Security Resources
Last updated: November 2026
Blogs
- this week in security by Zach Whittaker - Essential weekly roundup of the most important security news and breaches
- tl;dr sec by Clint Gibler - My go-to newsletter for security tooling, AppSec, and cloud security trends
- Substack: Detection Engineering Weekly - Critical reading for anyone building detection rules and improving SOC capabilities
Websites
- DataBreaches
- MITRE EMB3D knowledge base of cyber threats to embedded devices
- MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques - The foundational framework I use daily for threat modeling and mapping detection coverage
- MITRE ATLAS machine learning attack matrix
- Hacking The Cloud is an encyclopedia of attacks/tactics/techniques for cloud exploitation - Invaluable resource for understanding attacker TTPs in AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Known Breaches
Conference Talk Compilations
Guides
- Collection of LLM resources related to security. From Dylan Williams
- Theory and Practice of Cryptography Mini-Course: taught in 2007 at Google
- APT_REPORT collected by @blackorbird
- CISA: Cyber Guidance for Small Business. Published 2024-04-01
- Incident Response Linux
Companies with Good Security Blogs
Tools
- URL Validation Cheat Sheet
- Kubenomicon is a resource to understand Kubernetes from an offensive perspective
- Microsoft - Threat Matrix for Kubernetes
- Detection Armory by Anvilogic Forge
- Cloud Threat Landscapes
- DIANA - Automates the creation of detections from threat intelligence using LLMs
- Open Source Investigation Toolkit
- Ransomware Tool Matrix
Conferences
Videos
- The impact of digital forensics in IR investigations | Carly Battaile and Partha Alwar | MSSN CTRL (2024)
- Using AI to reduce toil in detection writing | Dylan Williams | MSSN CTRL (2024)
- A decade of defense: securing the largest US crypto exchange | Philip Martin | MSSN CTRL 2024
- Kubernetes Security Fundamentals: API Security - Part 1. Published 2024-02-13
- AppSecCali 2019 - Startup security: Starting a security program at a startup - Evan Johnson
- BSidesSF 2024 - Startup Security, 2nd Edition, published 2024-07-08 Evan Johnson
- DEF CON 32 - On Your Ocean's 11 Team, I'm the AI Guy (technically Girl) - Harriet Farlow
Papers
- Hierarchical Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Cyber Network Defense. Submitted 2024-10-22 Alina Oprea
- Adversarial Machine Learning: A Taxonomy and Terminology of Attacks and Mitigations. Published 2024-01-15 Alina Oprea
- A Marauder's Map of Security and Privacy in Machine Learning. Published 2018-11-03
- Most Cited Security Papers from 2015-2019.
- CISA: Deploying AI Systems Securely. Published 2024-04-01 CISA
Articles
- Towards Zero Trust and Attribute-Based Encryption. Published 2024-11-16
- How we use Datadog for detection as code. Published 2024-10-11
- Paved Roads? Secure-by-Design?? More Buzzwords???
- North Korean-linked hackers were caught experimenting with new macOS malware. Published 2024-11-12
- Palo Alto Networks Confirms New Firewall Zero-Day Exploitation. Published 2024-11-15
- Pacific Rim: Inside the Counter-Offensive—The TTPs Used to Neutralize China-Based Threats. Published 2024-10-31 by Sophos
- State of Cloud Security. Published 2024-10-01 from Datadog Security Labs
- Things You Need to Know About Your Tech Salary, by Jeevan Singh
- Lessons in Security Tooling: Strategies for Success, by Jeevan Singh
- Microsoft's Dangerous Addiction To Security Revenue, published 2024-01-26 by Alex Stamos
- Startup Security by Andrew Kumansley
- Plotting a Winning Threat Detection Strategy: A Visual Model. Published 2024-01-22 by Van Vleet
- Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3, published 2024-05-30 by Daniel Grzelak
- Rolling your own Detections as Code with Elastic Security. Published 2024-05-14
- Startup Security: Starting a Security Program at a Startup. Published 2022-01-14 by Clint Gibler
- Predicting AI's Impact on Security. Published 2024-06-17
- Phantom Secrets: Undetected Secrets Expose Major Corporations. Published 2024-06-23
- Hijacking GitHub runners to compromise the organization. Published 2024-05-22
- NIST Drops Password Complexity, Mandatory Reset Rules. Published 2024-09-25
- How Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack. Published 2024-10-02
- A Big Dashboard of Problems.pdf. Published 2023-02-28 by #TravisMcPeak