onlurking/awesome-infosec

Awesome Infosec is a curated collection of learning resources for information security, organized into categories by type. It is a static reference list rather than a tool or codebase, intended for people who want to learn cybersecurity concepts, practice skills, or find structured curricula. The README itself is the product. The collection covers several distinct resource types. The massive open online courses section includes university-level courses available through platforms like Coursera, linking to offerings from Stanford (computer security, cryptography), MIT, UC San Diego, and others. Each entry includes a brief description of what the course teaches. Other sections cover academic courses, hands-on laboratories, capture the flag competitions, open security books available freely online, challenge sites for practicing specific skills, documentation collections, SecurityTube playlists, and links to related awesome-style lists in adjacent areas. Capture the flag competitions are timed hacking challenges where teams or individuals solve security puzzles to score points, the list links to platforms that host them year-round or archive past competitions. The list notes at the top that the resources are intended for cybersecurity professionals and educational use in a controlled environment, not for unauthorized access to systems. This is a standard disclaimer for security education resources that inevitably include material on offensive techniques. The format follows the conventions of the broader awesome-* ecosystem on GitHub: plain Markdown, sections linked from a table of contents, and community contributions welcomed via pull requests. The project carries no specific license beyond the implied open access of a public GitHub repository. The full README is longer than what was shown.