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It was a slow weekend for original reporting in the cybersecurity industry, but if last week was any indication of the state of security, we should have another busy week ahead.

You’ll also notice some different kinds of content, but all with a security slant to it. Keep letting us know what you think!

ON DECK FOR TODAY

• Self-Learning AI Is Here. Self-Learning Threat Actors Are Next.

• Airbyte Gives You The 4 Step Playbook For Outreach

• JALA-MEME-ÑOS: 🌶️ 🤣

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Self-Learning AI Is Here. 
Self-Learning AI Threat Actors Are Next.

AI threat actors are right over the horizon.

The link in the headline is a demo of a program that taught itself how to connect with any API, which is pretty cool.

But, it’s also easy to imagine a similar program carrying out a cyber attack that automatically probes networks, conduct advanced social engineering and spear phishing campaigns, and then, rollup all it learned into a highly targeted attack. All customized for your network.

Anyone know of a Good Guy that’s working on this problem?

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Airbyte Gives You The 4 Step Playbook For Outreach

Interviewing customers is a crucial step in figuring out if you’re building the right security tool.

If you don’t have a sizable customer base that you mine, what do you do? You could reach out to your friends, but they can’t be completely counted on to give you an unbiased opinion, or perhaps they don’t quite fit your target customer profile. You could turn to manually searching LinkedIn, but who do you look for?

The fine folks at Airbyte answered these questions, and much more, with an astonishing level of detail. 

It comes down to this extremely compressed list:

1. List your 3 competitors and find their customers

2. Use automated tools to scrape social media for a contact list

3. Create social media campaigns and automate outreach

4. Refine your messaging

Airbyte used these tactics to hit their goal of 10 demos a week. Two demos a day is plenty if you’re a solopreneur, because remember you have prep and reports to write. If you load yourself up with too many demos, you won’t have time for the 73 other spinning plates you have going.

Airbyte gave you the playbook, you just have to implement it.

Additional Money Links 🌶️

• You Need These 6 Sections In Your Investor Reports If You Plan On Raising Money For Your Cybersecurity Startup

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