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Weekly cybersecurity market intelligence

Market pulse, proprietary signals from 9,000+ tracked products and 3,200+ vendors, and the CISO buyer take. Ten minutes, every Monday.

Three sections. Ten minutes. Every Monday.

The cybersecurity market, made readable in the time it takes to drink your coffee.

Market Pulse

The week's biggest cybersecurity funding rounds, M&A deals, and category shifts. With a "what it signals" column, so you know what each move means for your competitive landscape.

Mandos Signal

One proprietary data story per week, pulled from CybersecTools (9,000+ products tracked) and CybersecRadars (3,200+ vendors). Momentum gainers, hiring trends, category leadership shifts. Insights you cannot get anywhere else.

CISO Take

Thirteen years on the cybersecurity buyer side, translated into concrete advice on what would actually move a CISO this week and what would not.

What you get in every issue

Three sections. Built to make the cybersecurity market readable in ten minutes.

Section 1 / 3 min

Market Pulse

The week's biggest funding rounds, M&A deals, and category shifts. Each row tagged with what it signals for the competitive landscape.

Section 2 / 5 min

Mandos Signal

One proprietary data story per week from 9,000+ tracked products and 3,200+ vendors. Momentum, hiring, mindshare, category leadership. Insights you cannot get anywhere else.

Section 3 / 2 min

CISO Take

Thirteen years on the cybersecurity buyer side, translated into concrete advice on what would actually move a CISO this week and what would not.

Recent briefs

Browse the archive of past issues.

Newsletter Brief #50: Postman API Credential Leaks, DHS AI Threat Guidelines, Effective Risk Communication, Cybersecurity Analyst Insights
May 5, 2024 8 min read

Brief #50: Postman API Credential Leaks, DHS AI Threat Guidelines, Effective Risk Communication, Cybersecurity Analyst Insights

Week 18: Postman API network leaks thousands of live credentials, DHS releases guidelines to protect critical infrastructure from AI threats, cybersecurity leaders discuss overuse of "critical" and effective risk communication, and insights on the daily work of cybersecurity analysts.

Nikoloz Kokhreidze Nikoloz Kokhreidze
Newsletter mandos brief newsletter week 17 of 2024
Apr 28, 2024 8 min read

Brief #49: Palo Alto XDR Exploit, GPT-4 Vulnerability Exploitation, CISO Insights, and Top Cybersecurity Courses

Week 17: Palo Alto XDR exploited to deploy malware, researchers claim GPT-4 can autonomously exploit vulnerabilities, LinkedIn CISO shares leadership insights, top cybersecurity training courses and more.

Nikoloz Kokhreidze Nikoloz Kokhreidze
Newsletter mandos brief week 16 nikoloz kokhreidze
Apr 21, 2024 8 min read

Brief #48: PuTTY Zero-Day, LLMs as Pentesters, Securing Layoffs, High-Paying Cybersecurity Skills

Week 16: PuTTY vulnerability allows ECDSA key recovery, LLMs perform as well as humans in pentesting, securing mass layoffs with empathy, and top-paying cybersecurity skills.

Nikoloz Kokhreidze Nikoloz Kokhreidze
Newsletter mandos brief newsletter week 15 2024 nikoloz kokhreidze
Apr 14, 2024 7 min read

Brief #47: Palo Alto Zero-Day Exploited, AI-Powered Malware, CISO Burnout, and the Value of Mentorship

Week 15: State-sponsored attackers exploit Palo Alto Networks zero-day, cybercrime group uses AI-generated scripts to load malware, CISOs face burnout, and the importance of mentorship.

Nikoloz Kokhreidze Nikoloz Kokhreidze
Newsletter mandos brief week 14 of 2024 nikoloz kokhreidze
Apr 7, 2024 7 min read

Brief #46: HTTP/2 Flaws, Latrodectus Malware, Microsoft Exchange Breach

Week 14: Severe HTTP/2 vulnerabilities enable DoS attacks, new Latrodectus malware emerges, and the US Cyber Safety Board reports on a preventable Microsoft Exchange breach.

Nikoloz Kokhreidze Nikoloz Kokhreidze
Newsletter mandos brief nikoloz kokhreidze week 13 2024
Mar 31, 2024 6 min read

Brief #45: NHS Ransomware, XZ Utils Backdoor, PyPI Malware Flood

Week 13: UK's NHS suffers ransomware attack, critical backdoor found in XZ Utils, and PyPI suspends new projects after malicious package uploads.

Nikoloz Kokhreidze Nikoloz Kokhreidze
Newsletter Brief #44: $1.13M Pwn2Own, M-Chip Flaw, 19M Plaintext Passwords mandos.io nikoloz kokhreidze
Mar 24, 2024 6 min read

Brief #44: $1.13M Pwn2Own, M-Chip Flaw, 19M Plaintext Passwords

Week 12: Hackers win $1.13M at Pwn2Own, critical Apple M-chip vulnerability exposed, and 19 million plaintext passwords leaked from Firebase.

Nikoloz Kokhreidze Nikoloz Kokhreidze
Newsletter Brief #43: ChatGPT Flaws, Roku Hacked, Tor's WebTunnel
Mar 17, 2024 7 min read

Brief #43: ChatGPT Flaws, Roku Hacked, Tor's WebTunnel

Week 11: ChatGPT plugin vulnerabilities exposed, Roku suffers a credential stuffing breach impacting 15,000, and Tor Project unveils WebTunnel.

Nikoloz Kokhreidze Nikoloz Kokhreidze
Newsletter Week 10 of 2024 in cybersecurity nikoloz kokhreidze mandos
Mar 10, 2024 7 min read

Brief #42: Google AI Theft, Microsoft Breach, Apple Zero-Days, RA World Ransomware & More

Google AI trade secrets theft, Microsoft source code breach, Apple zero-days, QNAP vulnerabilities, RA World ransomware targeting healthcare and finance.

Nikoloz Kokhreidze Nikoloz Kokhreidze

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