concepts, and More: https://www.cybernoweducation.com/post/soc-analyst-tools-concepts-more
Areas of Expertise in the SOC: https://www.cybernoweducation.com/post/areas-of-expertise-in-the-soc
How to Network in Cybersecurity: https://www.cybernoweducation.com/post/networking-strategies-in-cybersecurity