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IntelGrid is the hub for industry intelligence on MacwanGrid. The live aggregator lives at industry-watch.html — a curated feed that auto-refreshes every six hours, pulling from a short list of sources I read anyway: infrastructure vendors, reputable security research, AI labs, and a small number of independent analysts who consistently beat the news cycle.
The point of this Grid isn't to be a news site. It's to make the signal/noise ratio defensible. Most industry feeds are overwhelmed with press releases, funding announcements, and recycled takes. The selection criteria here lean toward primary sources (CVE advisories, CISA alerts, vendor post-mortems, lab research) and away from secondary commentary unless the commentator has earned it.
Beyond the aggregator, this Grid is where I publish my own commentary when a story is worth calling out — usually because it's being misreported, underweighted, or overhyped. If there's a "take" from me in this Grid, it's because I thought the default framing deserved pushback.
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Reading the Threat Intelligence Landscape
Threat intel has a tier system nobody writes down. Strategic, operational, tactical, technical — most orgs buy the wrong tier.
OSINT for IT Leaders
You don't need a TIP platform to start. Free OSINT sources give you 80% of what costs $100k+ in vendor subscriptions.
Dark Web Intel: What Actually Matters
Most dark-web-monitoring products oversell. Only two classes of findings actually change defender behavior.
Building an Intel-Driven Security Program
Most SOCs claim intel-driven but operate alert-driven. What actually changes when intel drives detection.
Vendor Threat Feeds: What You're Paying For
The $500k feed has 85% overlap with the $10k one. The real value is often elsewhere.
The Five Sources I Read Every Morning
A 20-minute curated read-in beats a 2-hour dashboard crawl. The five sources in my rotation.
Attribution: When It Matters
Attribution is overrated for defenders and underrated for response. Know when to care and when to skip.
Signal vs Noise: The Security News Firehose
There's too much security news. 95% doesn't change what you do tomorrow. Here's how to filter.
Threat Landscape Q1 2026: Patterns
A quarterly practitioner's read on what actually changed.
MITRE ATT&CK for Defenders
ATT&CK is a framework, not a checklist. Most orgs use it like bingo cards. How to use it as a design language.