stellersjay's comments

Hey HN community,

I've crafted a "Startup Security Due Diligence Survey" primarily aimed at startups from seed to Series C stages. The intention is to gauge how startups perceive and handle security matters during their early and mid phases.

However, if you're outside this range, either pre-seed or post-Series C, your insights would still be valuable. We believe that gathering a broader perspective can provide more comprehensive results and potential benchmarks for the community. All responses are anonymous, with an optional field for your name and email at the end in case you want to see full results

If you have a few minutes to spare (really short), I'd appreciate your feedback on the survey. https://forms.gle/oiVxqifijpA74sMV6

Thanks for your time and insights!

Monad is hiring!

A little about us. Our mission is to reduce data management problems in the security industry, providing clear insights and guiding action to reduce risk. We are building the first security data cloud platform to make security data easy and accessible for DevOps and cloud engineering.

We thrive on collaboration, teamwork, and a transparent environment of proactive communication and responsiveness. We are a customer-first company, and work closely with our customers to solve all their security data challenges.

Position available:

Backend Engineer Data Analyst Data Architect Data Engineer Integration Engineer Site Reliability Engineer Software Engineer in Test

You can apply here https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/monad for any of the jobs posted above.

Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? Please apply anyway!

I am one of the co-founders and happy to chat if there are any questions.

Remote| hiring across U.S and Canada. | Full time

Positions: Data engineer, backend and full stack devs

Contact: [email protected]

Monad is a seed stage cyber security startup backed by a top tier 1 VC. Our mission is to focus on reducing data management problems in the security industry while laying the foundation for more holistic security features. We empower security teams and engineers to leverage their most critical security data streams to communicate to their peers and business leaders.

My two cents. Missed opportunity for the domain ihatecoordinate.systems

Here is a pretty solid list although bias towards security https://www.sqreen.com/checklists/saas-cto-security-checklis...

Love this this tool, but that price is expensive for hobbyist unless they selling their work or paid for through a company

Remote first | based in Bay Area | hiring across U.S and Canada. | Full time

Positions: Data engineer, backend and full stack devs

Contact: [email protected]

Monad is a seed stage cyber security startup backed by a top tier 1 VC. Our mission is to focus on reducing data management problems in the security industry while laying the foundation for more holistic security features. We empower security teams and engineers to leverage their most critical security data streams to communicate to their peers and business leaders.

I agree. I am still a IDA user myself but dabble with other tools in the field to see what competitive edge they may have to offer. What ever gets the job done :)

I have done a fair bit of reverse engineering to date including malware analysis. Havent read all the comments but of course a safe environment is important. Virtual environments can even be broken out of if you dont know how to debug simple samples that check for disassemblers or debugger presence. I recommend if you want to get some hands on experience checkout https://nostarch.com/malware (Practical Malware analysis) it will prepare you for messing with real life samples. Techniques are still relevant but technology might be different. Eg: IDA is great but Ghirda is the new hotness on the street.

Anyways have fun, good luck and be safe. Most of all happy hacking :)

I prefer something that is more up to date https://nostarch.com/Effective_C

These are definitely some validate starting points. I recommend giving some sort of chronological order to the process. With emphasis on spending quality time up front defining what problem space you are attempting to solve. Once that is defined, you might have a more clear idea about your potential target customer. From there you could actually build better traits about your customer. This process is typically known as building personas. This part of the process is helpful and helps you and your team focus on what are the real themes/problems needing to be solved.

I do agree that reading definitely helps but one book isn't enough. There are several books in this space that are helpful but probably deserve their own thread. Especially around strategy. Maybe worth building out a collective comprehensive recommendations list one day.

Surveys are great but wont capture the true understanding of your customer or the heavy user of what ever product you create. One needs spend some quality time (1hr initially) with these customers so you can build out a better persona which will help you hone and focus on creating the right solution. Then you can use future surveys after gaining trust to get valuable feedback. I do however understand this is a "fill the top of the funnel" approach which isn't bad.

However that said you make some really great points throughout your posting about falling in love with the problem which will allow you to create a great solution.

Exploit devs love a good challenge. Each mitigation is another lessons learned :)

Where are you seeing results for online testing? Seems to be tricky to find as most of the ones I have seen have been cancelled or "no walk-in / call ahead". Also thanks for prompting this and keep ham radio alive :)