Right-click on any Feed, Source, Web Alert or Board to add it to your Favorites section
Do you have a set of go-to-sources, boards, or Leo Web Alerts you navigate to regularly? You can now use the heart icon to pin them to the top of the left navigation bar and access them more quickly.
Right-click on any Feed, Source, Web Alert or Board to add it to your Favorites section.
If you were using the old favorites system, you should see a Favorites (Old) feed with the list of sources you added to your favorites. If you want to rename Favorites (Old) to a different name, please create a new feed and move the sources to that feed.
We are also adding a preference that allow you to use your first feed as your start page. This should allow you to continue to use your old favorites as your start page if that is your workflow.
However you choose to organize your Feedly, we want to make it easy to find what matters as fast as possible!
Leo recognizes IoCs mentioned in articles, and can gather them for you
Finding and collecting relevant indicators of compromise is critical to your security, but with millions of articles to sort through, discovering and collecting the right ones is a challenge. Even if you know where to look, IoCs can be easy to miss and tedious to upload to your threat intelligence platform.
This is why we’re excited to announce that now you can discover, collect, and export malicious IPs, domains, hashes, and URLs mentioned in your Feeds or across the web, because Leo recognizes indicators of compromise.
We trained Leo, your AI research assistant inside Feedly, to understand, find, and even export IoCs, so that they are easier to find and prioritize. This feature is included with Feedly for Cybersecurity.
“Being able to track IoCs with Feedly has been very helpful, our team has been using the new feature every day to be on top of potential risks. Just today,Leo was able to spot three IoCs in a long report I was reading although I hadn’t noticed them.”
Michelle Barro, Threat Intelligence Analyst at Verizon
Collect IoCs from across the entire web
Leo recognizes malicious IPs, domains, hashes, and URLs within the text of articles, Tweets, or Reddit posts, and tags articles so you know how many and what type of IoCs appear in a given article.
When an article contains an IoC, Leo will highlight it for you so it’s easy for you to find and confirm, even if it is buried in the text of a long article or threat intelligence report.
If the IoCs are relevant, you can export them to a markdown or STIX file that will include critical context such as the article link, malware, threat actor, CVE, product, and TTP information.
To track indicators of compromise from across the entire web, click the “+” symbol on the left hand navigation menu, and navigate to the ‘Web Alerts” tab. Type “Indicators of Compromise,” then click “+ AND” to refine your Web Alert further if needed.
Now that I can use Feedly to track IoCs across the web, our process to upload new indicators to our environment is much faster and easier. Being able to track IoCs across millions of sources on the web helps us cover every base possible.”
Cybersecurity engineer at a leading Fortune 500 technology company
Find and export indicators of compromise
Feedly for Cybersecurity is an OSINT platform used by more than 100 cybersecurity teams globally to speed up their threat intelligence. See how Feedly can help you conduct threat research up to 70% faster by starting a free trial.
Find IoCs related to a specific threat actor or malware
Let’s say you want to search for indicators of compromise related to a specific threat actor or malware. You can use Web Alerts to flag IoCs that match your query, even if the articles are from sources you don’t specifically follow.
The Web Alert shown in the example below will look for IoCs related to the Cobalt Strike malware family, making it easy to find what’s relevant, export it in seconds, and proactively monitor the web for future IoCs relevant to you.
Find and export IoCs and their context
When you open article(s) that contain IoCs you’d like to upload to your preferred threat intelligence platform, you can export them in either STIX or Markdown formats. This is a significant time saver in contrast to scrolling through the article and copying and pasting what you need.
Your export will also include the IoC context such as the original article link, related malware, threat actor, CVE, product, and TTP information. This makes it even easier to take action. Here is an example of a STIX export:
Automate your IoC collection process with the Feedly API
The Advanced Feedly for Cybersecurity plan includes up to 100,000 requests per month and the full power of the Feedly API. Any action a user is taking in the Feedly application can be performed via the Feedly API, including collecting IoCs. You can access instructions for doing so here.
You can use the Feedly API to aggregate indicators of compromise and their context (associated threat actors, malwares, vulnerabilities and TTPs) from recent articles in a Feed, and return a single STIX object with all of those components and their relationships.
To learn more about the power of the Feedly API or begin a trial or proof of context, click here.
It used to be particularly tedious to track the IoCs that are related to the critical UI CVEs or products my team has to be on top of. Now, with Feedly’s new IoC feature, I can track IoCs in a much faster and more visible way.”
Michael Rossi, Independent Security Consultant
Find relevant IoCs previously published online
Finally, if you need to search for a specific set of IoCs already published online, you can do this via Power Search. Power Search allows you to leverage Leo’s knowledge graph within your existing Feeds or across the web, allowing you to get much more granular and accurate than standard web searches.
Click the “” icon in the left navigation menu to access the Power Search screen. From here, you can look for any articles that contain indicators of compromise. This is ideal when you need to track a malware family you haven’t tracked before, and want to quickly find known IoCs that are already available online.
The Indicators of Compromise feature, CVE dashboard, cyber attacks Smart Topic, and several more advanced features are included with Feedly for Cybersecurity. This enterprise package is perfect for cybersecurity teams that need to conduct open-source threat intelligence more efficiently. To learn more about any of these features, or start a free 30-day trial, click the link below.
Find and export indicators of compromise
Feedly for Cybersecurity is an OSINT platform used by more than 100 cybersecurity teams globally to speed up their threat intelligence. See how Feedly can help you conduct threat research up to 70% faster by starting a free trial.
Leo understands and can track Fortune 500 companies and their aliases
Traditional keyword matches fail to understand aliases, synonyms and abbreviations, and standard content monitoring tools don’t allow you to track segments or industries, which puts you at risk of missing key information that could help you monitor the major players in your industry.
Today, we are excited to announce a new Leo smart topic, Fortune 500. This smart topic enables you to track mentions of the top 500 US companies without having to list each company (and their aliases) individually.
Layer topics to find what the content you need
Imagine you’re an analyst at a bank, and you’re interested in tracking what large companies and competitors are implementing around cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.
You can layer topics like “Cryptocurrency” with the Fortune 500 smart topic to find relevant articles quickly and ask Leo to include them in your Feeds.
Set a Leo Priority or Leo Web Alert with these filters to see articles about what Fortune 500 companies are doing with cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.
The Fortune 500 smart topic is available to Enterprise level customers. Try it today, or start a 30 day trial here.
Before using Leo, our team at Danone would struggle to find the most relevant information about our market and competitors. We would need to track our competitor names on Google News which would bring a lot of noise. Now that we use Leo to track our competitors, we have easy access to articles that are super aligned with what we need to track in our day to day.”
Yong Wang, Strategy & Global Insights, Danone
Find what matters with advanced AI
Put the power of AI in your hands, and track Fortune 500 events and trends proactively. Now available to all users in our Enterprise plan.
This smart topic, as well as, Big Tech and industries, and more are part of Leo’s Advanced AI skills, and are available as part of our Enterprise level plans.
Can I try this before I upgrade?
Yes! We offer a 30-day free trial of our Enterprise level plan, including onboarding and access for your team. Request your trial here.
Which companies are included in this Smart Topic?
Each organization in the “Fortune 500” entity belongs to the list of the 500 largest United States corporations (by total revenue in 2020), listed by Fortune here.
Can I teach Leo to understand other types of organizations?
Absolutely! Several of our Enterprise customers have shared lists of companies they would like to track in their Feedly. Please reach out to enterprise@feedly.com if you’re an Enterprise customer and we can help you track a custom company list.
We’re looking for a hands-on Marketing Automation Manager with Hubspot expertise to help us level up our B2B marketing efforts. You will own our Hubspot environment across the Marketing, Sales and Customer Success teams, and be responsible for educating the broader organization on data hygiene and digital marketing best practices.
Leverage Hubspot and other automation tools to improve marketing processes and productivity, keep up with and implement digital marketing best practices, and make recommendations to support the success of the marketing team.
Responsibilities
Own Hubspot execution across the Sales and Marketing Hub, with a particular focus in Workflow creation and analytics.
Work with the team to ensure contact database hygiene, proper audience segmentation, and object, property and record maintenance.
Set up email campaigns in collaboration with the broader marketing team, recommend and implement A/B and multivariate testing, and advise on ways to continuously improve overall email performance.
Continuously research relevant keywords opportunities and keep the content team up to date on these findings.
Assist with social media ideation, scheduling, and reporting.
Identify and educate the team on best practices for marketing automation, audience targeting and database hygiene, events and behavioral tracking instrumentation and digital channel measurement.
Set up and publish blog posts in WordPress.
Maintain and create Zapier integrations between several systems, including but not limited to Feedly, Hubspot, Copper CRM, Typeform, Slack and more.
Required skills and experience
You have 3+ years of experience with Hubspot, particularly focused on technical implementation. You’re also comfortable setting up custom events and behavior triggers in Hubspot and Google Analytics.
You have incredible attention to detail.
You can conduct keyword research for specific projects and monitor trends in order to make recommendations.
You have experience in B2B marketing.
You’ve managed cross-functional projects with success.
You’re an independent problem-solver, but not afraid to ask for help when needed.
Preferred skills and experience
You’re comfortable with HTML and CSS.
You have SaaS start-up experience.
You have experience in the cybersecurity or biopharma industry.
You already use and love Feedly.
You have experience working with developers and writing technical software requirements.
Benefits
Salary range: $70-90k, depending on experience, cross-functional abilities and location.
Remote working: Feedly is a remote-first startup, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. We believe in doing work we love, from places we love! Whether you prefer to work from home or an office, we support with coworking costs and a solid home-office setup.
Flexible hours: We believe that performance should be measured on output, and not when and how you work, so at Feedly, you will find a lot of flexibility to design your own rhythm of work.
A social work-life: We are a small and sociable group. We make an effort to stay connected with Zoom team kick-offs every week, 1-1s, and social catch-ups over games. Post Covid we expect to meet up every quarter for a few days of workshops and fun.
Growth mindset: We think learning is key to winning so we have created a learning budget of $1,200 per person to spend on courses, conferences, coaching or whatever you think will help you improve and grow.
Gym perk: Feedly supports healthy and balanced lifestyles and will refund up to $120 per month in “gym and other sport-related” expenses
Health insurance: Feedly offers and pays for medical, dental and vision coverage for all our employees and their dependents.
Process
Submit your resume and a screenshot or recreation of a Workflow automation you created with Hubspot, annotated with notes about the impact that workflow had.
30 minute phone screening with the Director of Demand Generation
60 minute team interview with members of the sales and marketing teams
How experts in market intelligence, cybersecurity, and biopharma translate their intelligence needs into Leo Web Alerts
The best way to get inspiration to create your own Leo Web Alerts and optimize the signal-to-noise ratio for your intelligence purposes is to look at examples that other researchers and analysts have created in Feedly. Here, we’ll show you examples of Leo Web Alerts that real Feedly users across industries use to track relevant trends and topics across the web.
Track emerging trends
Analysts at a gaming company combine the Non-Fungible Token (NFT) concept with Video Games to track NFTs in their space.
Keep up with innovation
Track innovation by your competitors or companies of interest, whether they’ve filed a new patent or created an existing technology.
Research the strategic moves of your competitors
An analyst at a retail company tracks the strategic moves their competitors are making: Are they launching new products? Raising funds? Signing partnerships? Combine the company with the various strategic moves you’re interested in to track these happenings.
Research consumer behavior
Analysts in the finance space combine the Consumer Insights concept with the Finance Industry” topic to surface insights on changes in consumers’ behavior in their space.
Find inspiration for your content marketing
Content Type concepts look for specific types of content (tutorials, listicles, expert insights, interviews, etc). Content creators and content strategists find inspiration for specific types of content by combining a content type with a social media platform, industry, or topic. For example, if you’re a social media strategist, you can track TikTok AND Tutorials to find examples of existing tutorials about TikTok.
Keep up with business leaders
This one’s simple. Salespeople targeting leads interested in specific leaders in the space just ask Leo to track that specific person.
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Discover and research critical vulnerabilities and zero-days
Cyber threat intelligence analysts use the Vulnerability concept to track vulnerabilities and filter them based on their CVSS score (actual or predicted). They combine the Vulnerability concept with a specific company, whether one of their customers or in their supply chain, to keep an eye out for critical vulnerabilities affecting the company.
Research threat actors
Analysts research specific threat actors and their corresponding tactics and techniques according to the MITRE ATT&CK framework by combining Threat Actor names with the Tactics and Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK) concept.
Track cyber attacks
Analysts use the Cyber Attacks concept combined with companies of interest (their own company, vendors, customers, or competitors) to track cyber attacks affecting these companies.
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Researchers at biopharma companies combine their disease of interest (like Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2) with the Scientific Breakthroughs concept to stay on top of the latest breakthroughs and innovations made by companies, startups, and research teams around this disease.
Track regulatory changes
Researchers at top pharma companies combine the concept of their disease of interest (Neoplasms, in this case) with the Regulatory Changes concept to track new laws and regulations, high-court rulings, bans, FDA and EMA approvals concerning this disease.
Try Feedly for Biopharma
Create personalized biopharma feeds to proactively track specific diseases, topics, and trends.
Concrete steps to widen your information gathering and never miss a thing
Asking Leo to monitor topics, trends and concepts you care about with a Web Alert is a great way to make sure you never miss what’s important to you. Leo’s advanced knowledge graph allows him to recognize topics and concepts like a human research assistant that never sleeps, saving you countless hours.
When you set up a Leo Web Alert, he will read hundreds of millions of sources across the web, even sources you aren’t already following. We’ve previously talked about refining your searches to reduce noise, but in some cases you may prefer to widen the net.
If this is the case, this article is for you! Below are our best tips for making Leo Web Alerts as broad as possible. This is especially helpful if your topic is very niche, or your job requires you to keep on top of even small mentions.
Ask Leo to read ‘Everything’ instead of just ‘Titles’
If you never want to miss a mention of your topic, you canask him to look for ‘Everything’ across the web, not just article ‘Titles’. This ensures Leo will find even small mentions in long articles. This is a great way to ensure you’re never missing relevant commentary across the web.
Example: Track product launches and partnerships from Apple in the finance industry, even when they are mentioned in the body of an article rather than the title.
Tell Leo to be less picky by increasing the number of articles he should show you
You can further expand your feed by requesting more articles per weekrelated to this topic. Think of this like telling Leo not to leave anything out of your feed, even small mentions. This is especially important if your job involves close tracking of niche concepts.
I can ask Leo to find more articles for me every week by surfacing content from more niche sources.
Layer Web Alerts and Google Alerts to compare the differences
Generally speaking, Leo Web Alerts will be more relevant than Google News Alerts or keyword alerts. This is because Google News Alerts limit your search only to top news and trade publications, and keyword alerts track exact keyword matches, rather than smart concepts.
When comparing a similar Google Alert and Leo Web Alert inside Feedly, you can see that there is some overlap, but Leo surfaces even more relevant articles, and Leo gives you the ability to refine your search as needed to decrease noise.
Leo flags relevant articles about Apple product launches and partnerships in the finance industry and adds them to my Web Alert.
If you’re not ready to convert your Google Alerts, you can have both in a feed! Google Alerts are indicated by the magnifying glass icon, while Leo Web Alerts are indicated by the bullseye icon. If you want to compare results between your two alerts, set them both up as sources for the same Feed, and you’ll be able to compare results side-by-side daily.
When you’re ready, you can delete one of the alerts or refine your Leo Web Alert anytime by hitting ‘Refine’ in the upper right corner of your Web Alert.
When in doubt, we can help
We’ve been working hard on Leo Web Alerts behind the scenes, and helping you be successful is our top priority. If you’re still struggling to get your Feeds just right, we can help. Click below to schedule a short call with one of our experts, and we’ll have you up and running in no time. We can’t wait to meet you!
Web Alerts are a no-brainer for anyone who needs to be on top of things that matter to them. I found using Google Alerts inconvenient because I’d have to set them up outside Feedly. Now that I use Web Alerts, I am sure that I am keeping as much in Feedly as possible.”
Mark Evans, Principal Product Manager, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group
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Schedule a quick session with a customer success manager and we’ll set up your Leo Web Alerts together.
Get what’s relevant to you in your feed using Leo Web Alerts
There’s a fine balance between reducing noise and never missing out on important information. Leo Web Alerts let you cast a wide net: Just tell Leo to track your chosen concept (like companies, trends, technologies, malware families…) across the web, and you’ll get the results in Feedly. Then, refine your Web Alerts based on your specific requirements. In this tutorial, we’ll show you a few advanced tips and tricks that can help you optimize the signal-to-noise ratio based on your area of interest.
Ask Leo to search through ‘Titles’ only, instead of ‘Everything’
Example: Track Fortune 500 companies in the retail industry, but only when they are mentioned in an article’s title (and therefore, the main idea of the story).
When you’re setting up a Web Alert, Leo can track your topic across “Everything” — this means he will read article titles and the full text, searching for the concepts you’re interested in.
This is a great way to make sure you’re never missing out, but can sometimes result in noise in your feed. For example, if your topic is mentioned in a long article, but is not the subject of the entire piece.
To avoid this noise, you can switch to “Title” matching mode, and Leo will surface articles that mention your topic or concept in the title only.
Track Leo Concepts instead of keywords
When tracking a concept with keywords, you have to manually list out possible keywords. We’ve pre-trained Leo to recognize hundreds of concepts, so you can replace a long list of keywords with a single concept. Leo Concepts are machine learning models that replace large sets of keywords, remove blind spots, and reduce noise.
With keyword searches, you’d need to account for every possible keyword that might be related to product launches. Leo has been trained to recognize and flag product launches, even if articles don’t contain the words “product launch” at all.
For example, if you want to track product launches with keywords, many articles might mention the phrase “product launch” rather than actually provide news about a launch. You can leverage Leo Concepts, as Leo has been trained to recognize and flag launches — even if they don’t contain the phrase “product launch” at all — in articles like this one, for example.
Then, combine concepts (like adding your industry or a specific company you want to keep an eye on) to improve the signal-to-noise ratio even more.
Adjust the velocity slider to control the volume
You can specify how many articles per week you want to see related to this topic. Think of this like telling Leo how picky you would like him to be when he chooses which articles to show you.
In the first step in the slider, Leo reads manually curated top-notch industry publications, blogs, business and strategy magazines, and research journals. As you move the slider to the right, Leo will browse through sources that are less and less popular. Adjusting the velocity slider can drastically reduce noise in your feed.
Refine your bundles: Specify the types of publications you want Leo to draw from
Leo knows the difference between a research journal or a news article, and between a news article and a blog post, etc. This is incredibly helpful when you want to keep up with everything related to your topic of interest, but you only want to hear from experts.
Under the “Sources” tab, you canselect from a variety of bundles of sources.
Example: In this example, I want to search through Strategy Magazines, Industry Publications, Tech Blogs, and Business Magazines, but not National Newspapers.
Exclude irrelevant companies, products, topics, or sources
To exclude a noisy source or topic in your preview results, you can click the Less Like This button.
When you’re previewing a Web Alert, click the ‘Less Like This’ button to tell Leo to exclude a noisy source or topic you’d rather not see.
You can also exclude topics when you’re creating a Web Alert with the ‘NOT’ section.
You can choose to exclude a website, like pymnts.com, or a specific concept, like DevOps.
Our recommendation: start with a wide net, refine as you go
For the best results, we recommend starting with a wide net (Leo recommends the best settings for you by default), and using the preview screen to refine more. Web Alerts become a “source” for your specified Feed, and you can always go back and refine them further.
To recap, here are the basic steps to translating your intelligence needs into Leo Web Alerts:
Tell Leo what concepts you want to track
Use AND, OR, and NOT to optimize the signal-to-noise ratio
If needed, refine sources with your own trusted sources
To refine an existing Web Alert, click on the Web Alert inside your Feed, and you’ll see a “Refine” button — this returns you to the screen where you originally set up this alert and allows you to update it as and when necessary.
Leo gets smarter as you give him more feedback. You can give Leo feedback by selecting “Less like this” on articles that aren’t quite right. Leo will adapt based on your feedback and become even more helpful over time.
Click “Refine” if you need to narrow down your search at any time or give feedback for Leo to get smarter and provide better content to you.
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Easily track critical cyber attacks across your industry and supply chain.
The only constant in the realm of cyber security is change; hackers are continuously maturing and becoming more sophisticated, attack patterns are constantly evolving, and the threat landscape is growing more volatile every day; one cyber attack occurs every 39 seconds.
That’s why we’ve enhanced Leo’s knowledge of cyber attacks, targets, and industries so you can keep pace with the threat landscape and do what you do best: maintain the integrity of your security posture. You can ask Leo, your AI research assistant, to flag critical cyber attacks in your feeds and focus on specific attacks targeting your industry or supply chain. You can also push attack insights to your internal platforms via the Feedly API.
Track all types of cyber attacks with a single smart topic priority
Leo flags important information to focus your efforts on targeted insights. Leo understands cyber attacks because we taught him about malware, ransomware, data breaches, phishing, social engineering, and fraud.
You can train Leo further and have him focus on the specific topics, threats, and threat actors you care about to gain a deeper understanding of the threat landscape as it applies to you.
From a proactive monitoring perspective, the power of using Feedly and Leo is to actually inform you of breaches before anyone else knows.”
Cybersecurity Analyst at a top energy provider
You can start by training Leo to recognize cyber attacks as a smart topic, a concept that Leo has been trained to understand with our AI models. Simply navigate to the security category you want to add this insight to and enter “cyber attack” as a topic. Training Leo to highlight cyber attacks in your security feed keeps you up-to-date with the most recent reports. Highlighting the attacks that are actually being conducted in the wild helps you effectively prioritize and ensures you never miss a thing.
Focus on attacks targeting specific industries or Fortune 500 companies
We’ve taught Leo to recognize 19 industry sectors to ensure you always have the most current industry-relevant threat intelligence at your fingertips. Don’t see your industry? No problem! Ask us and we’ll teach Leo to recognize it.
We were able to turn the list of our top partners into a Leo Priority and ask Leo to flag cyberattacks targeting those partners. That’s how we identified that one of our vendors had been breached a week before that the actual company told us.”
Cybersecurity Analyst at top energy provider
Leo also recognizes each company listed in the Forbes Fortune 500 list to help you optimize and maintain your vendor security initiatives.You can gain these deeper insights simply by adding the industry or company you want Leo to flag for you.
You can use Leo to detect new risks, reinforce your vendor risk programs, and potentially be the first to discover a breach.
Track attacks targeting your supply chain
Track up to 1,000 vendors in your supply chain to see the most relevant cyber attacks early.
Supply chain attacks have been in the limelight recently. Now, Leo can help you cross-reference your known vulnerabilities with the latest threat intelligence. Proactive alerting informs you of critical vulnerabilities, cyber attacks, and emerging threats before anyone else. Need to know about zero-day exploits as soon as they are targeted? No problem. Need to create your own list of companies you want to track? Leo has your back.
Leo continuously gets smarter and more accurate. This process is optimized with your feedback! With the ‘Less Like This’ button, you can let Leo know the article he prioritized is wrong or not relevant to you.
Everything you need, nothing you don’t
Every second counts in cybersecurity. You tell Leo what you want and he populates the insights you need, when you need them.
Leo does the work upfront so you can filter out the noise and save massive time, working smarter and faster. Up to 80% faster.
Before using Leo to track cyber attacks, we would struggle with an overload of data and waste time sifting through information. Our feed is now 2-3 times shorter, we do not miss out on any important cyber attacks and we earned back so much time!“
Anonymous Cybersecurity Analyst
Want to track specific cyber attacks in your field?
The Leo Cyber Attack skill is one of Leo’s advanced AI skills in the Feedly for Cybersecurity package.
Relevant, real-time threat intelligence based on your vendor list
Cybersecurity vendor risk management (VRM) is notoriously difficult. Security teams need to know when their vendors experience a security incident, but they often lack visibility into supply chain threats.
Many companies only learn about a security incident when the vendor notifies them. Meanwhile, as soon as threat actors know about a vulnerability, they start acting on that knowledge, which leaves you increasingly vulnerable.
Additionally, not every vulnerability affects your security, and not every vulnerability affects your security equally. You need meaningful, real-time insight into the high risk threats facing your company and supply chain vendors.
With Feedly for Cybersecurity, you can create Feeds tailored to your technology stack and supply chain, including hardware, software, and firmware for streamlined monitoring enabling proactive remediation. Unlike keyword matching, Leo uses artificial intelligence to recognize key information so that you never miss important information. You can also share this focused risk intelligence with industry peer groups like Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) or team members using email, messaging applications, and the Feedly API.
From a proactive monitoring perspective, the power of using Feedly is to actually inform you of breaches before anyone else knows.”
Anonymous Cybersecurity analyst in the energy industry
Reduce the noise with a Feed focused on your supply chain risks
Threat researchers use many different intelligence tools. Whether getting data from a managed services provider (MSP), setting news alerts, following social media, or collecting cybersecurity newsletters, the time and information overload is overwhelming. To reduce noise, you might be setting alert emails to come in once a day. However, filtering through all those emails is time-consuming and overwhelming. On top of this, once you find a nugget of valuable information, you need to do independent research to get the details you need to protect your company, and you need them quickly.
We trained Leo to understand cybersecurity and critical vulnerabilities to synthesize all the information you need. Training Leo by setting Priorities based on your vendor list lets you teach him to focus on only what you need to secure your environment information. Priorities help you teach Leo about the risks unique to your supply chain, whether it’s hardware, software, or a non-technology business partner.
By customizing your Feed using Leo and Priorities, you fine-tune your threat intelligence and build visibility around risk criticality.
Creating dashboards around the threat intelligence you need
Leo knows cybersecurity, and you can teach Leo to know your supply chain risk, too. With the LEO CVE Dashboard, you get at-a-glance, real-time visibility into:
CVSS score and vector string
CWE
Affected systems, including vendor advisories
Exploit information
Patches
Associated malware families
Associated threat actors
Awareness graph
Number of Web and Social Media mentions, including Twitter and Reddit
Teach Leo which vendors to track
More than just reducing the noise, Leo streamlines threat intelligence research with visualizations that help you prioritize your organization’s risk.
In your Today feed, you’ll see a list of recent, critical vulnerabilities for at-a-glance visibility into new threats facing your technology stack.
When you click on the vulnerability, you’ll see a color-coded awareness graph for at-a-glance visibility into what people are saying about a specific CVE.
The clickable boxes direct you to more information about the vulnerability, including:
threat actors
malware families
affected systems
available patches
By training Leo and setting Priorities, you get focused threat intelligence giving you the visibility you need and enabling you to respond more rapidly to new threats. This visibility improves key cybersecurity metrics like reducing mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to remediate (MTTR).
For example, one customer in the energy industry used Priorities alerting them to a new vulnerability so that they could patch the problem within two days, rather than having a security weakness that could lead to a data breach. .
Set Priorities to focus your feed
Setting Priorities to teach Leo about your critical supply chain risks is an intuitive process.
Start by defining the level of CVE criticality you care about most. If you need more than one Feed so that you can look at High Risk and Moderate Risk CVEs, you can do that, too.
Now, personalize that Feed to your current critical technologies and business partners. You can add any as you want, including business applications, messaging apps, or any other critical vendors that your team wants to monitor. To add more terms and risks, just click ‘OR’ and add each new term.
Use the Feedly Cybersecurity API to prioritize remediation activities
Once you have the information, you need to share it across the team to remediate risk. The Feedly Cybersecurity API gives you a way to share information and reduce MTTR.
Feedly supplies access tokens so that you can send the aggregated CVE/CVSS/Exploit information using JSON format. By translating to JSON, Feedly gives you a way to align your threat intelligence with your event log data to enhance correlation and analysis. With our API, you can connect your threat intelligence into any Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) or Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) solution that uses these integrations. For example, the Feedly API adds metadata to articles including associated malware families and threat actors, entities mentioned, and MITRE tactics and techniques., With all the information you need in a single location, you bring together the technical information and threat intelligence together for full visibility into all risks.
Finally, you can forward critical security data directly to your ticketing application, like Jira, and build it directly into your team’s workflow. This capability saves time since you don’t need to jump between different windows and applications.
“Leo makes Feedly unique because he allows us to build queries and thus create our own Feeds. This gives us the ability to focus on the articles we WANT to read.”
Anonymous Cyber Threat Intelligence Researcher
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Steve Makofsky shares how Feedly has become part of his newsletter creation workflow
When the world went into lockdown back in March 2020, Steve Makofsky, like many of us, was feeling a little restless.
Steve, a long-time tech executive (Disney, Nike), is an engineer with a passion for streamlining his workflow and feeding his mind. Could he find a quarantine project that allowed him to do both while keeping up with his insane to-do list? With a little ingenuity (and the help of Feedly), the answer turned out to be yes.
Searching for a signal in a sea of noise
Back in the day Steve, a tech old-timer, stayed up to date via blogs. As a reader he found it easy to discover interesting new perspectives simply by checking the blog rolls of his favorite writers and visiting the sites they recommended. As the author of a couple of bookson programming he also blogged himself to drive interest towards his work.
But as the Internet evolved, Steve found less and less value in blogs. He still dug around online for useful takes and fresh voices, but it felt a whole lot harder to find them. “Something has been lost in blogging,” he says. “I found discovery of similar content to what I like, or maybe opposing views to challenge some of my ideas, has been a real struggle.”
As a service to a small group of friends and colleagues facing similar challenges, Steve began sending out an ‘annual report’ listing resources they might find interesting. He often received grateful notes in reply. Then, coronavirus struck and Steve found himself with time on his hands. He wondered if he couldn’t supercharge his ‘annual report,’ turning it into a weekly newsletter offering links to great resources from around the web.
Squeezing a passion project into a jam-packed schedule
Steve has an extremely busy day job, which means he needed to find an efficient way to discover and process content for his new passion project. Enter Feedly, stage right. He began supplementing his existing feeds with content he discovered using Feedly’s AI research assistant, Leo, as well as scouring Twitter and Reddit for interesting sources.
He also subscribed to a number of Substack newsletters, which he’s happy to aggregate with the rest of his content via Feedly, sparing his inbox further clutter. “I’m glad I don’t have 83 things hit my inbox every day anymore,” he laughs. Steve then uses Feedly to sort all these insights into topical feeds like ‘Mind Changers’ (for writers that often shift his perspective) and ‘Workflow’ (for time-saving tips). (You can read a deeper diver into his aggregation process here.)
It’s an incoming river of content, but Steve has designed a streamlined system for winnowing it down to just the ten or so links he includes in his weekly newsletter.
“Every two or three days, I have a reminder to clean out my to-read list. I carve out 30 minutes in the evening to read some stuff. By the end of the week, I end up with 30 or 40 tagged items. I spend Friday night really going through them, getting the pulse of what I want to talk about, and limiting them down to ten,” he explains.
A bit of clever automation Steve built allows him to export his top links, along with their headlines, into a template. After another 30 minutes of summarizing and polishing, he’s ready to hit send on his weekly newsletter of suggested links.
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All together that adds up to no more than a few hours a week for Steve’s newsletter side project, but he’s seen sizable benefits from this modest investment of time. First, recipients seem genuinely appreciative. “Oddly enough, it is gathering an audience,” he says of his weekly updates. “I did not expect that. I just write pretty authentically, but it seems to resonate with people.”
Perhaps even more importantly, Steve believes the project not only kept him occupied in quarantine but also gives him a leg up professionally.
“The process has kept me in tune with what’s going on around me with technology. I’ll sit around with my colleagues and I’ll be talking about something they don’t know about. So it enables me to keep up with what’s up and coming. It’s good mental exercise.”
With all due respect to quarantine baking or gardening, that is a pretty impressive benefit for a lockdown side project.
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