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 industry intelligence, cybersecurity, and biopharma created Leo Web Alerts to track key topics and trends
Don’t you wish you could look over the shoulder of top industry research specialists, cybersecurity analysts, or biopharma researchers and see how they use their tools to keep up and save time? Here, we’ll show you three examples of Leo Web Alerts from real Feedly users, which they use to track specific topics and trends in their industries.
Once you create your Leo Web Alert, Leo continuously reads through millions of articles and flags specific ones based on topics and concepts you choose (not just keywords). Leo understands concepts like a human, but he searches millions of sources that a human couldn’t easily get through.
Let’s take a look at a few industry-specific examples.
Funding events can say a lot about the hot startups in your industry. You can see how much companies like yours are raising, or stay informed about the top investors in your space. Leo understands funding events, so you can create a Leo Web Alert for funding events AND your industry.
In this example, if I want to track funding events in the insurance industry, I can create and follow a Leo Web Alert using AND. In this example, we’re refining the number of articles per week to 53, so I’ll only see the top 53 results each week.
I can track funding events in the insurance industry with this Leo Web Alert.
Leo Web Alerts for cybersecurity intelligence
Leo understands key security intelligence concepts so that you can easily define the topics and threats that are critical to you.
In this example, a Feedly for Cybersecurity customer wanted to track cyber attacks in the telecom industry. They created a Web Alert for cyber attacks AND telecom industry, across a selection of cybersecurity groups of sources.
I can track cyber attacks in the telecom industry across cybersecurity-specific sources.
Leo Web Alerts for biopharma research
Teams who use Feedly for biopharma research often need to track clinical trials related to diseases they develop drugs for, or diseases their company is interested in. Since Leo understands diseases, you can track articles about the disease and other concepts.
Here, one Feedly for biopharma customer created a Leo Web Alert to track cancer (neoplasms) AND mRNA. They selected three biopharma-specific groups of sources that we pre-curated: Biopharma Business, Biopharma Regulatory, and Science Journals. Then, they used the ‘Articles per week’ slide to receive 19 articles per week.
I can track Neoplasms and mRNA across groups of biopharma-specific sources.
Inspired? Create your own Leo Web Alerts
Need help creating your first few Leo Web Alerts? Schedule a quick session with a customer success manager and we’ll set up your Leo Web Alerts together.
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.
<em>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.</em>Once I ask Leo to find the content I need in the body of the article rather than in the title only, I am sure I am not missing out on anything in my Leo Web Alert.
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
Something missing?
Schedule a quick session with a customer success manager and we’ll set up your Leo Web Alerts together.
A complete tutorial on finding what you need across the web using Leo Web Alerts
There’s a fine balance between reducing noise and never missing out on important information. When you know what topics you want to keep up with, but you aren’t sure what you might be missing, Leo can help with Web Alerts!
Using Leo Web Alerts, you can effortlessly monitor hundreds of millions of sources across the web, and be confident that relevant articles will show up in your Feedly. Leo will read every source with a related topic, and flag the ones that match your alerts, so you always know where to look for relevant insights.
Unlike traditional keyword matching or search tools, Web Alerts leverages Leo’s advanced knowledge graph, so you can accurately track concepts, topics, and entities even when keywords don’t match exactly.
So, how can you use Leo Web Alerts to be sure you’re getting the most relevant information, every day?Here, we’ll show you how.
Ask Leo to search through ‘Titles’ only, instead of ‘Everything’
<em>Example: Track product launches from 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).</em>
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.
Ask Leo to be more picky about which articles he shows you
You can further refine your feed by specifying how many articles per weekyou 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.
This step can drastically reduce noise in your feed.
Specify the types of publications you want to read
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 source types.
<em>Example: In this example, I want to search through Strategy Magazines, Business Magazines, Tech Blogs and National Newspapers only. </em>
Exclude irrelevant companies, products, topics, or sources
Because Leo understands so many concepts, topics and business events, and is getting smarter all the time, I can also smartly exclude topics when I want to increase the relevance of my Web Alert.
<em>Example: I want to see new product launches in the retail industry, but not ones related to the beverage </em>industry or from an irrelevant crypto source.
Our recommendation: start with a wide net, refine as you go
Leo Web Alerts were created to help expand the scope of what could be surfaced inside Feedly. Even the best industry analysts can’t know about every possible source, and with the help of Web Alerts, they don’t have to! Now, with Leo as your AI research assistant, you can discover the right information easily, and over time, better understand what sources to follow directly.
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.
Click on your 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.
<em>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. </em><br>
More of a visual person? Start with this short video
Stuck? We can help.
Schedule a quick session with a customer success manager and we’ll set up your Leo Web Alerts together.
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.
Add Steve’s blog to your Feedly!
Click here to follow Steve’s blog, right from your Feedly account.
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.
Leo is now integrated with 15 vendor advisories, giving you real-time access to relevant CVE and CVSS information, directly in your feed.
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New Leo CVE Skill – Vendor Advisory Integrations
“Hi folks, this is Remi from Feedly. I wanted to share with you the latest updates on the Leo cybersecurity skills, which has to do with vendor advisory integration. Very exciting one.
The premise for this is that we’ve heard from a lot of our customers that connecting Leo’s knowledge graph directly to vendor advisory sites would be highly beneficial to get updates on CVEs faster, basically immediately as they get published on those vendor sites.
So we built it as you can see, we started integration with the most prominent vendor sites, as you can see here. So we’ve got our Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco if you have any vendor of choice that is not in this list, please let us know because we’re continuously adding more vendor sites to to the knowledge graph. Your feedback is important and will be taken into consideration.
To show you what that looks like, if you take a look at your Today page and your CVE dashboard and your trending vulnerabilities on the right hand side, you can zoom in to this latest vulnerability for Microsoft from a couple of days ago. Click on the CVSS score, which just normally just opens up the NVD page for that vulnerability, you can see that at the NVD level, this is still under undergoing analysis. And there isn’t much detail about it yet on the Phoebe side of things.
Thanks to Leo, you still have all of the elements that appear over here, as well as your usual reference articles and all the chatter around that particular CVE. This is because Leo is picking up that information directly from the Microsoft site and makes all of these updates again, almost in real time. So the outcome of this is that you can really be aware of what’s happening around these critical vulnerabilities sooner without having to go individually to all these other sites and looking up IDs.”
Which vendor advisories does Leo integrate with already?
Mozilla, Google Android, Microsoft MSRC, CISA, Google Chrome, F5, Cisco, Apple, Redhat, ZDI, Oracle, Dell, Adobe, Jenkins, ElasticSearch
I don’t see a vendor advisory I need on this list – can you add it?
Yes! Contact your Customer Success Manager and we are happy to connect additional vendor advisories for you.
Contextualized CVE information for faster threat research, without the overwhelm
Cyber attacks are increasing in volume and sophistication across every industry and category, leaving threat analysts and frontline security teams faced with a flood of information. The consequences of missing critical information are astronomical, but no human can keep up with this onslaught of data on their own.
You needrelevant, real-time, accurate information – and scrolling through an endless list of sources won’t get you there. That’s why we’re excited to announce that Leo, your AI research assistant, now aggregates information on vulnerabilities, exploits, malware families, and threat actors into a single view so that he can help you proactively track and research CVEs.
The Leo CVE Dashboard gives you at-a-glance visibility into relevant trending vulnerabilities, and you can use Leo to focus any of your feeds for faster insight into risks impacting your business’s software, hardware, and application stack.
Information overload is real. This is why we enhanced Leo’s cybersecurity knowledge graph so he can help you proactively track and research critical vulnerabilities and zero-day exploits relevant to you.
With Leo, you can prioritize the CVEs that impact your organization’s technology stack and reduce the time it takes to investigate threats by up to 70%. All of this information is available at a glance via the Leo CVE Dashboard and throughout your Feeds.
Before using Feedly for Cybersecurity, my biggest challenge was to quickly sort through all the data to find the top CVEs by mention, and track their relationships with exploits, patches, etc. It would take a lot of work to search through unstructured text and large bulk files. With Leo, it’s so much easier to quickly review details of a CVE and its associated relationships.”
Michael Rossi, Independent Security Consultant, Cybeta
The Leo CVE Dashboard: a complete CVE overview in a glimpse
If you want to dive deeper into a CVE, exploit, or threat, Leo synthesizes vulnerability, patch, exploit/PoC, malware, and threat actor information into a single CVE Dashboard. Leo eliminates the time you used to spend opening a new browser tab, searching, browsing for the resource you want, and skimming everything individually to find what mattered.
Instead of having dozens of research tabs open in your browser, The Leo CVE Dashboard consolidates the information into a single location where you have at-a-glance views of:
Number of Web and Social Media mentions, including Twitter and Reddit
For new vulnerabilities that don’t have a CVSS assigned yet, Leo uses a proprietary NLP model based on the CVSS v3 methodology to forecast this score. This way, you can spot new threats and take proactive steps in real-time.
Color-coding helps you make quick decisions about the next steps in your investigation. The darker the color on the Awareness graph, the more people are talking about the CVE across the web.
Get complete CVE overviews in a glimpse.
Leo provides links to all the external resources you need to investigate the CVE, so you can more rapidly respond to threats and improve important cybersecurity metrics like mean time to detection (MTTD), mean time to investigate (MTTI), and mean time to remediate (MTTR).
Dig deeper, faster, to determine if a specific vulnerability represents a critical risk for your organization based on its technology stack to decide whether to flag the intel and share it with the rest of your team.
For example, you can click on “Affected System” or “Patched” to go directly to those sources like the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Vulnerability Database or websites with patches for remediation purposes.
Click elements on the dashboard for more context and source material.
“Before using Feedly for Cybersecurity, it was hard to prioritize which vulnerabilities were more important at a glance and determine if they applied to our networks. Now that we use Leo, we have been saving so much time, it’s much appreciated!“
– Feedly for Cybersecurity Customer
Leo can surface relevant critical vulnerabilities across your Feeds
In addition to his interactive CVE Dashboard, Leo also prioritizes the most recent and talked about CVEs, right on your Today page. Simply click on a CVE name to see the dashboard complete with the information necessary for critical decision-making.
Leo knows cybersecurity because we taught him about CVE, CVSS, exploits, patches, threat actors, and other security intelligence concepts. Leo summarizes the information from various resources including NVD, vendor advisories, blogs, Twitter, and Reddit so you don’t have to check each location, sifting through posts unrelated to the CVE you care about.
The Trending in Cybersecurity dashboard showcases the top 5 trending vulnerabilities.
You can add new Leo Priorities on top of your current feed to add contextual business risk. For example, if your technology stack includes Oracle, Adobe, and Google Chrome, but not Samba, you can refine Leo’s priorities so you only see what’s relevant to your organization.
Train Leo to prioritize vulnerabilities based on CVSS score to increase the relevance of your feed. Leo can flag risks related to your organization’s unique technology stack so you can out pace attackers.
You can start by training Leo to surface CVE’s based on Qualitative Severity Rating Scale — choose our preset for “high” or specify the CVSS scores to build your organization’s context into what you see.
Training Leo by using “HIGH” in combination with either products or vulnerability types personalizes your feed based on your organization’s unique needs. This lets you focus on the risks specific to your organization, weeding out the information you don’t need.
Surface the critical (CVSS > 8 or CVSS > 5 and exploit) vulnerabilities related to Oracle, Adobe, and Chrome.
All of these features, plus several more, are available as a part of Feedly for Cybersecurity. This package of Leo skills, enterprise features, and advanced knowledge graph access is perfect for cybersecurity teams that need to reduce noise and quickly identify risks. To learn more about any of these features, or start a free 30-day trial, click the link below.
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