About the Perkins Cybersecurity Educational Fund
The Perkins Cybersecurity Educational Fund (PCEF) is a nonprofit organization with a focus on providing free, high-quality cybersecurity education, training and tooling. Our mission is to make malware analysis, secure programming, and digital threat defense accessible to everyone, whether you're a beginner exploring ethical hacking or a professional strengthening your reverse engineering skills. By offering our free tools, courses, and resources, we strive to help individuals and organizations build real-world skills to defend against today’s evolving cyber landscape.
Our Mission: Free Cybersecurity Education for All
Our mission at PCEF is to provide access to cybersecurity knowledge by offering free education, training, and resources in malware development, reverse engineering, threat detection, and secure software development. We strive to empower individuals, students, and professionals to understand, analyze, and defend against cyber threats. Building a safer digital ecosystem for communities, organizations, and the world.
What We Offer: Free Cybersecurity Training, Tools & Resources
- Malware Development Training: Learn how malware is written, deployed, and detected. Learn security techniques to better understand how to defend modern systems from threats.
- Reverse Engineering Workshops: Get hands-on experience in reverse engineering software binaries using industry tools and methodologies to analyze files and uncover hidden behaviors.
- Advanced Malware Analysis: Analyze real malware samples to uncover tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by attackers. Ideal for aspiring threat hunters and malware analysts.
- Secure Programming & Software Hardening: Learn secure coding practices, vulnerability mitigation, and how to write code that resists common cyberattacks like buffer overflows and injection exploits.
- Free Cybersecurity Tools: Access free file scanners, YARA builders, and digital threat detection tools—all built to support analysts, researchers, and developers at no cost.