Student Guides
New to the tools we use in CIS 350? Start here. Each guide walks you - step by step, assuming no prior experience - through one platform: how to get in, how to use it, and exactly how it fits the week’s activity. Keep the matching guide open in a second tab while you work.
Google Colab
The browser-based Python notebook used for every lab, the Week 1 tutorial, and every CTF starter. Nothing to install.
Hacker101
Free, beginner-friendly security lessons from HackerOne, used in the Week 1, 2, 3, and 6 guided-lesson activities.
CTFd (Capture the Flag)
The scoreboard for the five CTF challenges (Weeks 8, 10, 11, 13, 15). Solve in Colab, submit the flag here.
CISA Tabletop Exercises
Discussion-based incident-response drills run in small groups (Weeks 4, 5, 7, 12, 14, 16). No computers - just decisions.
Plain-Language Reading
How to get the most out of the two short, jargon-free course paperbacks on AI and on cybersecurity.
Logging in
The course site is private. If it asks you to sign in, here is the 30-second, no-password email-code process - and what to do if the code does not arrive.