Best Ethical hacking and Cyber-security Sites| For Beginner to advance| Learn to Hack| By TeamAmaze

Introduction:

Hey there! I think that y’all would be familiar with the term “Ethical Hacking”, right? If yes, then just skip the intro and get to the courses but if not, then let me explain. Ethical hacking (or sometimes we say ethical hacker) is a term used when a company, organization or an individual performs hacking to identify the computer or network threats like malicious viruses and cyberattacks (for security purposes).

I bet you would be interested in learning how this “thing” works and how you can become one of them or you just want to do it for fun. So, guys without wasting much time let's start. 

1. Cybrary

Started in January 2013, this site provides engaging and self-paced tutorials on different kinds of security tools to help you become an expert white-hat hacker.  You would learn from basic networking stuff to advanced testing. There’s a wide range of courses present here including penetration tester, network engineer, and many more. Also, you can filter them according to certification, skills, or level. 

And when you enroll for any course, you would see a dashboard keeping the track of your progress (for e.g., your posts on the Cybrary community, your certificates, courses you completed or doing, etc.).

These courses are absolutely free but if you want to go for assessments or exams, you would have to pay about $99/month. Plus, all of them are taught by people who are professionals in their fields of study, so don't worry about anything at all and get to study.

Here's the link to the cybersecurity course

 2. SecurityTube

Launched in 2008 by Mr. Vivek Ramachandran (a security researcher), this site has been providing free educative security courses for students. As the name implies, SecurityTube is like a YouTube of ethical hacking and cybersecurity-related content, covering almost every single topic ranging from basic penetration testing to complete analysis of hacking tools, from audit to incident response and much more. Vivek himself teaches various courses along with hundreds of other security researchers. And in case you wish to gain deep knowledge in ethical hacking, Vivek hosts extra classes on his other site “pentesterAcademy” where you can dive in the ocean of hacking and security for more.   

Here's the link to the SecurityTube courses

3. SANS Cyber Aces

SANS Institute is surely one of the best ethical hacking course providers in the world, hosting a number of high-priced educational classes tour every year. And among those paid courses, there’s the SANS Cyber Aces, a totally free one, since everyone can’t afford to pay for them. This course is helpful for anyone who seeks to learn hacking and information security from professionals, to provide safeguards to their Govt., army, or commercial organizations from cyberattacks. The SANS Institute’s staff of 300 employees works constantly to improve the quality of their courses based on students’ learning and experience. And if we look at the previous data, in 2015 alone, it mentored more than 30,000 people including professionals from almost every US Govt. agencies and their trusted allies in Europe and Asia.  

Here's the link to the SANS cyber aces course

4. Harvard/EDX

Ethical hackers try to break into systems to expose potential vulnerabilities that can be resolve before some else can misuse them. There are AIs that can analyze the movements of people within the system and quickly identify outliers who can try to break into it. You can build a career in ethical hacking by helping individuals and organizations to stay safe from cyber attacks and by exposing potential vulnerabilities in the system. Learning about things like computer security and hacking can help you to prepare for an era of tech with identity theft and cyberattacks increasingly common. 

EdX.org offers courses and certifications designed in partnership with leading cybersecurity institutions, that can help an individual who is ready to be an ethical hacker. Fight Hacking with a Career in Cybersecurity Ensure that everyone can stay safe with the direction of cybersecurity and hacking courses from EdX and build a career protecting the vulnerable. There will always be those trying to exploit the system, but you can be on the front lines of new security solutions. 

Here's the link to the courses 

5. Udemy

Udemy is an online platform that provides online video courses for ethical hacking and penetration testing. These courses include basic stuff like installing Kali Linux, using VirtualBox, basics of Linux. Advance knowledge of Tor, Proxychains, VPN, Macchanger, Nmap. Live training of cracking wifi using Aircrack, DoS attacks, SLL strip, known vulnerabilities, SQL injections, cracking Linux passwords, and many more topics. 

Udemy provides an easily approachable portal to a wide range of ethical hacking courses, both free and paid. Some suggestions to get started: Start Kali Linux, Ethical Hacking, and Penetration Testing! (Free Beginner)This course offers a complete tutorial on how to install VirtualBox, including on Windows 8.1, and run Kali Linux in any environment. You will learn how to create a virtual environment and the basics of the Linux terminal. All you need is a fast internet connection.

Kali Linux tutorial for beginners (Paid Beginner) Focuses on configuring the Kali Linux operating system to build up Linux targets from scratch to hack. It doesn't require any previous knowledge of Linux. All you need to have is only a basic understanding of networking concepts and of ethical hacking concepts such as port scanning, vulnerability scanning, and so on. 

Here's the link to the ethical hacking courses

6. StationX

StationX offers you “The Complete Ethical Hacking Course Bundle”, having all the tools you need to become a professional ethical hacker. This course is basically made for beginners, to make them understand about the security systems and obviously ethical hacking.  And on this journey Mr. Zaid Al Quraish (a computer scientist and ethical hacker) would be your instructor.

Now, let me give you a glimpse of the course. At first, you would be introduced to some basic computer or hacking terminologies. After you finish with it, you would learn how to download the required software and set a penetration testing lab. Further, you would learn about various hacking and testing practices including social engineering, testing for computer system security (using Android), websites, and networks. I think it was more than just a glimpse 😅.  

Here's the link to the courses

7. Offensive Security

Offensive Security is an American company, started in 2007, working on digital forensics, security, and penetration testing methodologies.  It also provided counseling or mentorship to many other tech companies. Apart from this, it has developed open-source and advanced digital security courses such as the ExploitDB and Kali Linux distribution for students to gain in-depth knowledge. Offensive Security offers a number of informative live-classes, online courses, and in-house training programs to help students learn about ethical hacking and security in a clear and easy-to-understand way. This website mainly focuses on providing courses in order to bring attention to the underprivileged children present in East Africa and help them stand up on their own feet.  

Here's the link to the courses

Conclusion: 

Ethical hacking is surely a never-ending journey. As you think that your job is done and the system is secured, there comes a new virus, more harmful than before. These hackers are like doctors of cybersecurity working day and night making the web, network or devices secure for us. If you really want to be one of them, you better start brushing up your skills or develop them. We presented those 7 here, which we thought are better than the rest (perhaps there are others good for you). So, choose ASAP and get to work.  And feel free to use the comments section for any queries or thoughts. 

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