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101 Guides. Start With The Answer.

Short, plain guides to the main ideas in external threat protection. Each one starts with the answer and ends with what to do next.

Type

101 Guide · Intermediate · 6 Min Read.

Agentic Threat Intelligence 101.

How AI agents plan steps and call tools to do threat intelligence work, where a person stays in charge, and a hands-on series to build your own.

Cyber Threat Intelligence.Read.

101 Guide · Beginner · 4 Min Read.

Brand Protection 101.

How to build a brand protection program: choose which fakes to tackle first, list your assets, collect evidence, request removal and measure results.

Phishing Monitoring & Domain Abuse.Read.

Buyer's Guide · Intermediate · 6 Min Read.

Brand Protection Solutions: A Buyer’s Guide.

What brand protection should cover, how to compare solutions and when to build, buy or outsource.

Phishing Monitoring & Domain Abuse.Read.

101 Guide · Beginner · 4 Min Read.

Data Breach Response 101.

A data breach response plan for leaked company data: confirm the claim, contain it, find the cause, tell the right people and keep watching.

Dark Web Monitoring.Read.

101 Guide · Beginner · 6 Min Read.

Digital Risk Protection 101.

What digital risk protection is, which threats it covers, how a service finds and removes them, and how to choose one.

Brandefense platform.Read.

101 Guide · Intermediate · 7 Min Read.

External Attack Surface Management 101.

How to find, check and reduce everything an attacker could reach from the internet, and how to keep that list true as your company changes.

External Attack Surface Management.Read.

101 Guide · Beginner · 5 Min Read.

Google Dorking 101.

What Google dorking is and how defenders use search operators to find their own exposed files and pages before others do.

External Attack Surface Management.Read.

101 Guide · Beginner · 6 Min Read.

Hacker And Leak Forums 101.

What hacker and leak forums are, what is traded there, how they run, why police take them down and why new ones appear, and what defenders do about it.

Dark Web Monitoring.Read.

Buyer's Guide · Intermediate · 6 Min Read.

How To Choose A Digital Risk Protection Service.

Three service types, six things to test and the questions to ask before you pick a digital risk protection service.

Brandefense platform.Read.

Free Template · Intermediate · 12 Min Read.

Incident Response Plan Template (Free DOCX).

A free incident response plan you can fill in on this page or download as DOCX and Markdown. Built on NIST SP 800-61 Rev. 3, with external signals added.

Cyber Threat Intelligence.Read.

101 Guide · Beginner · 5 Min Read.

OSINT Framework 101.

What the OSINT Framework is, how to read it, how to choose OSINT tools and how defenders use them on their own organization.

External Attack Surface Management.Read.

101 Guide · Beginner · 6 Min Read.

Phishing 101.

What phishing is, why it keeps working and the practical steps that reduce the risk for your company and your customers.

Phishing Monitoring & Domain Abuse.Read.

Free Template · Intermediate · 17 Min Read.

Ransomware Response Playbook And Checklist (Free DOCX).

A free ransomware response playbook and checklist you can read here and download as DOCX: roles, first-hour steps, containment, recovery and the outside signals most templates skip.

Ransomware Intelligence.Read.

Free Template · Intermediate · 16 Min Read.

Tabletop Exercise Scenarios With Injects (Free DOCX).

Six ready-to-run tabletop scenarios for external threats, each with timed injects, expected decisions and discussion questions. Free DOCX, no form.

Phishing Monitoring & Domain Abuse.Read.

Checklist · Intermediate · 7 Min Read.

Takedown Service Evaluation Checklist.

What to check before buying a takedown service: scope, evidence, who files, reporting and what is not promised.

Phishing Monitoring & Domain Abuse.Read.

Free Template · Intermediate · 21 Min Read.

Third-Party Cyber Risk Questionnaire Template (Free DOCX).

A free third-party cyber risk questionnaire you can read here or download: vendor tiering, 41 questions with expected evidence, a scoring method and external signals to check.

Brandefense platform.Read.

101 Guide · Beginner · 7 Min Read.

Threat Intelligence 101.

A plain introduction to threat intelligence: what it is, how it works and how a small team can start using it.

Cyber Threat Intelligence.Read.

Checklist · Intermediate · 5 Min Read.

Threat Intelligence Evaluation Checklist.

A tick-box checklist to score any threat intelligence provider on sources, coverage, enrichment, integration and noise.

Cyber Threat Intelligence.Read.

101 Guide · Beginner · 5 Min Read.

Threat Intelligence Platforms 101.

What a threat intelligence platform is, what it does with data, how it differs from a SIEM or a feed, and how to choose one.

Cyber Threat Intelligence.Read.

Free Template · Intermediate · 12 Min Read.

Threat Intelligence Requirements (PIR) Template (Free DOCX).

A free PIR template for a small team: how to write a priority intelligence requirement, 10 starter PIRs, an interview sheet, metrics and a quarterly review checklist.

Cyber Threat Intelligence.Read.

101 Guide · Beginner · 4 Min Read.

Vulnerability Management 101.

The vulnerability management process in six steps: find your assets, scan, rank findings with CVSS, EPSS and KEV, fix, verify and report.

Cyber Threat Intelligence.Read.

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