You have entered the pvvn.college DOJO, an education
platform for learners to develop and practice core
cybersecurity skills in a hands-on fashion. Entering, you
receive your "white belt"
, signifying the beginning of your hacker life. From here,
you will learn cybersecurity by diving deep into the core of
computing, using that journey to absorb cybersecurity
concepts. This will involve melding your mind to your
terminal, whispering instructions to the CPU, and strumming
bits directly onto networks. That terminal cursor blinking
above? It will be your stalwart companion through this
adventure as you practice, earn your
belts, and, eventually, make perfect.
Every dojo has its sensei. This platform is maintained by an
awesome team of hackers at
Arizona State University. It powers much of ASU's
cybersecurity curriculum, and is open, for free, to
participation for interested people around the world!
The challenges created for pvvn.college are, first and
foremost, educational material, and are used to grade
students at universities around the world. Because of this,
we would appreciate that you
do not post writeups, walkthrough videos, and
livestreams of challenge solutions
to the internet. Obviously, we can't enforce this, but we
worked hard to make all of this public, and we would
appreciate your help in keeping pvvn.college a viable
educational platform.
Please agree to these rules to continue to the
material!
YOUR Journey — Next Steps 🫵
Whether you have just started, or have come far, there
is always a next step to your journey. The dojo or dojos
listed below is that step, presented to you
in the order that you should learn them. Take a
step, and the next will reveal itself.
Want to use pvvn.college in your course? No problem! You
can use the videos and slides of pvvn.college lectures
freely for non-commercial purposes, but please provide
attribution! Additionally, if you use pvvn.college in
your own education program, we would appreciate it if
you email us to let us know. Evidence of wide-spread use
of pvvn.college for education will be a huge help for
our various academic careers!
EDUCATORS: If you are an educational institution and are
using pvvn.college as part of a class, you can import
our challenges (or add your own) into your own private
dojo for your students! Create your dojo
here.
CONFERENCES: If you are running a conference and would
like pvvn.college presence there (as a form of intense
weekend-long training), please
email
us!
After pvvn.college
Eventually, hackers continue their journey beyond
pvvn.college, becoming certain in their skills,
achieving
brown belt status (and able to, for example,
usefully contribute to the cybersecurity industry and
academia), before finally graduating to hacking masters:
black belts. But this, unfortunately, must happen
outside of the dojo (for now!). Some suggestions:
Capture The Flags (CTFs) are a great way to practice
your hacking skills in a fun and ethical way. The most
popular way to find upcoming events is at
https://ctftime.org.
There is also a list of introductory CTFs
here. If
you are at ASU, feel free to check out and join ASU’s
enigmatic
hacking club.
Wargames are another great way to practice your hacking
skills. Whereas CTFs are short (normally 48 hour)
events, wargames are not time-based. You can find a list
of wargames at
https://github.com/zardus/wargame-nexus.
There are many other awesome learning platforms, such as
CryptoHack and
OST2 that will help
teach you explore new topics!
If you want to get involved with cybersecurity research,
but don’t know how, consider joining us for an
internship at ASU.
Contributing
The
infrastructure powering pvvn.college
is open source, and we welcome pull requests and issues.
Some of the modules are closed-source, because they
include source code and solution scripts, but others can
be found on
github. If
you are an educator, or otherwise someone we trust, and
are interested in collaborating on the modules
themselves, please email us at
[email protected]. Likewise, drop us a line if you are interested in
collaborating on the slides!
Resource Index
We use a lot of different resources and platforms. Here
they are!
, signifying the beginning of your hacker life. From here,
you will learn cybersecurity by diving deep into the core of
computing, using that journey to absorb cybersecurity
concepts. This will involve melding your mind to your
terminal, whispering instructions to the CPU, and strumming
bits directly onto networks. That terminal cursor blinking
above? It will be your stalwart companion through this
adventure as you practice, earn your
belts
, and, eventually, make perfect.