Brewfile Throwdown; CyberSecTools; Mapping The Social Web

Grandkids are in town a couple weeks ahead of our forthcoming Acadia fam holiday break, so you’re getting a condensed version of the Drop today, and likely no Bonus Drop this weekend. Regular Drop schedule next week, tho.

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Brewfile Throwdown

We recently talked about Brewfiles in the Drop, and the folks from Warp (which is a great idea of a browser, if only I could run the server on my own) have come up with Brewfiles.com. It’s a way to share your Brewfiles, which lets it build a “leaderboard” of the most popular formulae.

As of today, it’s pretty sparse, but if it catches on, it could be a great way to learn about new tools/apps!

CyberSecTools

Billed as “the largest curated directory of cybersecurity tools and resources”, CyberSecTools does a fairly good job executing on that promise (despite not listing my org’s service/tool). It has nearly 2,400 tools across the following categories:

• AI Security
• Application Security
• Blogs and News
• Cloud and Container Security
• Data Protection and Cryptography
• Digital Forensics
• Endpoint Security
• Governance, Risk, and Compliance
• Guides and eBooks
• Honeypots
• Identity, Access, and Credential Management
• Malware Analysis
• Network Security
• Offensive Security
• Security Operations
• SIEM and Log Management
• Specialized Security
• Threat Management
• Training and Resources
• Vulnerability Management

It’s compiled by a vendor (you’ll notice that immediately), and these “tools” aren’t just ones you install or code with. Some are services you interact with.

Non-cyber folks should get some 👀 on it, since there are some “adjacent” tools/sites that I think most readers would find useful.

Mapping The Social Web

Bluesky and Threads are two fairly new socmed platforms that enable knowledge-sharing (with Threads, it’s more “influence peddling”) and community engagement. They each have have distinct features and humans who dwell in them, and they are both being explored by organizations like the Newsmast Foundation to enhance community interactions across the social web.

Newsmast not only uses both, they did a deep dive into them. Their research identifies key contributors in various communities and aims to bridge these contributors across Bluesky, Threads, and the Fediverse. By establishing common hashtags, emojis, and feeds, Newsmast seeks to create interconnected communities that help increase engagement and the exchange of knowledge. In the paper, they identify top communities such as Politics, Photography, US Politics, Climate Change, and Technology as strong prospects for cross-platform knowledge-sharing.

I don’t want to color your views of the report beyond that introduction. You can combine that reading with their inaugural report on the Fediverse.

If you have some reading time, check out their manifesto. And, if you’re interested in their ActivityPub-based platform, poke around newsmast.org.

FIN

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