Forensics Alliance
Resources for our community
Guides and resources curated by the NCFA team for our members.
Framework
MITRE ATT&CK Framework
A widely used knowledge base of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures based on real-world observations. Useful for understanding attacker behaviour, detection engineering, SOC investigations, and threat-informed defence.
MITRE D3FEND Framework
A knowledge base focused on defensive cyber techniques. Useful for students who want to understand how defensive controls map against attacker behaviours.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework
A useful reference for understanding cyber security risk management, governance, identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover functions.
CTF Platform
Biterra
A cyber education platform used for challenge-based learning, CTFs, labs, teams, scoring, and student progression. Students may see Biterra used for university or community CTF competitions.
Hack The Box
A practical cyber training platform with labs, machines, challenges, and competitive events. Good for students who want to push their technical skills further.
OverTheWire (CTF)
A gamified CTF platform. The wargames offered by the OverTheWire community can help you to learn and practice security concepts in the form of fun-filled games.
PortSwigger Web Security Academy
The Web Security Academy is a free online training center for web application security.
TryHackMe
A beginner-friendly platform with guided rooms, learning paths, and practical cyber labs. Good for students who are new to CTFs or want structured learning.
Learning Resource
Blue Team Labs Online
A gamified defensive security platform with investigations and challenges covering incident response, digital forensics, security operations, reverse engineering, and threat hunting.
Cisco Networking Academy
Free and structured courses covering networking, cyber security, Python, and IT fundamentals. Useful for students who want to build strong foundations before moving into more advanced cyber topics.
Microsoft Learn Security
Official Microsoft learning and documentation for security, identity, compliance, Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Azure security, and related certifications. Useful for students interested in SOC, cloud security, and Microsoft security tools.