Updated page 8/3/2018
Security news must be kept up, here is a list of top websites, blogs, ezines, and more. Interaction and review is critical to learn more about security.
Modified some wording to many listings.
Continually working on finding a way to classify top30 sites. Modified the rankings quite a bit today (August3), including top10
Rapid7 blog link updated and redesigning the 3rd value to value of news on vulnerabilities and exploits, as that is what we are supposed to be looking for. In the coming days I will update each ranking
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- Cybersecurity value (subjective (my prerogative) (first value)
- Industrylinks (‘Cybersecurity’ keyword) ( second value)
- Industry links (Google ‘news on vulnerability and exploits’ keyword ) ( third value)
- Recent updates frequency (4th value)
- video/audio(podcasts) relevance my subjective value – I am giving Irongeek.com a 10 and going down from there, but these are initial values, Changed these values in June 1, 2018
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Top informational sites 1-10
1. Threatpost has many good posts. %9-8-9-10-5=41% good value and good Google rankings, some video
2. Dark reading is an InformationWeek Security blog with good Security topics updated frequently %9-8-8-10-3=38% good value and high Google rankings with some video
3. Internet Storm Center SANS: an Industry leader in Security certification and training – the place to go to work on technical skillsets within Cybersecurity and this is their daily log of current events. Although not much “news” according to Google search, analysis is very good and frequent updates with decent podcasts good frequency %10-0-10-10-9=39%
4. SCMagazine – Security magazine consistently has good Security articles and has been honored with national honors from ASBPE http://www.scmagazine.com/sc-wins-three-top-national-honors-from-asbpe/article/511656/ %9-8-7-9-3=36% Good content and high value, some video
5. Reddit section “netsec” https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/ has very good posts frequently – Lots of new good posts. %10-5-9-10-0=34% High value, decent ranking, high updates, no video
6. TechNewsWorld has a decent number of good articles http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/section/cyber-security/ %8-8-6-9-2=33% Good value and high Google rankings, few videos
7. With a special interest in KrebsonSecurity David Krebs has authored “SpamNation” is looked at for computer breach news – He was a journalist, now Darknet reviewer and more. %10-0-8-10-5=33% High value, but does not focus on Cyber security so does not have high Google ranking, some video
8. Adding IronGeek.com as it is the video repository for constant reviews of latest Security conferences. If you want to stay up to speed on detailed and up-to-date Cybersecurity information then here you have to check. %8-0-4-9-10=31% Good value in Cybersecurity and update frequency and volume of Cybersecurity relevant videos. but no keyword search visibility compared to others
9. Stay safe online, A national Cybersecurity Alliance effort to help people improve Cyber Security %8-10-0-9-0=27% decent value, some Google value and high freq, no video
10. Graham Cluley has a blog is relevant and timely(as he promotes it is award winning) http://grahamcluley.com/ %6-0-6-10-5=27% decent value, higher Google rankings and good freq, some video
11. NakedSecurity by Sophos (AV company)keeps up on malware news (antivirus etc) %7-0-7-8-2=24% decent value, and high Google rankings, good freq, few video
12. Bruce Schneier, a security expert writing about cyber security since 1998 – excellent theorist and book writer. %9-0-6-9-4=27% high value, low Google, but good freq , few video others took at his talks
13. Homeland Security News Wire http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/topics/cybersecurity Has many relevant cybersecurity news stories. %5-7-6-8-0=26% Some value, but high Google ranking, high updates, no video
14. The Register a classic IT news site has some interesting angles. %8-0-0-10-7=25% medium value and low Google, high freq some video
15. http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/ Decent news topics general in nature. And don’t forget Infosec magazine’s Blogs: http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/blogs/ %7-5-0-10-2=24% decent value, and decent Google rankings – high freq , few videos
16. Cisco’s Talos Blog Excellent threat research and more %9-0-4-6=24% high value, but low freq and no keywords in Google
17. ZDNet Zero Day blog by ZDNet – new info about hacker some value – no Google ranking high freq. %9-0-0-10-4=23% some video included
18. SucuriBlog http://blog.sucuri.net/ WordPress developer Blog about security, Has other topics , we use this plugin has excellent WordPress insights %8-0-6-8-1=23% starting to get lower on list for value, and has little Google ranking but good freq, few videos
19. Real Clear Future http://www.realclearfuture.com/ many top tech articles – a good place to keep up on news. medium value and low Google, high freq %8-0-0-10-2=20% very few videos
20. SANS Digital Forensics Blog is a good forensics blog with some new posts %6-0-0-8-6=20% lower value, but higher freq with no Google values
21. Rand Corp Blog is where the Cybersecurity researcher Martin Libicki writes – Rand Corp is a prestigious science research institution among other items. %5-5-0-8-1=19% medium low value, some Google and high freq few videos
22 Malwarebytes Unpacked the https://blog.malwarebytes.org/ Blog of malwarebytes (excellent AV app).%5-0-3-9-2=19% lower value, but higher freq and no Google values, no video
23. Rapid7 has a Security Blog well researched posts:
https://blog.rapid7.com/ %7-0-3-8-1=19% ,medium value and some freq No keyword rankings. no video
24. TrendMicro Security Intelligence Blog is kept up and has good topics %6-0-4-6-2=12% low-med value, some vuln info, lowmed freq and no google value, no video
25. Veracode Blog focused on application development security topics %6-0-4-6-2=18% lower value and less frequent with no google values, some videos
26. Securelist Blog (A Kaspersky Lab endeavor) and their Twitter feed seems to be in Germany: Kaspersky_DACH %7-0-0-9-2=18% Their posts must not have Security so Google can pick up, but has more value with decent freq, a couple of videos
27. White Hat Security Blog https://www.whitehatsec.com/blog/ White Hat security is a company that consults on application security – I have seen some of their researchers. %3-0-0-5-6=14% no video
28. ISACA Now Blog http://www.isaca.org/Knowledge-Center/Blog/default.aspx which is the Information Systems Auditing and Control Association Blog %5-0-0-7-0=12% no video
29. Securosis a blog with good content (sometimes does not post frequently) %7-0-0-7-0=14% the decent content is not on Google due to low freq, no video
30. Taosecurity Richard Bejtlich’s security blog – Excellent when updated – Check a recent video of Richard Bejtlich (Chief Security Strategist FireEye) adding Fireeye blogs to this line. %6-0-0-6-1=13% lower value and less frequent with no google values. no video
Wow – after that video add of Irongeek and some rearranging – no more Googleonline and Bitdefender in top30
31. Google Online Security Blog is good to review periodically http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/ %4-0-0-5=9% low value and low freq and no Google value
32. Bitdefender LABS has some good posts (including new Ransomware tool https://labs.bitdefender.com/) %4-0-0-3=7% low value and low freq and no Google value
Adding new blogs to review periodically:
http://www.freeforensics.org/ A blog started in March 2016 – about forensics and other topics (ransomware details)
moving IBM Security out of top 30 X-Force website and the blog page X-Force bloggers is good, but updated infrequently & pro IBM of course.
Also moved BugSEC as it is not updted often but is blog decent review of Cyber threats – from a security company in Israel
MUST SEE LINKS:
US-CERT: United States Computer Emergency Response team https://www.us-cert.gov
HIPAA: http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/srsummary.html PCI: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/