Where Do You Get Your Cybersecurity News?
A guide for security operations analysts on tracking CISA alerts, zero-days and threat intelligence without handing a third party a log of exactly what you're investigating.
The Problem With Cloud Readers for Security Work
Most RSS and news-aggregator apps are cloud-first: your subscriptions, your saved searches and every keyword you've ever tracked live in a database the vendor operates, tied to your account. For ordinary reading, that's a minor privacy trade-off. For a security analyst, it's a different problem entirely — the searches themselves are intelligence.
If you track a specific threat actor's name, a not-yet-public CVE, or a vendor you suspect is affected by an active campaign, that tracked search sits on someone else's server, subject to their retention policy, their breach history, and — depending on jurisdiction — their legal exposure to a subpoena. You've effectively told a third party what your team is worried about, days or weeks before it's public. That's the quiet cost of a cloud-first reader for anyone doing security research: your search intent leaks by design, not by accident.
Why CISA Alerts Are the Gold Standard
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency publishes some of the most reliably actionable threat intelligence available to the public: cybersecurity advisories written for specific vendors and products, ICS/OT-focused alerts for operational technology environments, and the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — a running list of CVEs CISA has confirmed are being actively exploited in the wild, not just theoretically dangerous. Unlike a vendor's own disclosure, or a security researcher's blog post, a CISA advisory has been vetted by a government body whose entire mandate is accuracy and timeliness for critical infrastructure operators. If you only have time to follow a handful of sources, CISA's advisories and the KEV catalog are the ones with the highest signal-to-noise ratio for "does this actually need action today."
How to Track Threat Intelligence Locally With Feedporter
Feedporter is local-first: your subscriptions and every keyword you track are stored in your own browser, not in an account-linked database. Reading requires no sign-up, and fetching a feed on your behalf doesn't require knowing who's asking. For a security team, that means the fact that you're watching a specific CVE, vendor or threat actor never has to leave your own machine.
Point it straight at CISA
Paste CISA's advisories page into Feedporter's feed finder the same way you would any other site — it checks the page, reads its feed tags, and shows you what it found before you commit. You never have to hunt for a raw XML path by hand.
Layer on the built-in security sections
Feedporter's feed directory includes a curated Security category, including sections specifically scoped to vulnerability disclosures and confirmed attacks, with OT/ICS-focused sources filed in alongside general advisories — install the sections relevant to your environment in one click rather than hand-picking dozens of individual feeds.
Track a CVE, vendor or actor as its own feed
Beyond following sites, Feedporter lets you track a search term the same way you'd follow a feed — a specific CVE id, a vendor name, a named threat actor — scoped to just your security sources if you want to keep the signal tight. New matches file into your sidebar as they're published, with the tracked query itself never leaving your browser.
CVSS context without another tab
When an article mentions a CVE id, Feedporter looks up and displays its CVSS severity directly in the reader, so triaging what's worth your attention doesn't require pivoting to a separate vulnerability database for every headline.