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 #5 - week 25 2023
Jun 26, 2023 6 min read

Brief #5: Apple's TriangledB Takedown, AnyConnect Under Fire

Mandos Brief, Week 25 2023: Apple tackles TriangledB, Cisco's AnyConnect vulnerability, Microsoft's fight against DDoS attacks, and NSA's warning on BlackLotus.

Newsletter mandos brief #4 - week 24 2023
Jun 19, 2023 6 min read

Brief #4: EU's AI Act, CLOP Ransomware, Fake GitHub Repos

Mandos Brief, Week 24 2023: AI regulation in Europe, CLOP ransomware attacks, the discovery of fake GitHub repositories, the updated GravityRAT and more.

Newsletter mandos brief #3 - week 23 2023
Jun 12, 2023 6 min read

Brief #3: Barracuda's Unpatchable Flaw, Chrome's 0-Day Patch

Mandos Brief, Week 23 2023: Barracuda's vulnerable appliances, Google's patch for a Chrome flaw, the launch of the Moonlighter satellite for hackers and more.

Newsletter mandos brief #3 - week 22 2023
Jun 5, 2023 10 min read

Brief #2: Gigabyte's Backdoor, AI Drone "Kills" Human Operator

Mandos Brief, Week 22 2023: Gigabyte's backdoor, Microsoft's 'Migraine' macOS vulnerability, Barracuda ESG 0-day, and OpenAI's cybersecurity grant program.

Newsletter mandos brief #1- week 21 2023
May 29, 2023 2 min read

Brief #1: NSO's Spyware, ChatGPT Prompt Injections

Mandos Brief, Week 21 2023: CloudSQL vulnerability, Bandit Stealer malware, ChatGPT's prompt injection attacks, NSO's spyware in Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict.

Newsletter mandos brief #0 - week 20 2023
May 22, 2023 2 min read

Brief #0: Apple's AI Ban, and Cybersecurity Breach

Mandos Brief, Week 21 2023: Apple's Artificial Intelligence restrictions to Amazon's AI revolution Beijing's tech ban and AI's growing influence in politics.

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