/learn

Spot scams, lock down your accounts, and stay safe online — no tech background needed.

Coming from another career? Turn what you already know into your first security job — honest steps, no gatekeeping.

How large language models (LLMs) work, which models to use for what, how to prompt for security work, and how AI is changing offense and defense.

Everything you need to know about the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC), the Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition (PCDC), capture-the-flag (CTF) events and the National Security Agency's Codebreaker Challenge — from your first scrimmage to captaining a team.

Famous incidents told as stories — and what you would have done.

How computers, operating systems and the command line actually work.

The editor that's already on every server you'll ever touch. Modes, motions and the muscle memory that makes you fast.

Processors, memory, boot, firmware and the hardware attacks that live beneath the OS.

Packets, protocols and how to read what's on the wire.

Modern languages taught through security problems.

Write a port scanner, log parser, malware-matching rule engine and more — with and without AI.

Life in a security operations center (SOC) — logs, security information & event management (SIEM), alert triage, endpoint detection & response (EDR) and playbooks.

Turn attacker behavior into detections that actually fire.

Emulate adversaries and prove your defenses work.

Respond to incidents and reconstruct what happened.

Active Directory, Entra, Okta and single sign-on (SSO) — where most breaches start.

Pentest methodology end to end, from recon to the report.

How web apps break and how to build them so they don't.

Find what's public — about targets, companies, and yourself.

Pretexting, vishing and the psychology behind them.

Locks, badges, tailgating — the doors before the network.

Platforms, scope, your first bug, and reports that get paid.

Memory editing, packets and how anti-cheat fights back.

Read binaries like books — Ghidra, Binary Ninja, debuggers, firmware.

Safely take malware apart and write it up.

Memory corruption from the first overflow to ROP and the heap.

From Caesar ciphers to TLS — and how crypto breaks.

Identity & access management (IAM), Amazon Web Services, Azure and Google Cloud, containers and cloud incident response.

Software bills of materials (SBOMs), dependency attacks and securing build pipelines (CI/CD).

UART, JTAG, SPI and pulling firmware off real devices.

The Controller Area Network (CAN) bus, electronic control units (ECUs), diagnostics and key fobs — from real automotive research.

Wi-Fi, software-defined radio, Bluetooth, industrial control systems and phones.

Ground stations, links and the satellites above them.

The intel cycle, MITRE ATT&CK, adversary emulation and cyber threat intelligence (CTI) reporting.

How nations do cyber — structure, law, operations and careers.

Risk, frameworks, compliance regimes, policies and audits.

Building a security program, budgets, metrics and the board.

Explain risk to anyone — reports, briefings and executive summaries.

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), authorization, disclosure and staying on the right side of the line.

Honest study paths for the certs that matter, built from the lessons here.

Lesson plans, unplugged activities and club-in-a-box for teachers.

Roadmaps by role, resumes, interviews and finding your first job. Changing careers? Start with Switching Into Cyber.

Build your own practice environment.