Attributions
This course is built on the shoulders of openly-licensed work, and this page is where we credit it: every source we've adapted, who made it, and under what licence. (You don't need this page to learn. It's here so the people whose work helped build the course are properly acknowledged, and so you can verify our sources.)
Formally: we record the TASL attribution (Title, Author, Source, Licence) for material we adapt. Resources we merely link to are credited in place and don't require attribution here.
Our own licences
- Course content (everything under
docs/unless marked otherwise): © Cyber Career Launchpad contributors. All rights reserved. The course is free to read and study online, but it is not licensed for copying, adaptation, or redistribution. - Module 9: Web & application security is the one exception: it adapts OWASP material and is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (ShareAlike). You may reuse that module under those terms.
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Adapted material
| What we adapted | Author / owner | Source | Licence | Changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essential Eight strategies & Maturity Model summaries, ISM structure, Australian threat guidance (M5, M7, M10, Cyber Today briefings) and ACSC news headlines on the News page | Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), © Commonwealth of Australia | cyber.gov.au | CC BY 4.0 | Summarised and rewritten in plain English for beginners; not endorsed by ASD |
| OWASP Top 10:2025 category names and concepts (M9) | OWASP Foundation | owasp.org/Top10 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Plain-English explanations rewritten for career changers |
| Incident response lifecycle (M8), Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 functions (M10) | National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Department of Commerce | nist.gov | US public domain (attribution as courtesy) | Summarised for beginners |
Gratefully linked (not adapted)
Professor Messer's free certification courses · PortSwigger Web Security Academy · TryHackMe · OverTheWire · picoCTF · Microsoft Learn · MITRE ATT&CK · OAIC · eSafety Commissioner · Scamwatch · IDCARE, plus every community organisation named in M13: Career launch.
None of the organisations above endorse or are affiliated with this course.
Whenever the course adapts new openly-licensed material, we add a row here in the same change. This page publicly discharges the attribution obligation for the material we adapt.