Buyer's Guide · Intermediate · 6 Min Read
Attack Surface Management Tools: A Buyer’s Guide
How to compare attack surface management tools: discovery, context, prioritization and fit with your team.
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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.
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.
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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.
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101 Guide · Intermediate · 6 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Checklist · Intermediate · 5 Min Read
RFP Questions For Threat Intelligence, DRP, EASM And Third-Party Risk
One question list that covers four topics: threat intelligence, digital risk protection, external attack surface and third-party risk.
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Playbook · Intermediate · 5 Min Read
ROI Framing And Board Report Template For Threat Exposure
A way to estimate the return on outside-threat monitoring with your own inputs, plus a board report template without invented benchmarks.
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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.
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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.
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Free Template · Intermediate · 20 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.
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101 Guide · Beginner · 6 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Buyer's Guide · Intermediate · 5 Min Read
Threat Intelligence: Feeds, Platform Or Managed Service
Compare the three ways to buy threat intelligence and pick the one that fits your team, your tools and your questions.
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- 101 Guides Short, plain guides to the main ideas in external threat protection. 21 Guides
- Glossary Security terms in plain words, A to Z, each with its own page. 135 Terms
- APT Groups State-backed hacking groups, who they go after and how they get in. 49 Profiles
- Ransomware Groups How each group gets in, how it extorts and what stops it. 24 Profiles
- Malware And Tools Malware families and abused tools, what they do and how to spot them. 46 Profiles
- Techniques Attack techniques in plain words, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. 36 Profiles
- Countries The sectors, groups and national bodies that matter in each country. 32 Profiles
- Vulnerabilities Flaws attackers use in real attacks and what to do about them. 44 Profiles
- Significant Cyber Incidents Significant incidents since October 2024, with a dated timeline, sources and lessons. 103 Profiles
- Agentic Security Best practices for securing AI agents and for using agents in security work, from the main public frameworks. 12 Articles
- How To Defend A playbook for every alert: the first 24 hours, the checklist and the fix. 18 Playbooks
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