The Mandos Brief

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 mandos brief #23 week 43 2023, safari ileakage, ccleaner personal data breach, APT28
Oct 29, 2023 5 min read

Brief #23: CCleaner Breach, Ransom Group's Physical Threats

Mandos Brief, Week 43: iLeakage Safari exploit, StripedFly's 1M infections, Russian APT28 in France, MOVEit attack on CCleaner, and Octo Tempest's violent threats.

Newsletter mandos brief #22 week 42 2023 Okta Breach, Brave's Stealthy VPN, Weak Admin Passwords
Oct 22, 2023 4 min read

Brief #22: Okta Breach, Brave's Stealthy VPN, Weak Passwords

Explore Mandos Brief #22 for week 42 of 2023: Dive into Okta's token breach, Brave Browser's VPN issue, weak 'admin' passwords, and SolarWinds vulnerabilities.

Newsletter Mandos Brief #21 covering key cybersecurity topics
Oct 15, 2023 3 min read

Brief #21: Record Breaking DDoS Attack, Curl Vulnerability

Mandos Brief, Week 41 2023: The largest DDoS attacks in history exploiting a Zero-Day vulnerability, AvosLocker ransomware defense tips from FBI and CISA.

Newsletter DNA breach, Atlassian zero-day vulnerability, QakBot malware, Clorox cyber attack, and Sony ransomware incidents.
Oct 8, 2023 4 min read

Brief #20: 23andMe DNA Breach, Atlassian 0-Day Under Attack

Mandos Brief, Week 40 2023: 23andMe DNA data breach, Atlassian's critical zero-day vulnerability, QakBot malware's comeback and Sony's dual ransomware attacks.

Newsletter mandos brief #19 week 39 2023
Oct 1, 2023 4 min read

Brief #19: GPUzip Data Leak, Russia's $20M 0-day Bug Bounty

Mandos Brief, Week 39 2023: BlackTech's stealthy Cisco router attacks, Google's rapid patch for a critical libvpx zero-day, the alarming GPUzip data leak.

Newsletter Mandos Brief #18 covering Microsoft Data Leak, Cisco-Splunk Deal, Apple Zero-Days, LastPass Security, and OpenAI Red Teaming
Sep 24, 2023 4 min read

Brief #18: Microsoft's 38TB Leak, Cisco's Splunk Acquisition

Mandos Brief, Week 38 2023: Microsoft's 38TB data leak, Cisco's acquisition of Splunk, LastPass's new security measures, and OpenAI's Red Teaming Network.

Newsletter mandos brief #17 - week 37 2023
Sep 17, 2023 5 min read

Brief #17: MGM Attack, Kubernetes Flaws, 3AM Ransomware

Mandos Brief, Week 37 2023: analysis of the MGM cyber attack, critical Kubernetes vulnerabilities, the new 3AM ransomware, Lazarus Group's CoinEx hack.

Newsletter mandos brief #16 - week 36 2023
Sep 10, 2023 5 min read

Brief #16: MacOS Malware, GenAI Security Flaws, and More

Mandos Brief, Week 36 2023: Unveiling the Atomic MacOS Stealer malware, W3LL's phishing kit, iOS 16.6.1 update insights, and the security flaws in GenAI.

Newsletter mandos brief #15 - week 35 2023
Sep 4, 2023 6 min read

Brief #15: QakBot Takedown, TPM Bypass, DBJammer Attacks

Mandos Brief, Week 35 2023: dismantling of the QakBot botnet, a critical TPM vulnerability, the DBJammer ransomware campaign, severe SSH flaw in VMware.

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