On my desk is a folder containing all sort of cheat sheets relating to security, operating systems, and various web applications. Many a times, these quick references have helped me remember particular options and information that are all too easily forgotten. These guides are also very useful in any training program, helping remind students of the essential information. So when Jim Clausing, from SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC), posted, “New and updated cheat sheets,” an idea hit me: now would be the perfect time to pull together and share this material. Jeremy Stretch at PacketLife is in the process of updating, to quote Jim, “some of his excellent networking cheat sheets (I mentioned his 802.1x one here).” Jeremy has posted such first-rate cheat sheets as:
For help with forensics, Jim points out, “SANS instructor, Rob Lee points us to a couple of new cheat sheets for doing forensics on USB keys under XP or Vista/Win7.” There is also the Memory Analysis Cheat Sheet for Microsoft Windows XP SP2 by Pär Österberg and Andreas Schuster. If you have a SANS Portal Account, you can access the SANS Forensic Analysis Cheat Sheet.
The below table provides links to other security cheat sheets I have found very beneficial. Some are better described as condensed references, verses short 1-2 page cheat sheets. That is noted below.
Since security does not exist in a vacuum, Raj helps us out with his post, “145 Useful cheat sheets for some of the most widely used tools on the web.” To quote Raj, the post provides “145 quick cheat sheets for some of the most widely used tools on the web.” Dave Child has also posted several valuable cheat sheets for commonly used Internet and development tools (Python, Subversion, Regular Expressions, mod_rewrite, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, Ruby on Rails).
To assist on the operating side, Scott Klar posted “Linux-Unix cheat sheets – The ultimate collection.” The post provides a links to approximately 70 cheat sheets for Linux users. Scott has also posted, “Windows cheat sheets compilation“, “Networking cheat sheets“, and links in various other areas (C, CPP, C#; Gimp; Designer color; Vi & vim; Emacs; Photoshop; Apache; Perl; Python; Ruby and Ruby on Rails; Regular Expressions; MySQL; XML-XSLT-RSS; PHP; CSS; Javascript/Ajax; HTML and Xhtml).
Finally, there is always the Cheat-Sheets and TechTarget sites. These two sites offer very large number of links to various cheat sheets on all sorts of topics. If you know of any other good cheat sheets relating to security, please let me know.
I have some of these printed, they’re invaluable when you don’t feel like sifting through man pages.. Also got a few on my wall.
Thanks John! that’s a lovely share!..
Hi,
Thanks you! very nice and appreciated.
You do have one bad link on THIS Cheat Sheet page: “Subnetting”
Points to empty link:
http://packetlife.net/static/cheatsheets/subnetting.pdf
Thanks again.
Hey. Not too happy about people using images off my site (even if it links). Please host yourself and put the link crediting it instead.