Beacon is a cybersecurity training platform offered by Palo Alto Networks, providing a wide range of courses, certifications, and study guides to enhance your cybersecurity skills. Powered by Palo Alto Networks, Beacon offers a variety of training options including fundamentals, digital learning, instructor-led trainings, micro-credentials, certifications, and more.
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A series of vulnerable virtual machine images with documentation to teach Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL security.
Online IT Security and Privacy Awareness training courses to help companies meet compliance requirements and reduce cybersecurity risks.
A cheat sheet for pentesters and researchers about deserialization vulnerabilities in various Java (JVM) serialization libraries.
A docker container with multiple vulnerable applications for cybersecurity training.
A collection of security vulnerabilities in regular expressions used in WAFs with a focus on bypass examples and high severity issues.
Guidelines for contributing to a cybersecurity tools and resources list
A game packed with real-life examples of how not to store secrets in software, with 46 challenges to solve.
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