People, Orgs
& Communities

People to Follow

These are the practitioners I'd point any CTI analyst toward on day one: educators, builders, and community leaders who consistently put out work worth your attention.

SANS instructor, CTI advocate, and supporter of Cyberjutsu Girls Academy. Katie has a rare ability to make complex intelligence concepts genuinely accessible without dumbing them down.

☞ If you follow one person in CTI, make it Katie.

SANS co-author and founder of BushidoToken Threat Intel and Curated Intelligence. Will produces some of the most consistently rigorous open-source threat research in the field.

☞ Follow for deep technical tracking of threat actor infrastructure.

MITRE ATT&CK lead with former roles at Dragos, DomainTools, Huntress, and Gigamon. Joe brings a level of analytical rigor to threat intelligence that is genuinely rare.

☞ Essential reading for anyone doing ICS/OT or attribution work.

Community educator and Cyversity mentor who gives back to the field in ways that go well beyond his day job.

☞ A model for what community-minded CTI practice looks like.

Content creator sharing CTI education through TikTok and her website. Background in military and marketing, and she brings an angle on communication that most analysts never develop.

☞ Proof that CTI education doesn't have to be dry.

Speaker and infosec community advocate who has built one of the most genuinely useful security newsletters out there.

☞ Vulnerable U is required reading. Full stop.

Cybersecurity leader focused on public-private partnerships and cyber resilience. Helped shape the modern US cyber posture during a pivotal era.

☞ For the big picture on how policy and intelligence intersect.

Organizer of the Cybersecurity Cares annual charity telethon and one of the most quietly impactful people in the security community.

☞ Building tools and community in equal measure.

CTI platform builder and community extraordinaire. Grace brings both technical depth and genuine warmth to everything she does in this space.

☞ An incredible human being and CTI extraordinaire.

Runs CyberSpeak Labs and its free annual conference, CyberLab Con, and helps steer mentorship and scholarships at The Ginger Hacker Initiative. I've only crossed paths with Reanna once, on a panel together, but she brought real insight to the conversation and clearly has a gift for building free, accessible spaces for people trying to break into the field.

☞ Building genuinely free pathways into cybersecurity, one community project at a time.

Leads security, risk, and compliance at Whistic, and serves as a board member and CISO for the Ragnarok Foundation on top of that. Another panelist I've only recently gotten to know, but he brought genuine insight and generosity to our conversation.

☞ Giving back to the community well beyond his day job.

A jack-of-many-trades across red team, blue team, engineering, and edge security, with a real passion for speaking at cons to share what he knows for the good of the community. Moderated our Simply Cyber panel with genuine care, and if he doesn't know something, he'll find out with you rather than fake it.

☞ Kind, sincere, and always giving back to this community.