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RESOURCES
Free Graylog - https://graylog.org/products/download-open-source/
Kaggle (for publicly available data sets) - https://www.kaggle.com/datasets
TryHackMe Security Analyst Level 1 (S1) certification - https://simplycyber.io/sal1
Malware Traffic Analysis - https://www.malware-traffic-analysis.net/
Wireshark - https://www.wireshark.org/
RITA (Real Intelligence Threat Analytics) from Black Hills - https://github.com/activecm/rita
MITRE ATT&CK - https://attack.mitre.org/
Simply Cyber Daily Cyber Threat Brief - https://simplycyber.io/streams
AlienVault OTX (Open Threat Exchange) - https://otx.alienvault.com/
Python - https://www.python.org/
Pandas library - https://pandas.pydata.org/
Gemini (for generative AI assistance) - https://gemini.google.com/
Simply Cyber Academy's free "Cybersecurity Career Launchpad" course - https://academy.simplycyber.io/p/cybersecurity-career-launchpad-a-complete-resource-guide-for-career-changers
Sysmon - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon
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