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The Compendium
All my favorite CTI stuff
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All the acronyms, in plain English.
Tooling
Tools
What I use, plus my honest opinions on it.
Intel
Threat Actors
Where I go to look up who’s who.
Community
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Who to follow and where to find your people.
Learning
Trainings
Courses, self-study, and opinions you didn’t ask for lol
From the Scroll
Latest from the blog
Oct 16, 2026
Show Your Work: Building a CTI Portfolio That Actually Helps You Get Hired
Most of what CTI analysts write at work lives under NDA, so how do you prove you can do the job? You make your own samples. This is the start of a five-part series where we build a whole CTI portfolio from one investigation: a profile, a deep pivot, a script, an exec brief, and an AI agent.
Read post →Oct 4, 2026
Roll for Investigation: A Beginner's Guide to Pivoting
One suspicious domain is a clue. Pivoting is how you turn it into the whole picture. Free tools, a safe hands-on exercise, and an interactive lab to practice the one skill beginners get wrong the most.
Read post →Aug 2, 2026
Bring a Belt: Everything I Know About Speaking at Cybercons
Real talk on CFPs, slide decks, stage nerves, and yes, why you should always pack a belt. A culmination of advice from a panel celebrating two years of Simply Cyber's Public Speaking Group I did back in April.
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