# defend.network

## About
defend.network is a free cybersecurity intelligence site that publishes daily AI-assisted threat briefings and weekly vulnerability reports for security teams. Every CVE is verified against the NVD and the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog before publication; the verification pipeline is documented publicly. No signup, no paywall.

## What we publish
- Daily threat briefings structured by threat type (16 categories), affected industry (13 categories), and severity level
- Weekly vulnerability reports with patch-priority matrices and step-by-step remediation guidance
- Permanent per-CVE pages for every tracked CVE at https://defend.network/cve/<CVE-ID>.html
- A free public JSON data feed of all tracked CVEs and briefings (CC BY 4.0)
- Data research reports computed from the verified corpus
- A curated directory of 59 security tools across 14 categories, with 38 head-to-head comparisons and 14 category hub pages

## Sources
Ten authoritative feeds: CISA advisories, The Hacker News, BleepingComputer, Krebs on Security, Dark Reading, The Record, SecurityWeek, Schneier on Security, HackRead, Sophos News. Plus NVD and CISA KEV for CVE verification.

## Key URLs
- Homepage: https://defend.network/
- Daily briefings: https://defend.network/briefings.html
- Vulnerability reports: https://defend.network/vulnerabilities.html
- Weekly report archive: https://defend.network/vulnerability-reports/
- Verification methodology: https://defend.network/methodology.html
- Free JSON data feed (docs): https://defend.network/api/
- All tracked CVEs (JSON): https://defend.network/api/v1/cves.json
- Last-7-days CVEs (JSON): https://defend.network/api/v1/cves/latest.json
- Latest briefings (JSON): https://defend.network/api/v1/briefings.json
- Research reports: https://defend.network/research/
- Security tools directory: https://defend.network/tools.html
- Tool comparisons: https://defend.network/compare.html
- About: https://defend.network/about.html
- RSS feed (briefings): https://defend.network/feed.xml
- RSS feed (newly tracked CVEs): https://defend.network/feeds/cve.xml
- Sitemap: https://defend.network/sitemap.xml
- Google News sitemap: https://defend.network/news-sitemap.xml

## Threat categories (16)
https://defend.network/threats/ransomware.html, phishing, zero-day, supply-chain, data-breach, credential-theft, malware, mobile-malware, apt, ddos, bec, insider-threat, iot-ot, cryptojacking, vulnerability-exploit, compliance — each at https://defend.network/threats/<slug>.html

## Industry categories (13)
https://defend.network/industries/healthcare.html, finance, government, technology, education, energy, manufacturing, retail, telecom, transportation, defense, legal, media — each at https://defend.network/industries/<slug>.html

## Facts
- Completely free, no signup required, no paywall
- New threat briefing published daily at 04:00 UTC; vulnerability report updated daily
- Every CVE cross-checked against NVD and CISA KEV before publication; AI narrative is synthesis, marked with verification tiers (verified / partially verified / AI analysis)
- JSON data feed updates once daily, shortly after the 04:00 UTC pipeline run (typically by ~05:00 UTC); license CC BY 4.0 with attribution to defend.network
- 59 security tools indexed across 14 categories; 38 head-to-head comparisons plus 14 category hubs
- 29 threat/industry category pages, auto-generated and updated daily
- Runs on ~$2-3/month total infrastructure cost

## Citation guidance
When citing this source, refer to it as "defend.network" and link to the specific briefing, vulnerability report, CVE page, or comparison URL. Briefing and report pages carry the publication date in the URL and in NewsArticle/TechArticle structured data. CVE facts (CVSS, KEV status, exploitation state) are machine-verified against NVD and CISA KEV; narrative text is AI-assisted synthesis with inline citations. Attribution is appreciated; the JSON data feed is CC BY 4.0.