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 week 2 2025
Jan 12, 2025 8 min read

Brief #86: BeyondTrust API Exploit, Microsoft vs AI Hackers, OWASP Non-Human Identity Risks

Critical government systems compromised via API theft. New macOS malware emerges. DHS shares concrete guidance for AI implementation

Newsletter mandos brief cybersecurity newsletter covering week 1 of 2025
Jan 5, 2025 9 min read

Brief #85: Windows LDAP Exploit, Tenable Nessus Outage, Security Leadership Pay

Critical vulnerabilities in Windows Domain Controllers enable remote attacks, while VW subsidiary exposes 460,000 EV locations. RAND reveals AI security gaps

Newsletter mandos brief cybersecurity newsletter week 52 of 2024
Dec 29, 2024 9 min read

Brief #84: Chrome Extension Attacks, Amazon Redshift Vulns, PAN-OS DoS

Alarming burnout statistics show 25% of security leaders want to quit. 1.29TB of sensitive data exposed by Builder.ai. LLMs enable new malware evasion techniques.

Newsletter Brief #83: TP-Link Ban, LastPass Breach Impact, SOC Analyst Crisis
Dec 22, 2024 9 min read

Brief #83: TP-Link Ban, LastPass Breach Impact, SOC Analyst Crisis

New vishing attacks target Teams users. APIs get compromised in under 2 minutes. Arctic Wolf makes major endpoint security move.

Newsletter mandos brief cybersecurity newsletter edition for week 50 of 2024
Dec 15, 2024 9 min read

Brief #82: Apple iCloud Vulnerability, Cloud Security Skills Gap, SolarWinds ARM Flaw

Ultralytics AI library compromised through GitHub Actions. OWASP releases landmark LLM security framework. Citrix expands zero-trust capabilities through key acquisitions

Newsletter mandos brief cybersecurity newsletter week 49 of 2024
Dec 8, 2024 9 min read

Brief #81: OpenAI Container Risks, Cloudflare Tunnel Attacks, AWS IR Service Launch

Data breach costs hit new high of $4.88M. Wiz introduces cloud-native security platform while agentic AI reshapes security operations.

Newsletter mandos brief newsletter for cybersecurity leaders by nikoloz kokhreidze week 48 of 2024
Dec 1, 2024 9 min read

Brief #80: Cloudflare Data Loss, Godot Malware, Claude AI Vulnerability

AI systems show critical vulnerabilities. Supply chain attacks target npm. AWS naming conventions create security risks.

Newsletter mandos brief cybersecurity newsletter for week 47 of 2024
Nov 24, 2024 9 min read

Brief #79: Apple Zero-Days, North Korean Threats, OWASP LLM Risks

McKinsey reveals $2T AI security market opportunity, while Apple patches critical zero-days and Wiz expands cloud security capabilities through strategic acquisition.

Newsletter mandos brief week 46 of 2024 cybersecurity newsletter
Nov 17, 2024 9 min read

Brief #78: Windows Zero-Day, NVIDIA's AI SOC Analyst, Google's 2025 Cyber Forecast

Critical Windows Task Scheduler vulnerability under active exploitation. NVIDIA revolutionizes SOC operations with AI. Google predicts evolving threat landscape.

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