Level Up Session Resources
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5 min readSep 1, 2023
Design Resources 🎨
To Explore 🔎
Tooling + Platforms:
To Watch 🎥
- Abstract: The Art of Design
- Rams
- Documentary By Design
- Jesse Showalter (YouTube)
- DesignCourse (YouTube)
- Relab Studios
To Read 📚
Books:
- The Design of Everyday Things
- Don’t Make Me Think
- Creative Selection: Inside Apples Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
- Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
- Just Enough Research
- Practical Design Discovery
Articles:
To Listen 🎧
Build Resources 💻
To Explore 🔎
- Developer Roadmaps — As a guide on things to potentially learn
- Microsoft based technology platforms: Microsoft Learn Modules
- Github
To Do 🚶
- Join your university clubs and societies
- Extend the functionality of a university assignment or project.
Go to developer-focused meetup:
- Junior Developers
- Frontend Developers
- Women in Technology
- Adelaide Agile Community
- .NET User Group
- Python Adelaide
- PHP Adelaide
- Adelaide Functional Programming
- Adelaide.rb (Ruby)
Go to a conference:
To Watch 🎥
- Fireship — Really good short explanations of coding concepts
- Theo Browne — Mostly JavaScript but some career advice as well
- Kevin Powell — Great for CSS and getting started with web
- Clean Code by Uncle Bob
To Read 📚
Books:
- Clean Code (to be read with care)
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
- The Pragmatic Programmer
- Pro Git book — A really great introduction to some of the more advanced features of Git if you have learnt the basics
- Learn Git Branching — An interactive site that walks you through branching in depth
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Articles:
- Patterns and Practices: Simplifying Patterns and Practices | Microsoft Learn
- Design Patterns (refactoring.guru)
- Gitflow Workflow
To Listen 🎧
DevOps Resources 🔗
To Explore 🔎/ To Do 🚶
To Watch 🎥
To Read 📚
Books:
- The DevOPS Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
- The Phoenix Project — A Novel about It, Devops, and Helping Your Business Win
- Effective DevOps — Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale
- Best 17 Books to read about DevOps
Articles:
To Listen 🎧
Security Resources 🔒
To Explore 🔎
→ All the Infosec course/training sites:
- TryHackMe
- HackTheBox
- HackTheBox Academy
- PentesterLab
- PortSwigger Academy
- TCM Security Academy
- OverTheWire Wargames
- CISCO Networking Academy
- Pwn.college
- Kase Scenarios — OSINT training
- Blue Team Labs
- Security Blue Team
→ Kali Linux (Linux Distro used by Penetration Testers)
→Deliberately Vulnerable web apps used for learning
To Do 🚶
→ Attend infosec-focused meetups
→ Go to a conference (unfortunately there aren’t many cyber cons in SA but there are plenty interstate and some online.)
- BSides — Canberra , Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Brisbane
- CrikeyCon
- ComfyCon (2024) (Online!)
- TuskCon
- AISA Events (They usually have conferences in each state)
- Australian Cyber Conference
- Well-known USA Conferences — DEFCON, Black Hat USA
→ Get involved in a club or society at your university
→ Join infosec-focused online groups (Slack, Discord etc)
- Study Sessions with Butchy is a discord server run by Butchy, an Adelaide infosec professional. (Email Daisy to ask for the link if you want to join)
→ Try setting up a Homelab
→ Work towards a certification. Entry-level certs include:
- Network+
- Security+
- Certifications by TCM Security
- OSCP (This is an intermediate certification, but it is one that many offensive security professionals strive towards.)
To Watch 🎥
TV and Movies
- Mr. Robot — Drama series about a hacker with very realistic hacking scenes
- Writeups about the technical details of the hacks in the show
- Writeups by Ryan Kazanciyan (Tech Consultant for the show in seasons 2 and 3)
- Writeups by Corey Nachreiner on GeekWire
YouTube
- The Cyber Mentor
- Professor Messer — Training for CompTIA Certs
- The PC Security Channel
- Kevin Fang — Explanations of cybersecurity incidents
- Mental Outlaw
- Techlore — more Privacy Focused
- Black Hat USA Talks
- DEFCON Talk archive
To Read 📚
Books:
Articles/Guides/Handbooks:
- The Infosec Colour Wheel
- Volkis Handbook — Public employee handbook for an Australian cybersecurity company
- OWASP Web Security Testing Guide
- HackTricks
- Redteam.guide
- OWASP Cheat Sheet Series — Tips for developers for writing secure web code
- OWASP Top 10 — List of Top 10 Security vulnerabilities in web applications released every year.
Newsletters/News Sites/Blogs:
To Listen 🎧
To Follow (Social Media)🚶♀️
- Lesley Carhart (@hacks4pancakes) Mastodon Twitter
- Ricki Burke (Cybersec People) LinkedIn
- Lina Lau (@inversecos)
- Twitter-Seclists (List of people to follow)
Leadership Resources 🦁
To Explore 🔎
- Uncle Bob Martin’s website http://cleancoder.com/products
- Lorraine Murphy https://www.lorrainemurphy.com.au/
- Project Management https://www.projectmanagement.com/
To Watch 🎥
- Ruby Midwest 2011 — Keynote: Architecture the Lost Years by Robert Martin
- Henri Fayol’s Principles of Management
- Why good leaders make you feel safe | Simon Sinek ‘Leadership is a choice not a rank’
- Classical Management Theory
To Read 📚
Books:
- The Lean Startup
- Human 2, Bold leadership through crisis and change
- The Toyota Product Development System
- Sprint, How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
- Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK guide) and the Standard for project management
Articles/Guides/Handbooks:
- Unleashing The Power Of IT Leadership: Revolutionizing The Business Landscape In The Digital Age
- ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
- What is product management?
- What Is Product Management? A Beginner’s Guide
- A guide to ITIL and its place in modern ITSM
- What is enterprise architecture? A framework for transformation
- A Practitioners’ Approach to Developing Enterprise Architecture Following the TOGAF® ADM
