Under the NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION (NICE), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has provided information and links to free and low-cost security training content.
Find the related materials published by NIST in the table below.
| Name and Hyperlink to Materials | Description |
|---|---|
| Career Explorations: Cybersecurity | Free cybersecurity curriculum for 5th – 10th graders. |
| Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Workshop Training | Collection of security learnings, principles, and recommendations for modernizing security in your organization. |
| CLARK Center Plan C | Free cybersecurity curriculum that is primarily video-based or provide online assignments that can be easily integrated into a virtual learning environments. |
| CompTIA | Free online training for CompTIA IT Fundamentals and other resources. |
| Culture of Cybersecurity | Free, downloadable kids activities to help your family learn basic cybersecurity concepts and defense strategies. |
| Cyber Security for Remote Workers Staff Awareness E-learning Course | Low cost non-technical course help employees remain safe, and understand what to do if and when they experience a cyber attack or phishing scam. |
| CybSafe Remote Working Toolkit | Free (3 months) access to cyber security modules (including social engineering, public Wi-Fi, and device security) plus Assist (security FAQs, advice, and guidance) and Protect (interactive security behaviours and habits checklist) tools. |
| Cybrary | Free information technology and cybersecurity training portal. |
| EC-Council | Free resources for the information security community in the form of webinars, blogs, online video training, and much more. |
| Elastic | Free on-demand Elastic Stack, observability, and security courses. |
| Federal Virtual Training Environment (FedVTE) | Free online cybersecurity training for federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government employees, federal contractors, and US military veterans. |
| Fortinet | Free access to the FortiGate Essentials Training Course and Network Security Expert courses 1 and 2. |
| Fundamentals of Cybersecurity Information | Free (sign up and use class code 2A4E1) courses for middle and high school students. |
| Hack.me | Free community based project where you can build, host and share vulnerable web application code for educational and research purposes. |
| Hacker101 | Free class for web security. |
| Holistic Information Security Practitioner Institute (HISPI) | Heavily discounted (use code HISPI-COVID-19) online, on-demand Cyber Security Management Course. |
| Hopper’s Roppers Security Training | Community built around a series of free courses that provide training to beginners in the security field. |
| IBM (hosted by Coursera) | Free (7-day trial) suite of courses on IT Fundamentals for Cybersecurity Specialization. |
| IBM Security Learning Academy | Free technical training for IBM Security products. |
| Infosec Skills | Free access (7-day trial; low cost after trial) to 500+ courses, 70+ learning paths, and 100+ browser-based labs for IT, security, and engineering professionals. |
| Information Security and Cyber Security Staff Awareness E-Learning Course | Low cost course aimed employees who are involved in processing information, use information technology in their daily job, or use the Internet as a means of conducting business. |
| (ISC)2 Webinars and Courses | Free technical webinars and courses to earn Continuing Professional Education (CPEs). |
| (ISC)2 Utilizing Big Data | Free course for (ISC)2 members (low cost for non-members) that provides an overview of Big Data components, architectures and applications. |
| ITProTV | Free membership (65+ hours of IT training content) and low cost memberships (4000+ hours of content, practice exams, and virtual labs). Free access to select CompTIA online courses for educational institutions during the Spring and Summer 2020 semesters – learn more. |
| Microsoft Cyber Security Architecture | Collection of best practices that is presented in a series of videos that provide clear actionable guidance for security-related decisions |
| Microsoft Technologies Training | Free security-related courses on Microsoft Technologies. |
| M.E. Kabay | Free industry courses and course materials for students, teachers and others are welcome to use for free courses and lectures. |
| Mossé Cyber Security Institute | Sixty-five free exercises including Penetration Testing, Red Teaming, Security Tools, Cyber Defence, Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC), and theory, concepts, and fundamentals of cyber security. |
| National CyberWatch Center Cloud-Based Labs | Heavily discounted online labs tied to industry certifications and higher education courses. |
| NICCS Education and Training Catalog | Database of free and for pay, online and in person courses. |
| NICERC at Home | Free activities and Capture the Flag challenges that teach foundational cybersecurity skills and introduction to cybersecurity careers. |
| NIST Cybersecurity Professional (NCSP) Awareness Training | Free course (use codeNCSPFREE) that introduces students to the basic concepts associated with Digital Transformation, Cybersecurity Risk Management, and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. |
| Open P-TECH | Free digital learning on the tech skills of tomorrow. |
| Palo Alto Networks | Free activities, lessons and virtual environments that increase a students knowledge of cybersecurity through narrated content, interactions, demonstrations, and knowledge checks. |
| Phishing Staff Awareness E-Learning Course | Low cost phishing awareness training. |
| picoCTF | Free computer security game targeted at middle and high school students. |
| Pluralsight | Free access to 7,000+ expert-led video courses and more during the month of April. |
| SANS | Free cybersecurity community resources and programs including white papers, webcasts, newsletters, tools/workstations, scholarship/community programs, templates, blogs, cyber ranges, and security posters. |
| SANS Cyber Aces Online | Free online course that teaches the fundamentals of cybersecurity including operating systems, networking, and systems administration. |
| Web Security Academy | Free online web security training. |
