Building a tool to help overworked cybersecurity teams with no budget
There is too much of everything in cybersecurity. Noise, FUD, unfulfilled sales promises, incidents, things to address, information to process, technologies to look at, people to educate. I am working as a CISO and it's mostly my job to raise awareness, understand all the risks, track all current issues and prioritize them, and be able to communicate all that with proper references and examples to our management team. I've been building and dogfooding a tool that ingests much of the noise and provides focused notifications per cybersecurity topic and regular awareness texts. The idea was to…
Building a tool to help overworked cybersecurity teams with no budget launched on August 14, 2023 with 5 votes, #1,919 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
What it does
Keep your cybersecurity focus with concise information and actionable tasks
Cut the noise, keep the discipline. Cybersecurity tools and guidance for teams of any size. External attack surface, targeted threat awareness, security controls and risk assessment, delivery to Slack, Teams, Google Chat, Discord or email, a public trust page, and hands-on training. It keeps growing as we add more. A ranked action list from your risk assessment and current threat trends. Implement the highest-impact controls, with hands-on training to build the skills. Homebrew 7.0.0 introduces a built-in vulnerability scanner for macOS and Linux and documents eight recently addressed security flaws, including a high-severity… A cold sales email using an innocuous "how are you?" opener,…from beyondmachines.net
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There is too much of everything in cybersecurity. Noise, FUD, unfulfilled sales promises, incidents, things to address, information to process, technologies to look at, people to educate. I am working as a CISO and it's mostly my job to raise awareness, understand all the risks, track all current issues and…
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