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As 5 melhores capinhas para iPhone

Por Wagner Edwards — 22 de Maio de 2023, 14:20

As capinhas para smartphone foram desenvolvidas, inicialmente, para proteger o dispositivo contra arranhões e quedas. Contudo, o mercado percebeu um grande volume de aquisições deste acessório, e novos tipos de cases começaram a conquistar o público, seja pelo tipo de estampa, material utilizado, ou funcionalidade extra. A seguir, confira as cinco melhores capinhas para iPhone.

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1. Capinha com MagSafe

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Reprodução: Amazon

A capinha com MagSafe é a última tendência dos iPhones, considerando que a Apple agora desenvolve dispositivos com carregamento sem fio. Esta capinha possui uma construção específica que permite o carregamento do smartphone sem a necessidade de plugs no painel de controle. Atualmente, é possível encontrar vários modelos com design transparente ou estampado com super-heróis, flores e muito mais.

2. Capinha-carteira

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Reprodução: Amazon

Este modelo é conveniente para quem detesta andar com uma carteira na bolsa. Isso porque não apenas economiza espaço, mas também mantém os cartões sempre por perto do usuário –– o que, em parte, pode aumentar a segurança deles, visto que o usuário sempre estaria com os mesmos. Além disso, também é possível guardar algumas cédulas e demais papéis finos para anotação. O estilo é bastante simples, moderno, e usual.

3. Capinha anti-danos

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Reprodução: Amazon

As capinhas anti-danos, como o próprio nome já entrega, foram pensadas para quem deseja proteger o iPhone a todo custo. As laterais possuem design antiaderente para evitar escorregões da mão, encaixes lateralizados para facilitar a firmeza ao agarrar o smartphone, construção lateral arredonda para proteger a tela, presença de borracha no interior e exterior da case, e muito mais. Apesar de não haver uma case 100% à prova de danos, os modelos com as especificações citadas acima contribuem para evitar danos ao dispositivo e à tela, o que poderia levar à completa inutilização do mesmo.

4. Capinha com proteção de tela

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Reprodução: Amazon

Para os usuários que costumam deixar o telefone cair frequentemente ou que odeiam uma tela trincada, a capinha com proteção de tela possui um mecanismo que protege toda a parte frontal do seu celular. Além disso, enquanto ela estiver “aberta”, ainda pode servir como uma carteira de cartões. O design, ainda, possibilita um apoio dobrável para repousar o iPhone em qualquer superfície lisa, o que deve ser útil para assistir conteúdos com a tela na horizontal.

5. Capinha hiper compatível

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Reprodução: Amazon

Este modelo oferece um encaixe na região traseira com hiper compatibilidade com inúmeros acessórios da marca Peak Design, como tripés, suportes, carregadores e muito mais. Desta forma, você sempre teria um smartphone completamente compatível com uma linha inteira de apetrechos móveis. Algumas opções ainda disponibilizam espaço suficiente para guardar cédulas e cartões.

Com informações: Wirecutter (The New York Times).

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Delta Dental uses Feedly to cut threat intelligence gathering time in half

Por Annie Bacher — 25 de Abril de 2023, 16:20
Case Study
How Delta Dental fills gaps in their vulnerability management process and saves four hours each week.
Impact
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More relevant threat intelligence in half the time

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A complete picture of emerging threats in only 15 minutes

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A streamlined and effective intelligence-gathering process

The short version

The customer: Roger, Senior Security Engineer, Cyber Risk Management Solutions, Delta Dental: Roger monitors vulnerabilities and threats for Delta Dental, the leading dental insurance provider in the US. Every week, he puts together a risk advisory report that goes out to approximately fifty people in the infrastructure and application teams. 

The challenge: spending hours manually monitoring vulnerabilities. Monitoring emerging threats and vulnerabilities used to involve visiting dozens of threat intelligence websites each day. 

The solution: Gathering intelligence in one place with Feedly. The vulnerability management team uses Feedly to gather, prioritize, and manage all of the intelligence on critical vulnerabilities in a single place. 

The results: Better intelligence gathered in half the time. With Feedly, the vulnerability management team at Delta Dental spends 50% less time gathering intelligence and monitoring threats — and the data they gather is more relevant, too. They gather insights from millions of different sources in near real-time, so get the complete picture on emerging threats.

THE CLIENT
A small vulnerability management team

On any given day, Roger has a lot on his plate: he’s in charge of vulnerability management for Delta Dental, the United States’s leading dental insurance provider. His responsibilities include identification, analysis, validation, and remediation of all vulnerability risks. “I run the full gamut of risk management, but specifically pertaining to vulnerabilities,” Roger explains. “It’s my responsibility to make sure that the entire program is running efficiently.” 

Roger tracks vulnerabilities on a daily basis to monitor critical and emergent threats. One of the most important and time-consuming aspects of his job is the weekly risk advisory report he puts together for Delta Dental’s infrastructure and application teams. With the information Roger gathers each week, his colleagues can fix vulnerabilities and update software to keep their entire network secure. The vulnerability management team functions like a managed security service provider (MSSP) for other Delta Dental IT teams. 

“I identify and report vulnerabilities so that other teams can save time and go straight to implementing solutions,” Roger says. 

THE CHALLENGE
Spending hours each week manually researching and tracking vulnerabilities

The vulnerability team’s threat assessment process used to look like this: 

  • Every day, Roger would manually visit multiple threat intel websites. 
  • He’d also work through dozens of more generic sources like news websites, Google, and LinkedIn to track and monitor vulnerabilities that could have serious consequences for his company. 
  • Every day he looked at urgent and emerging threats, and once a week he compiled a report with information for relevant stakeholders. 

The information-gathering process took hours each day. “I was spending at least eight to twelve hours a week researching vulnerabilities that could affect our enterprise. It was quite intensive.”

The vulnerability management team used many different tools for vulnerability management, but they didn’t have an easy solution for risk advisory, which left them spending hours manually gathering threat intelligence. “We needed to make stakeholders aware of the multitude of risks that exist out there. There are millions of risks. And we had no way to demonstrate that to stakeholders without doing intense manual labor on a daily and weekly basis.” 

Staying on top of a large enterprise tech stack 

One of the biggest vulnerabilities that an enterprise like Delta Dental faces is outdated or unsupported application software. Large companies use hundreds of different tools to run smoothly, and in worst-case scenarios, a small bug can take down a whole system. 

“With a tech stack this size, there will be bugs every day. And if we don’t implement the patch or the update, obviously hackers can take advantage of that,” Roger says.

I was spending at least eight to twelve hours a week researching vulnerabilities that could affect our enterprise. It was quite intensive.

THE SOLUTION
Feedly: A risk advisory tool to fill gaps in the vulnerability management process

Now, Roger uses Feedly AI to gather, analyze, and prioritize intelligence from millions of sources in near real-time, so that the vulnerability management team can see it all at once, in one place. Instead of spending hours manually gathering data, Roger can easily find the most up-to-date information on software releases and patches, zero-days, exploit databases, and more.

Monitoring vulnerabilities for products & vendors in their supply chain

Roger takes three main steps to prioritize critical vulnerabilities affecting products and vendors used by Delta Dental: 

  1. He sets up Feedly AI Feeds to track critical vulnerabilities related to specific products and vendors.
  2. He checks Feedly daily to find and research high-priority CVEs that could impact Delta Dental.
  3. He then brings those CVEs into Kenna to help prioritize their remediate and communication strategy with Delta Dental’s stakeholders.

He uses this intelligence to build his weekly report and create recommendations for fixes and patches for the infrastructure and applications teams. 

“With Feedly, I can look at a lot of different sources in a single place: threat intel websites, news wires, social media, things like that, so I have all of the latest information on current threats and technology updates. And I leverage that to populate my reports.”

Spotting critical issues faster

In addition to using Feedly as a risk advisory tool for weekly non-emergency vulnerability reports, Roger uses Feedly daily to spot critical issues and flag them right away. In minutes, he can get a complete picture of an emerging threat from multiple sources, instead of relying on any single report from one company. “When I research an emergent threat, I immediately have the latest and greatest data, because I can look directly at all of the different sources that come into Feedly,” Roger says. 

Having all of this threat intel in one place gives the team better data to work with and more insights into the vulnerability. It makes the research much faster, and even gives them an edge over other cyber security analysts.

The CVE Insights Card for a recent trending vulnerability. The CVE Insights Card is one of the tools in Feedly that the Delta Dental team uses to see the complete picture of an emerging threat.

“I like to see what the hackers are seeing,” Roger explains. “And I like to see what different organizations are saying about this vulnerability, not just the instructions to fix it. I want to understand what the actual impact would be, if we were compromised.”

“When I research an emergent threat, I immediately have the latest and greatest data, because I can look directly at all of the different sources that come into Feedly”

THE RESULTS
More relevant threat intelligence in half the time 

Instead of spending eight to twelve hours putting the risk advisory report together each week, Roger now only needs four or five. By using Feedly for Threat Intelligence, he’s cut the amount of time he spends gathering intelligence about emerging vulnerabilities in half. But perhaps even more importantly, the team can now gather better intelligence with much less effort. 

When a new critical threat emerges, Roger can leverage Feedly to get a complete picture of the threat and its possible repercussions for Delta Dental in as little as fifteen minutes. Without Feedly, gathering that much intelligence could take days. 

Feedly should be a first step for anybody working in vulnerability management.” 

Roger, Senior Security Engineer, Cyber Risk Management Solutions, Delta Dental

This served the team well when several critical threats first emerged, including the Windows Printer Spooler vulnerability and POLINA ransomware. “Instead of just going to Microsoft or visiting a single resource, I was able to use Feedly to research it and gather the latest and greatest data from lots of different sources,” Roger says. “By leveraging Feedly, we were able to get a really complete picture from all of these different perspectives.”

Today, when it comes to investigating vulnerabilities, Roger’s first step is always to check Feedly. It’s become an indispensable tool in his cybersecurity arsenal.

“My process is always Feedly first, and then I go to our intel tool second,” Roger says. “Feedly should be a first step for anybody working in vulnerability management.” 

Fill the gaps in your risk advisory process

Feedly for Threat Intelligence can help you gather intelligence and monitor emerging threats in near real-time.

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The Lufthansa Innovation Hub is using Feedly to define the future of strategic intelligence

Por Annie Bacher — 6 de Setembro de 2022, 15:13
Case Study
Find out how Lufthansa Innovation Hub defines and interprets new macro-trends in travel and mobility tech

The short version

The customer: Tino Klaehne, Director of Strategic Innovation and Intelligence, Lufthansa Innovation Hub. Lufthansa Innovation Hub is “reinventing the travel of tomorrow.” Tino and his team are on a mission to lead the way for how strategic intelligence is done in the travel industry.

The challenge: No process for strategic intelligence. Gathering research used to involve sporadically visiting Google and searching by keywords. LIH needed a systematized way to gather, analyze, and prioritize intelligence in one place. 

The solution: Spotting trends faster with a Feedly AI. LIH integrated Feedly AI into their tech stack to track macro trends and define trends inside the category of Travel and mobility tech. They use Feedly’s AI Models to build their own intelligence engine based on their own definitions and categories at the forefront of travel innovation.

The results: An industry-leading process 

  • An industry-leading process that is 3-5X faster than traditional strategic intelligence gathering
  • Regularly-publishes trend reports in the TNMT newsletter with 10,000+ subscribers
  • 5+ former employees have introduced Feedly to their new companies

Start building your strategic intelligence process. Try Feedly for Market Intelligence to track emerging trends, monitor competitors, identify business opportunities, and share insights with your organization.

Spotting trends almost before they happen

Lufthansa Innovation Hub has used Feedly to become thought leaders in their industry. With the help of Feedly AI, they have defined a new research category at the intersection of travel and mobility technology, spotting trends and shifts in the industry almost before they happen. Read more about how they did it in this case study:

THE CUSTOMER
Lufthansa Innovation Hub: “reinventing the travel of tomorrow”

With only 40 team members in a company of more than 100,000 people worldwide, the Lufthansa Innovation Hub (LIH) is a small part of the larger Lufthansa Group — but they’ve never let that stop them from having a big impact on reinventing the future of travel. Tino Klaehne, LIH’s Director of Strategic Innovation and Intelligence, explains, “We have a thought leadership strategy. We have our own newsletter and our own platform, TNMT. Our branding is neon green. We make noise.” 

The TNMT newsletter reaches over 10,000 internal and external subscribers, and the entire innovation team is dedicated to setting the standard for cutting-edge, data-driven strategic research.

Our mantra is unconventional data perspectives. Our analysts use all sorts of different data perspectives to track information from thousands of sources. We don’t produce generic desk research–we create high-quality content with a data-driven perspective.”

Tino Klaehne, Director of Strategic Innovation and Intelligence, Lufthansa Innovation Hub

THE CHALLENGE
Building a systematic approach to strategic intelligence

When Tino Klaehne first started working at the Lufthansa Innovation Hub (LIH) in 2017, things looked very different than they do today. The team was still in the early stages of developing their research processes, and their approach was ineffective and time-consuming. 

There was no easy way to store or collect interesting findings in a central location. They needed to develop a more systemic approach to strategic intelligence gathering, so they could scan the horizon and connect the dots more effectively. 

“At the time, our approach to research was really immature. People would Google a few keywords or visit a couple of websites when they had time here and there. Nothing was tracked,” Tino recalls. 

LIH needed an effective way to gather, analyze, and prioritize intelligence from millions of different sources into a single feed. They also needed a system to get alerted when key topics came up, without drowning in the noise of irrelevant data. “We wanted to really professionalize our approach. And we needed to find the right tools for the job.” 

We wanted to really professionalize our approach. And we needed to find the right tools for the job.”

Tino Klaehne, Director of Strategic Innovation and Intelligence, Lufthansa Innovation Hub

THE SOLUTION
Using Feedly AI to research and define the future of their market: Travel and Mobility Tech

LIH was able to go one step further than just professionalizing their intelligence-gathering: They have defined their arena at the intersection of travel, mobility, and tech (TNMT).

TNMT brings together traditionally-siloed interests that cover the entire ecosystem of products and services around the travel experience, from accommodation to space travel. 

By adopting Feedly AI to discover and research new market opportunities, LIH gathers and synthesizes intelligence that covers this entire category. They can shape, test, and validate hypotheses that will define the future of travel. 

“It’s strategically powerful to be able to define our own category and be the leaders in what we’re doing. And that’s where Feedly comes in. It allows us to create our own definitions and categories, beyond standard industry definitions. We can build everything around this TNMT model and see what we find there.” 

“Blurred Travel” and other future trends

When Tino and his team identify a new “fuzzy concept” or broader trend that they want to research and define, they set up a new Feedly Board on the topic and add relevant articles from other boards. From there, one of their analysts will define which keywords to track. They will build an AI Feed and gradually refine it, adding models and muting terms to filter out the noise. 

An AI Feed that Tino and his team have created to track the “fuzzy concept” of Blurred Travel, combining existing AI Models like “Bleisure travel”, “Remote work”, and the “Travel & Hospitality Industry”.

For example, LIH has coined the model of “Blurred Travel,” a shift they’re seeing as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, where business and leisure travel are increasingly merging. “It’s really hard to search for a term if you’re the one coining it,” Tino says. “To validate our hypotheses, we try to put different AI models together and look at what is coming through Feedly to see what is happening out there.”

An excerpt about Blurred Travel from a recent issue of LIH’s TNMT newsletter.

Tracking innovation via venture capital investments 

LIH also uses AI Feeds in Feedly to track venture capital investments in travel and mobility tech in order to predict how the industry will evolve. “Venture capital investments are one of our key metrics to determine innovation patterns,” Tino explains. “We want to know where smart people are putting a lot of money, and to understand why it’s happening. It’s a really good proxy indicator for us.” LIH publishes the only regular report with in-depth research on this topic. 

“Venture capital investments are one of our key metrics to determine innovation patterns. We want to know where smart people are putting a lot of money, and to understand why it’s happening. It’s a really good proxy indicator for us”

They also track over 3,000 startups to keep an eye out for investment and partnership opportunities with startups in related industries, like sustainable fuel, air taxis, and the creator economy.

LIH tracks funding events in the travel industry, because they tend to be an indicator of innovation patterns. Here, they’ve set up an AI Feed in Feedly so it will surface articles around these AI models. 

Integrating Feedly into their processes and tech stack

Part of what makes Feedly so effective for LIH is the way the team has been able to deeply integrate Feedly into their processes and the rest of their tech stack. 

Tino and the LIH team use AI Models, a collection of machine learning models that continuously read millions of articles to analyze and tag key concepts in real-time. For example, they employ the Partnerships and Funding AI Models to keep a close eye on partnerships that other airlines are forming with startups. This gives them a clearer sense of the direction their industry is heading and what other companies are prioritizing. 

LIH also uses Feedly as the jumping off point for kickstart new projects: Employees combine AI Models in AI Feeds, which track and find relevant content continuously. Through the AI Feeds they’ve set up, the team finds useful content and regularly adds it to Boards. 

When a new project starts, employees search those Boards to see what’s been gathered on the topic and what information is already out there, curated by their team in Feedly. They’ll then create a new Board and connect it to the Slack channel for that project to keep all relevant research in one place. 

Company onboarding at LIH even includes a Feedly tutorial. That’s how deeply we want Feedly to be embedded in our processes says Tino.

THE RESULTS
Faster, more insightful research that looks toward the future

Over the years, LIH’s reputation has grown. Their Travel & Mobility Tech newsletter, TNMT, now has over 10,000 subscribers, including both internal stakeholders and thousands of readers outside the company who rely on LIH’s analysis and research. Without Feedly, Tino estimates that intelligence gathering would take at least 3-5x longer, and wouldn’t be nearly as effective.

A recent issue of the TNMT newsletter, highlighting LIH’s research and analysis around investments into air-taxi startups.

Tino’s team is currently starting to build workflows that will make it easier for more teams to set up Feedly and other research tools to gather their own data independently. “We believe this has the potential to become a strategic intelligence layer for the entire Lufthansa Group, built around Feedly and a few other key tools,” Tino says. 

Feedly at the heart of their toolbox

LIH’s confidence in Feedly continues to grow, and they anticipate it continuing far into the future. They recently signed a three-year contract with Feedly so LIH can continue to build their future-focused processes with Feedly AI.

Even after analysts leave LIH, they continue to choose Feedly, Tino says. Feedly is such an integral part of the strategic intelligence tech stack that at least five former LIH employees have brought Feedly with them to new jobs. 

“Feedly is the core of our toolbox. We appreciate the close collaboration we have, and we really like the improvements and new features they are releasing. We feel like we’re progressing at the same time, together.” 

Start building your strategic intelligence process

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How DB Schenker used Feedly to create an “innovation hub” to detect new business opportunities

Por Annie Bacher — 16 de Junho de 2022, 13:00
Case Study
This leading logistics provider scans the horizon to identify trends and opportunities in real time
Impact
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Disseminate 18+ newsletters with over 2,000 internal newsletter subscriptions

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Surface the latest trends, emerging technologies and competitors

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Stay on top of customers’ latest logistics investments through targeted intelligence

A small innovation team with a huge impact across the company

DB Schenker’s innovation team used Feedly to create an innovation, trend, and opportunity hub, which they use to analyze and distribute content out to the wider departments that need to gather intelligence, monitor trends, and spot emerging technologies as they evolve. Read about how they did it in this case study.

THE CUSTOMER
DB Schenker, global leading logistics provider

Jacek Pucher is a Global Innovation Manager for DB Schenker, one of the world’s leading logistics providers of land, air, and ocean freight. Jacek helps his company stay up-to-date on the latest developments in logistics – whether that’s by keeping an eye on the competition, identifying new business opportunities, or tracking innovations in the market. 

THE CHALLENGE
Finding an efficient system to scan the horizon for emerging trends and business opportunities

Back in the beginning of 2020, the Global Innovation team didn’t have any tools to help them sift through the flood of information that’s published online every day. 

Monitoring trends and opportunities manually was impossible and impractical. DB Schenker is a global company, and they need to be up-to-date on competitor strategies, events, trends, and what their customers are up to in different markets around the world. 

But if they wanted to continue to be successful in a competitive market, they needed to find a way to scan the horizon efficiently. “Companies operate in an uncertain world,” Jacek explains. “To be able to tackle these uncertainties, you need to be constantly monitoring what is happening around you.” 

THE SOLUTION
Using Feedly AI to build a hub to monitor innovations, trends, competitors, and opportunities

When Jacek first began pitching Feedly to internal stakeholders, his team was quickly overwhelmed with requests for their own newsletters with real-time information.

“Almost right away, we had many colleagues who were interested and asked us to create newsletters for them,” Jacek recalls. “It started scaling quickly, and very soon it got to the point where our Feedly-dedicated team of two wouldn’t be able to do the monitoring for the whole company.” 

So instead, Jacek created an internal scaling model that uses Feedly AI to feed DB Schenker’s innovation, trend, competitor, and opportunity hub and triage intelligence out to the wider company. 

Here’s how he did it:

1. Set up Feedly AI to surface the right information

Feedly AI uses a collection of machine learning models to continuously read millions of articles to analyze and tag key concepts in real time. It’s like having an extremely eager research assistant – with a million times the computing power. 

Jacek set up AI Feeds, AI-powered searches across the web, to track logistics innovations for new developments. He also used Feedly AI’s pre-trained Tech & Scientific Innovation Model to get immediate updates on emerging trends and new technologies.  

Jacek also set up AI Feeds for the sales teams for DB Schenker’s different business units to help them identify business opportunities. The AI Feeds focused on topics like the supply chain industry, supply chain last mile deliveries, land transport, ocean freight, and warehousing. “It was so simple,” he says. 

Jacek created this “Logistics Innovation” AI Feed to track innovation in the areas his company cares about the most.

2. Curated newsletters disseminate valuable market intelligence information across the company

Once Jacek had Feedly AI set up to surface relevant information, he turned on Team Newsletters. The innovation team curates articles by saving them to a Board in Feedly, and then the newsletters are regularly sent to a predefined list of emails from Boards. 

When Jacek and the innovation team save articles to specific Feedly Boards, weekly newsletters are sent to subscribers throughout the company. Boards can also kick off a series of other workflows, like pushing content to an innovation portal.

Then, he pitched the tool’s market intelligence applications to teams across the company to help other teams set up their own newsletters, based on their intelligence needs. 

The innovation team’s first internal customer had a very specific goal in mind: they wanted to use Feedly to stay on top of their customers’ latest investments. “If our customers build a warehouse or a production facility, they are going to need logistics services soon,” Jacek explains. “If we know about that earlier, our sales team can approach our customers to offer our services.”

From there, interest grew quickly, and multiple teams approached Jacek to set up their own newsletters. Pretty soon, Jacek had used Feedly AI to set up 18 different newsletters for teams across the company. 

3. The innovation team creates a scalable framework for surfacing trends   

Now, when a team approaches Jacek to help them gather market intelligence, the process is simple: 

  1. Jacek asks the department what keywords and concepts they would like to track. 
  2. Then, he creates the AI Feeds for them and asks for feedback.
  3. Together, they refine their AI Feeds to improve the signal-to-noise ratio, so they only receive what’s most relevant to them. 
  4. Finally, he trains a team “Feedly editor,” who becomes the owner of the department’s market intelligence – and Jacek is free to go help the next team who wants to gather market intelligence. 

Jacek says, “I assist them in the first few weeks, and I help them publish the first newsletter. After that I hand over the reins and that person becomes responsible for intelligence gathering for their team. They can do their own thing.”

“If our customers build a warehouse or a production facility, they are going to need logistics services soon. If we know about that earlier, our sales team can approach our customers to offer our services.”

THE RESULTS
A small innovation team with a huge impact across the company

DB Schenker now has an innovation, trend, and opportunity hub, which they use to analyze and distribute content to the wider departments that need to gather intelligence, monitor trends, and spot emerging technologies as they evolve. 

Over 2,000 active newsletter subscriptions

So far, the 18 newsletters have over 2,000 subscriptions, with many employees signing up to more than one. Every new employee gets the option to sign up for Feedly newsletters during their onboarding as well. “I get lots of positive feedback,” Jacek says. “People really value these newsletters and the insights they provide.” 

The “innovation hub” that the team built with Feedly has been so successful that Jacek gathered internal feedback and wrote an internal success story about the initiative.

Jacek gathered feedback from employees across the company and wrote this internal article (shared here with permission from DB Schenker) to illustrate the success of their innovation hub with Feedly.

A collaborative network to break down information silos 

Setting up Feedly as a hub for market intelligence has created an unexpected benefit for the Global Innovation Team, as well: Jacek now has a network of people across the company who can collaborate and lean on each other as resources. He credits the success of this “innovation hub” to the broader team of “Feedly editors” who scan, analyze, and distribute newsletters through Feedly every week for the sales teams within each business unit. 

Jacek reflects on what the Global Innovation team has been able to achieve since starting to use Feedly: “Strategic foresight and scenario building are the innovation tools of the future. And you cannot build scenarios if you don’t know what is happening and what has happened. That’s the big opportunity that Feedly creates for us.”

“Strategic foresight and scenario building are the innovation tools of the future. And you cannot build scenarios if you don’t know what is happening and what has happened. That’s the big opportunity that Feedly creates for us.”

Start building your own innovation hub

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Brenthaven Edge Companion for iPad Air

Por Kathy Schrock — 2 de Março de 2022, 00:23


Photo courtesy of Sean MacEntee  https://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/6972691660


With the plethora of iPads found on student desks, in classroom carts and in backpacks, it is more important than ever to protect the devices from harm. iPads with attached keyboards have become a popular combinations for students, and I want to introduce you to a cool new case that was created especially for that combo!

The Brenthaven Edge Companion for the iPad Air (10.9", 4th generation), has just been released. I own this particular iPad and was happy to receive one to review!

I have been reviewing items from Brenthaven for years. Most recently, in 2019, I penned a blog post titled I Love Brenthaven. I talked about Brenthaven's well-made and thought-out cases and accessories targeted for the education market. And they have been keeping up with all the change in device use in schools! Brenthaven has iPad cases, MacBook cases, Chromebook cases, sleeves and backpacks, headphones, and keyboards. The listing of all their protective gear and bags may be found here.

The Brenthaven Edge Companion for the iPad Air (10.9", 4th generation) that I tried out is so easy to put on the iPad. It provides tons of protection and has been made so it works perfectly with the Apple Smart Keyboard Folio. It also still protects the iPad Air without having the Apple Smart Keyboard Folio attached.




You can see below, when the iPad is installed in the Brenthaven Edge Companion for the iPad Air, access to all the ports and buttons on the iPad are accessible and protected.




You first put the iPad in the "frame" of the Brenthaven Edge Companion for the iPad Air and then, if you want, you can install the keyboard. 

Take a look at this short video which demonstrates the process.



Here is a photo of my iPad Air (4th gen) installed in the  Brenthaven Edge Companion for the iPad Air from the front and from the rear. The addition of the case makes the iPad and keyboard components feel much sturdier.





I took three photos to show how easy it is to add the Apple Smart Keyboard Folio to the Brenthaven Edge Companion for the iPad Air.


Turn the iPad over and open the plastic door on the left.




Then fold the folio cover into the back of the 



Simply snap down the plastic door and the keyboard is attached!


The Brenthaven Edge Companion for the iPad Air (10.9", 4th gen) has a ton of features. Here are just a few.
  • There is a built in Apple Pencil 2 holder which allows for charging.
  • One edge of the case is left open so it connects with the keyboard for typing when in "kockstand" mode.
  • The back components of the Brenthaven Edge Companion for the iPad Air allow asset tags or stickers to be attached and can be seen through the flaps.
  • The corners of the Brenthaven Edge Companion for the iPad Air protect the edges of the iPad.

The full spec sheet may be found here.

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How Church & Dwight’s CISO used Feedly to track log4j in real time

Por Annie Bacher — 15 de Fevereiro de 2022, 17:43
Case Study
Get an inside look at how a CISO gathers threat intelligence to track a developing incident.
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Picked up on trending vulnerabilities in Feedly before they were rated

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Saved an hour each day with streamlined intelligence workflow

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Consolidated the team’s research workflow, improved effectiveness, and reduced overwhelm

David Ortiz is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Church & Dwight, the company behind brands like ARM & HAMMER, Trojan, OxiClean, OraJel, and other products. As CISO, David’s primary focus is to oversee cybersecurity, IT Risk Management, data privacy operations, and manage risk to the company so he can keep leadership informed. 

Unlike a threat intelligence analyst looking at the day-to-day intel and mitigation, David is concerned with the big-picture impact of cybersecurity on the business. “We don’t want to talk too much about the widgets and the tech, we want to talk more about the impact to the overall business.”

On a “typical” day: David’s daily news progression for effective threat intelligence

Every day, David looks out for indicators that there may have been a critical cyber attack somewhere in Church & Dwight’s supply chain. With that information, he can inform leadership of the business implications. Church & Dwight has a large provider network including contract manufacturers, manufacturers, vendors. The company needs to keep track of what’s happening across the entire supply chain to protect the business at all levels. 

To stay in front of the news, David goes through a systematic news progression every morning before his team’s 9am scrum. He works his way through sources including: 

  • Cybersecurity-specific news sources like WSJ Pro Cybersecurity Cyber Security Hub
  • Twitter, Reddit, and LinkedIn
  • National newspapers and news sources like the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and 1440
  • Wikipedia 
The “Today” page in Feedly, where David starts his news progression each morning.

Before using Feedly, he had to visit each one of these sites individually. Now, he says “It is a single place for my news progression. I can go through Feedly and see everything.” Instead of fielding emails from different sources, David gets his newsletters delivered to Feedly as well.

Feedly has saved me an hour a day. It is a single place for my news progression. I can go through Feedly and see everything”

David Ortiz, CISO, Church & Dwight

How David used Feedly to monitor the log4j vulnerabilities

The week that the log4j vulnerability broke in December 2021, David’s news progression looked a little different than on a normal day. 

“When I woke up on Friday morning, our managed security provider had already sent out advisories at 4am East Coast time. I saw that, and I had already gone into Feedly and started reading news and seen it breaking. We knew log4j was coming and used breaking news in conjunction with our vulnerability response activities.”

The Threat Intelligence Dashboard in Feedly shows trending articles, trending vulnerabilities, and trending attackers. Cybersecurity professionals like David use this page for a quick glance at what’s happening if they only have a few minutes to check Feedly.

By the Saturday after the vulnerability broke, news started flooding in. David remembers, “I was looking for critical vulnerabilities and CVSS scores. That’s when Feedly started working its magic: We started to see the news propagate and get organized by Leo.” 

I was looking for critical vulnerabilities and CVSS scores. That’s when Feedly started working its magic: We started to see the news propagate and get organized by Leo”

David can see trending vulnerabilities before CVSS scores are assigned

Even before a CVSS score is assigned to a vulnerability, Leo estimates a score based on the machine learning models we use to prioritize CVEs. And as the story developed and it became clear that log4j was really four distinct vulnerabilities, Feedly helped show that they were trending. David explains, “When the other vulnerabilities were still at a low level — not yet elevated to a critical or high level — Feedly was telling me it was trending, which meant more people were talking about this and more articles were being published about it.” 

When the other vulnerabilities were still at a low level – not yet elevated to a critical or high level — Feedly was telling me it was trending.”

David Ortiz, CISO, Church & Dwight

David was watching both Feedly and the National Vulnerability Database news to see if one specific vulnerability was going to trend and become a critical vulnerability. If it was identified as a critical vulnerability, that would dictate how Church & Dwight security teams respond to the vulnerability.

If no CVSS score has been assigned to a specific CVE, Leo estimates a score based on the machine learning models we use to track CVEs.

David adds, “Feedly helped me follow the vulnerabilities that weren’t yet rated. By looking at the trending vulnerabilities and estimated CVSS scores in Feedly, I could estimate that they would eventually get assigned a high or critical rating, which they did.”

Why this CISO uses Feedly to centralize and optimize his team’s open source threat intelligence

David chose Feedly as his team’s open source threat intelligence tool for three main reasons: 

  1. He wanted a centralized place to reduce information overload for his team 
  2. He wanted a place where his team can share common data and benefit from shared knowledge
  3. He wanted to get in front of the news

1. A centralized place to reduce information overload and notification fatigue

David’s extremely conscious of the impact of information overload on his team, and designed his Feedly setup with that in mind. “Feedly is a common area to share data so that we’re not fatiguing one another with more news and more notifications.” 

David strategically set up two main Team Newsletters to send automatically and summarize news, instead of sending one-off texts and Slack messages that would distract his team. 

  • One weekly newsletter that sends every Friday and includes any articles David and the team saved to a Feedly Board that week 
  • One “breaking” newsletter that sends automatically — but only when there’s what the team considers breaking news
David and the team save relevant articles to a Team Board, which sends a Newsletter automatically each week.

2. A place to share common data and avoid duplicate work

Instead of everyone on his team having separate, siloed security sources, David and his team use Feedly as the common area to share those trusted sources of data. This means everyone’s on the same page about threat intelligence and risk management, and the whole team benefits from having multiple smart cybersecurity minds working together. 

3. A way to get in front of the news

Before adopting Feedly as his open source threat intelligence tool, David used to complete his daily “news progression” every day across various different sources. But now, he’s able to consolidate his intelligence in one place and streamline the process.

Beyond the feeds he organizes in Feedly, David checks the Threat Intelligence Dashboard daily. “It brings me information that I don’t have to go get on my own. Instead of having to manually trend or use other sources to trend, Feedly’s trending that for us.” David estimates that Feedly has saved him an hour each day, which means he can make more progress on Church & Dwight’s security roadmap and projects for risk reduction. 

What’s next for this CISO  

When there’s not a critical vulnerability front and center, David focuses on projects on the company’s security roadmap, including risk reduction and safeguarding data. “Feedly helps me stay in front of the news so I can help keep the company safe.”

And what’s next for David’s work with Feedly? David continues to work with his team in the process of gathering open source threat intelligence . He’s looking forward to the upcoming Customizable Newsletters feature (coming soon!) that will make it even easier to send advisories and customize them with internal knowledge.

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How Airbus CyberSecurity gets actionable cyber threat intelligence to customers in minutes

Por Annie Bacher — 3 de Novembro de 2021, 14:43
Case Study
An inside look at how the Airbus CyberSecurity team is using Feedly to monitor and share actionable insights
Impact
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A cohesive, streamlined workflow for threat intelligence that saves hours every week

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Increased customer satisfaction due to improved speed of intelligence

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Real-time sharing makes it easy to instantly alert customers and collaborators

THE CHALLENGE
“The process used to be way too time consuming and manual”

Chris Pickard, Cyber Threat Intelligence, and Adam Thomas, Vulnerability Analyst, lead the cyber threat intelligence (CTI) team at Airbus CyberSecurity in the UK. The team has since grown significantly, but just a few years ago they were a small team with painfully manual processes for gathering threat intelligence. 

Chris remembers, “We had our favorite sites that we would go to stay on top of the latest trends and to monitor newly released vulnerabilities. It was a more time consuming process compared to how we do things now, and on reflection, it was less structured ” He adds, “We’d have all sorts of set places we would go to to get the news and to get the latest vulnerabilities. It worked but it could sometimes be a frustrating process.”  

Before the CTI team enhanced their news gathering and vulnerability monitoring capability with Feedly, they collected information individually. The process is now much more collaborative, with each member of the team having access to and visibility of the Feedly platform. He adds, “We wanted a way of getting news to our customers much more quickly and to work together in a more streamlined way.”

Like many current Feedly for Cybersecurity teams, Chris had been using Feedly for personal use in the past. Once he and Adam discovered Feedly’s cybersecurity-specific features, they felt like they had found a cheat code for finding what matters and getting it to the right people, faster. 

“We wanted a way of getting news to our customers more quickly and to work together in a more streamlined way.”

Chris Pickard, Cyber Threat Intelligence

Immediate impact from the proof of concept

Chris and Adam still needed to convince upper management to adopt Feedly for Cybersecurity. Chris says, “One of the obstacles we faced was to convince management of the benefits that Feedly would provide. From a management perspective they were already aware that the team were doing a good job, but the challenge we faced was to demonstrate the improvements Feedly would bring to the table”

After a few months of switching the manual process to a more streamlined intelligence workflow with a trial of Feedly for Cybersecurity, “It reached the point where our customers were giving  positive feedback about how we were able to respond to the latest trends, while also keeping them informed of the news and our response to it. The efficiency of the new workflow really helped us promote Feedly within Airbus.” Internal management teams, other security teams, and their external  customers noticed and appreciated the increased speed in which they were receiving threat intelligence. 

It reached the point where our customers were giving positive feedback about how we were able to respond to the latest trends, while also keeping them informed of the news and our response to it. The efficiency of the new workflow really helped us promote Feedly within Airbus.

Chris Pickard, Cyber Threat Intelligence

Adam adds “The feedback that we received from the customers has already proven that Feedly was worth the investment.” He adds, “Once the customer reviews started backing up what we’d been saying all along, then there was no decision to be made, to be honest. It was easy to convince management to adopt Feedly from then on.” 

THE SOLUTION
Increasing speed of intelligence with a streamlined OSINT process

At Feedly, we use Airbus CyberSecurity’s workflow as a model to teach other security teams to set up efficient, collaborative intelligence gathering processes using our platform. This is how they get actionable cybersecurity intelligence to their customers in a matter of minutes.

1. Asking Feedly aI to track customer assets and products

Chris and Adam ask Feedly AI to track anything related to critical vulnerabilities affecting them and their customers’ assets and products across the web (not just in the sources they follow in Feedly). They can then add the results of these AI Feeds to their Feedly account.

Then, using a portfolio of security sources they trust, Chris and Adam asked Feedly AI to prioritize anything related to their customers, including customer assets and products. With Priorities, Feedly AI reads all incoming information and surfaces the most relevant content, based on the specific parameters Chris and Adam set up. According to Chris, “We know that anything that’s triggering the Priorities is something we need to focus on. Instead of us having to hunt for actionable intelligence from different sources, we can just have a glance at the Priorities and go from there.”

Chris and Adam asked Feedly AI to prioritize news about high vulnerabilities related to their customers and products they use

2. Immediately viewing and sharing CVSS scores and trending vulnerabilities

With Feedly for Cybersecurity, Chris and Adam can see the CVSS score directly in their Feeds, which gives them more tools to share with customers. They can click into a CVE Card, to access all the information related to the CVE, access the severity of a vulnerability, and determine if it should be escalated to their team for further research without zig zagging across different tabs. If not provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), Feedly AI will estimate the CVSS score and CWE attack type for each vulnerability. 

“We can just look at Feedly AI’s prioritization and see what needs to be taken care of first,” says Chris. “It’s really helpful to see the top attackers and go from there.”

3. Instantly sharing articles with external email addresses

If they find a critical vulnerability about a customer’s supply chain, for example, Chris and Adam’s team need an easy and fast way to get it to the people who need to know.

The team initially had a solid workflow set up, and with a few tips from Remi on the Feedly customer success team, they made it even more streamlined. Remi says “The Airbus CyberSecurity team had developed a clever workaround with IFTTT to send articles to a list of six external customers.” But there was room for improvement, so “during one success session, we were able to tweak it a bit to send polished emails directly from the Feedly interface, without using a third-party tool as a workaround.”

Instead of connecting Feedly to email with an IFTTT integration in the middle, Remi showed Chris and Adam how they could actually send parts of an article directly to external email addresses using Notes.  

The Airbus CyberSecurity CTI team sends articles instantly from Feedly to external recipients via email, by tagging them in the Notes

4. Curating relevant content daily for each customer for instant, organized communication

To organize information to share with customers, Chris and Adam created one Team Board per customer. Team Boards are shared spaces to save articles, and can trigger other automations, like the Slack integration or an email. If Chris saves an article to a customer’s Board, it can immediately trigger a Slack message or an email notification to the customer. “I used to have to summarize gathered intelligence in an email and send it to customers. Now ​​I can just attach relevant information to a Board and I can send it instantly to the people that need it.”

In Team Board > Sharing Settings, the team turns on Slack notifications and choose which Slack channel receives a notification when they save an article to that Board.

Notifications from Boards can be sent to anyone via email, whether or not they have a Feedly account. Chris and Adam send articles to analysts, CTO teams, or even the CEO. “Everyone sees these notifications straight away, and it’s just a really good way of getting it to them quicker.”

5. Sending proactive briefings via automated daily and weekly Newsletters

Apart from ad hoc alerts when relevant issues come up for customers, Chris and Adam also send out daily and weekly newsletters on topics of interest. They add any articles that customers might find interesting to a dedicated Board. They’ve configured the Board to automatically send a Newsletter, which is an automated roundup of recently added articles that can be sent at regular intervals.

Instead of copying and pasting multiple articles into a weekly email, Chris and Adam automate their weekly roundups to send directly as Newsletters from their assorted Boards.

THE RESULTS
A fast, streamlined OSINT workflow that leaves time for analysis

The most noticeable impact of using Feedly? The stellar feedback the CTI team has received from both internal and external customers. Chris says, “Customers really love the speed that we are able to quickly get the news to them. As soon as something hits the news, like a critical vulnerability that affects them, we can notify them within minutes.”

Sending out regular news roundups is much easier, too. Chris says, “Team Newsletters have made the biggest difference for me because it’s saved so much time.”

The firehose of information is quickly reduced to only what’s relevant

By asking Feedly AI to track their customers’ assets and products both across the web and within their trusted security sources, Chris and Adam can feel confident they’re not missing anything, but they can also make sure they’re not wasting time on irrelevant news. 

“I was amazed by the sheer amount of information Feedly brings in, and then how quickly that’s cut down to what’s relevant, I’ve not used a tool that has the same level of impact.”

“I was amazed by the sheer amount of information Feedly brings in, and then how quickly that’s cut down to what’s relevant, I’ve not used a tool that has the same level of impact.”

Adam Thomas, Vulnerability Analyst

Improved communication and cohesion makes the job easier

The process is now much more collaborative, with each member of the team having access to and visibility of the Feedly platform, which avoids duplicate work. And avoiding duplicate work is like having an extra person on the team. Chris says, “The time saved has enabled us to put more resources into threat hunting, vulnerability research, and improving existing processes.”

Working together in a more cohesive way also gives the team the confidence that they’re collectively catching everything they need. Adam adds, “We know that once we put parameters into Feedly, it’s definitely doing its job and is capturing everything we need it to. And we’re not missing anything.”

“We know that once we put parameters into Feedly, it’s definitely doing its job and is capturing everything we need it to. And we’re not missing anything.

Adam Thomas, Vulnerability Analyst

Chris (left) and Adam (right) of Airbus CyberSecurity

What’s next: even more automation and indicators of compromise

When it comes to threat intelligence with Feedly, the Airbus CyberSecurity CTI team is only just getting started. What’s next? Adding even more automation. Chris and Adam are looking to leverage Feedly’s API so they can integrate their intelligence gathering workflow with tools they’re already using, like MISP. 

They’re also participating in the beta program of Feedly’s Indicators of Compromise feature, so they can quickly discover and collect malicious IoCs from security news sources, Twitter, and Reddit, and then easily export IoCs with context. 

Stay tuned, the Airbus CyberSecurity CTI team is leading the way for efficient, collaborative, and effective threat intelligence. 

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How a top 10 pharma company tracks drug innovations and more with Feedly

Por Annie Bacher — 19 de Outubro de 2021, 09:07
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This medical librarian team monitors diseases, drug pricing, innovations, and major political decisions affecting healthcare
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Curating relevant content for newsletters to inform recipients across the company

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Spending less than 1 hour daily on Feedly to select relevant insights

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Discovering and organizing open-source biopharma news in one place

This Feedly for Biopharma client has graciously allowed us to share their story on the condition of anonymity. Client names have been changed.

THE CHALLENGE
Discovering and organizing open-source biopharma research in one place

Sienna is a Knowledge and Insights Advisor at a top 10 pharmaceutical company in Australia. Sienna and her team are responsible for two main tasks: responding to specific, timely questions from doctors or researchers across the company, and proactively keeping employees up-to-date on industry developments or innovations. 

Responding to specific, timely questions 

Doctors and researchers might ask Sienna’s team whether a particular drug was ever linked to an adverse event, like “Has amoxycillin ever caused encephalitis?” Or they might answer questions about new drug delivery platforms, like “How do you get our large molecule drug inside the cell so that it can actually get to the target, where it will do the work of curing the disease?” For questions like these, Sienna and her team seek information to compile resource lists or reports. 

Sending out regular briefings to keep everyone informed

The second part of the job is proactively keeping people across the company up to date on drug developments, political decisions, and any other industry developments or innovations. Sienna and her team send out 50 different newsletters about relevant biopharma news every week to 765 recipients, plus a daily COVID newsletter: “We try to keep people informed of the most interesting published research in their areas.” 

Struggling to gather intelligence on broad topics 

For certain queries, Sienna and her team get their information from published literature in research journals, like PubMed.  However, Sienna remembers how tricky things got when her team started getting requests for information about broader topics like drug innovations, regulatory decisions, political decisions, or industry updates. “Rather than being about a specific disease, we started getting asked about things like drug pricing, or the gene and cell therapy industry.” Sienna commented that it wasn’t easy to capture this type of news about “those more general areas where there is news, rather than just published literature.”

She set up some Google Alerts, and subscribed to emails from assorted websites, but it was messy. And if members of the team weren’t already experts in an area (like bioprocessing, for example), Sienna found it hard to know which sources to look at for relevant research. 

Sienna and her team needed a way to ​track dozens of different topics and trends in biopharma at the same time from a large range of sources.

“Before using Feedly, we didn’t really know how to find ongoing news on these broader topics like drug pricing or the gene and cell therapy industry.”

THE SOLUTION
Using Feedly AI to track industry updates, innovations, and regulatory news

Back in 2013, Sienna knew she needed an RSS reader replacement to gather industry updates. At the time, she was using a free, personal Feedly account to read comics in her spare time, and quickly realized she could use the same tool to keep up with the biopharma industry. 

“I truly believe in the power of RSS. It makes Feedly a powerful one-stop shop for all our favorite web pages.”

Feedly AI reads through a pre-curated list of 3,000 top-tier biopharma publications: research journals, industry updates, regulatory news, PubMed, etc and surfaces content on the specific topics Sienna has selected. 
Now, Sienna and her team use Feedly for Biopharma plus the power of AI to track and gather information across the topics they need.

Tracking molecules, drugs, and clinical trials with AI Feeds

Finding relevant insights about a specific molecule or drug used to be like finding a needle in a haystack. But with Feedly AI, Sienna can now easily discover hyper-specific information about the drugs and clinical trials they need to keep up with. 

To replace noisy Google Alerts, Sienna created AI Feeds in Feedly, which allow her to track anything across the web (not just in sources she follows in Feedly), like specific genes, molecules, diseases, or clinical trials. Instead of skimming multiple email updates per day like she had to with Google Alerts, Sienna can refine her a AI Feeds for her specific needs and see results in a single Feed.

Sienna tracks regulatory changes related to Epilepsy and Scleroderma with AI Feeds. Feedly AI knows 5,000 diseases referenced in PubMed, NCBI, and MeSH so it can differentiate the disease names from a simple keyword.

For example, Sienna created an AI Feed for bioprocessing, a topic she was unfamiliar with. By asking Feedly AI to find articles about bioprocessing across the web, she didn’t need to know what the best sources of information were, but she could still get relevant insights about the topic. And as she continues to familiarize herself with the topic, she’s able to refine her bioprocessing AI Feeds to get even better results.

Sienna asked Feedly AI to track bioprocessing across the web.

“AI Feeds in Feedly allow me to be a lot more efficient than with Google Alerts. They’re a huge time saver: I get much fewer articles but all of them are relevant to my biopharma searches.”

AI Feeds like Sienna’s bioprocessing alert, allow her to keep track of news from sources she wouldn’t have found before. “And they’re so much less noisy than Google Alerts.”

Prioritizing top reads across favorite biopharma sources 

For topics Sienna and her team are a bit more familiar with, they already know their favorite sources to seek out information: news sites, research publications, and industry publications. They added all of these sources to Feedly, and asked Feedly AI to prioritize must-reads about drug manufacturers, lists of specific drugs, or specific topics like CRISPR. 

The team also adds Mute Filters to filter out the noise for certain topics. For example, in their Process Analytical Technology Innovation Feed, they’ve muted market reports, sports, and recreational drugs so they don’t get distracted by irrelevant results.

Asking Feedly AI to find similar articles to previously saved content

Since the team is already spending hours reading articles and saving them to Boards, they leverage their curation efforts with Like Boards. “We save things to boards to train Feedly AI,” explains Sienna. Like Boards are a niche feature that this team uses heavily. While we at Feedly pre-train Feedly AI on broad topics, Like Boards are an easy way for users to train Feedly AI to prioritize based on the content they’ve saved to Boards. Instead of surfacing articles about a specific topic, Feedly AI will find articles that share commonalities with what you’ve already saved.

Sienna saves articles to a Board to read later, share with team members, or train Feedly AI to prioritize types of articles you tend to save on a topic, like biopharma breakthroughs.

When Sienna and her team create a Like Board Priority, Feedly AI learns the types of articles they save, and then prioritizes similar articles in their Feeds.

THE RESULTS
A streamlined way to share critical information with hundreds across the company

With the information they gather in Feedly, Sienna and her team spend less than an hour per day to assemble informative weekly newsletters for 765 recipients. And instead of fielding multiple emails and alerts, they enjoy the peace of mind of getting all their open-source biopharma intelligence in a single location inside Feedly. 

By using AI Feeds, Priorities, and Like Boards inside Feedly, Sienna’s team can keep track of industry news and get insights from sources they might have missed with their limited time.

“If we didn’t have Feedly, we wouldn’t be able to capture the information in one place. We’d have to sign up for more email newsletters and then from there we’d have to go through the whole newsletter, whereas with Feedly you can go through one story at a time, all in one feed.”

Now that Sienna and her team have the information gathering process down to a science, she’s excited to explore other functionalities, like saving articles to Boards as a way of sharing with the team and broader company.

And beyond biopharma research? Sienna takes full advantage of the ability to save articles to personal boards, invisible to her team. She has a dedicated Board in Feedly for recipes 🍳

For more inspiration on using Feedly for personal use, see how one tech executive uses Feedly to fuel his passion project

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Using Feedly AI to sort technical updates from news commentary during the SolarWinds attack: A case study

Por Annie Bacher — 17 de Agosto de 2021, 10:05
Case Study
How one cybersecurity analyst leveraged Feedly AI to proactively evaluate news around the breach and protect his company and their clients and stakeholders

Back in 2020, it wasn’t hard to find information about the SolarWinds breach. In fact, the problem for cybersecurity analysts like Drew Gallis was the deafening noise of commentary about the breach. In a time of crisis, sites like New York Times and other editorial sources tend to drown out actionable technical information from security-specific sources. 

“SolarWinds catapulted into this massive newsline of all these articles saying stuff with no technical insights.”

Drew Gallis, Cybersecurity Analyst, WillowTree

Drew is a cybersecurity analyst at WillowTree, a digital product consultancy with clients including HBO, Domino’s, Anheuser-Busch InBev, FOX Sports and Hilton. He’s part of a small security team responsible for incident response, incident remediation, reporting on security news, and securing web and mobile applications. Given the limited amount of time he has for monitoring threat intelligence, Drew needed a way to separate critical technical updates from useless news commentary around the SolarWinds attack.

Finding actionable technical insights amid the noise of the attack

“A lot of news organizations just point fingers at different companies, without actually providing any technical backing as to why they’re saying these things,” says Drew. He needed to find useful, actionable information he could leverage to equip his company with the facts they needed to protect themselves and their clients from breaches related to SolarWinds. 

Drew and the cybersecurity team at WillowTree leaned heavily on their Feedly setup to monitor security news during the SolarWinds attack. In the article he published about the breach, Drew writes, “Feedly allows us to leverage and utilize Feedly AI, which can sort and aggregate our “feeds” by filters which narrows down on key indicators such as organization breaches, critical CVEs, vendor releases, system vulnerabilities, new security tooling, etc.”

“I used Feedly to find the real technical insights as to what happened during SolarWinds. So I could easily see IoCs and technical documentation as to how the attack was carried out.”

Using Feedly AI to eliminate false information and gather IoCs

Drew used Feedly AI to quickly eliminate false information which was abundant on the topic, such as accusations of Russian-owned company TeamCity. He was also able to gather any indicators of compromise (IoCs) on the issue, such as logs, data, and statistics. 

By gathering threat intelligence during the SolarWinds attack, Drew and his team were able to hand off actionable reports to developers and project managers to help WillowTree’s clients proactively protect against breaches. He says “I use Feedly to consolidate information and quickly generate actionable documentation and reports that we can then share with our clients. For SolarWinds, I was giving our clients indicators of compromise and different domains associated with the actual breach so they could better protect themselves.” 

Drew uses the information he finds in Feedly to make sure he’s not only educating clients about indicators of compromise and proofs of concept related to SolarWinds, but also helping them protect themselves during future attacks. 

“I use Feedly to consolidate information and quickly generate actionable documentation and reports that we can share with our clients”

WillowTree uses Feedly for Cybersecurity to separate the actionable insights from the noisy commentary. To learn more about using Feedly for threat intelligence, read the full case study about WillowTree’s setup.

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How a WillowTree cybersecurity analyst gathers threat intelligence in just 30 minutes a day

Por Annie Bacher — 17 de Agosto de 2021, 10:03
Case Study
Drew Gallis, analyst at WillowTree, leverages Feedly for Cybersecurity to track cyber threats across the company’s supply chain and protect clients
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Keeps track of critical vulnerabilities in the supply chain so he can react quickly.

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Went from spending 2-3 hours sorting through threat intelligence news to 30 minutes of reading only the most relevant articles.

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Monitors breaches and vulnerabilities that could put clients at risk…and creates proactive solutions before they become disasters.

THE CUSTOMER
WillowTree, Digital Product Consultancy

Started using Feedly For Cybersecurity: 2020

WillowTree is a digital product consultancy with clients including HBO, Domino’s, Anheuser-Busch InBev, FOX Sports and Hilton. Drew Gallis, a security analyst at WillowTree’s Virginia headquarters, is part of a small team responsible for company security and for proactively alerting WillowTree’s clients of security concerns.

THE CHALLENGE
A limited amount of time to dedicate to threat intelligence

With a small team dedicated to cybersecurity, efficiency is everything. The team at Willow Tree has to stay on top of the threat landscape so nothing falls through the cracks. While Drew’s official title is “Cyber Security Analyst,” he wears multiple hats: incident response, incident remediation, reporting on security news, and securing web and mobile applications developed by WillowTree, with 20-30 projects running at any given time. 

Consuming information fast so he can quickly share actionable insights across the company 

Drew is deeply passionate about cybersecurity and wants to get the word out to everyone in the company. He’s genuinely excited about sharing information that helps other people (developers, clients, etc.) do their jobs better and be safer.

Only about 20% of Drew’s job is dedicated to risk and analysis, and even less of that time is available for news monitoring. So he needed a way to find the best news about critical vulnerabilities without eating up the rest of his time at work. 

Trying out Feedly for Cybersecurity to consolidate and prioritize in one place

Drew’s mentor and supervisor, Adrian Guevara, Head of Cyber Security at WillowTree, had been using Feedly’s free plan for years to consolidate all of his cybersecurity information into one place. So when Drew and his team learned about Feedly for Cybersecurity’s ability to help them refine their Feeds and prioritize the most important information, they had to try it. 

“I only have about 20% of my day to look into risk and analyze different things going on within our organization. I wanted to narrow our data and focus on certain points with my limited time.

Drew Gallis, Cyber Security Analyst, WillowTree

THE SOLUTION
Reducing the volume of information to only critical insights

Adrian and Drew already had all of their top cybersecurity sources organized into Feeds on the free plan. So when they joined Feedly for Cybersecurity, all they had to do was start using Feedly AI to prioritize the most important news. Feedly AI reads every article in their Feeds, and then separates the most important ones into the ‘Priority’ tab. Thanks to this sorting and organization, Adrian and Drew can spend their limited attention reading the high-priority news first. 

“The biggest thing for us was exploring Feedly AI’s functionality. We made tailored filters to prioritize specific services, specific programming languages, specific packages, and different vendors we use.”

Prioritizing critical vulnerabilities in WillowTree’s tech stack

First, Drew set up AI Feeds for all the software tools and services that they use internally at WillowTree. This was simple: He just used AND to add each supplier’s name. 

Drew prioritized critical vulnerabilities for any of the companies in WillowTree’s supply chain.

Then, Drew added a layer to this AI Feed. In addition to prioritizing products and services used at WillowTree, he prioritized high CVEs for services in WillowTree’s tech stack. 

“Normally there wouldn’t be too many articles in my Priority tab, so if I saw a news article pop up, I knew it would be something pressing.

Tracking major programming languages 

Drew asked Feedly AI to prioritize articles that mention any of the major programming languages used for clients at WillowTree. These include: Swift, .NET, Python, C, JavaScript, and TypeScript. 

Drew prioritized critical vulnerabilities for major programming languages WillowTree and their clients use.

Tracking the vulnerabilities that potentially impact clients

Drew also wanted to prioritize news about breaches or cybersecurity events affecting WillowTree’s clients so he could notify them as soon as possible. He used client names (most of which Feedly AI recognizes as companies) in a Priority looking for data breaches. 

Drew created this AI Feed to find out about data breaches in conjunction with WillowTree’s clients.

Tracking issues regarding MacOS

Since WillowTree is a primarily MacOS company, they’re especially interested in any vulnerabilities affecting MacOS. Drew asked Feedly AI to prioritize vulnerabilities related to MacOS so he could easily tell the rest of the company if there was something to be concerned about.

Drew prioritized articles about MacOS vulnerabilities within his team’s cybersecurity Feed.

THE RESULTS
Protecting WillowTree and their clients in just 25% of the time

Since using Feedly AI, Drew has been able to cut down intelligence gathering time every day to just 30 minutes. He knows which articles are most important to read, and can easily see what’s happening in the world of cybersecurity. Not only can he respond quicker to threats and vulnerabilities, Feedly AI also gives him more time to focus on other important work.

“Instead of having to look and sort through articles over 2-hour periods, now I can do it in about 30 minutes, and get better quality of information with Feedly AI.

Protecting WillowTree with continual threat monitoring

Drew leveraged his Feedly setup during the SolarWinds attack to get the critical information, without the noise that happens during this kind of event. Drew didn’t care about the editorial commentary around SolarWinds; he wanted the technical facts so that he could serve his company and their clients. 

How WillowTree sorted technical updates from news commentary during the  SolarWinds breach: Read the full story

Beyond the SolarWinds event, Drew is able to equip WillowTree developers with the information they need to protect the company. Whenever he finds a vulnerability through Feedly, he shares more about it with the team so they understand why fixing it is important. He also uses the information he finds in Feedly to verify Proof of Concepts (PoCs).

Alerting WillowTree clients to security concerns 

Drew also uses Feedly to get indicators of compromise (IoCs) to share with clients, to better protect them now and prevent future threats. He can now send developers and project managers actionable documentation that they can share with clients in the case of a threat.

Before using Feedly AI, Drew spent upwards of two hours each day monitoring security news. Now, he’s reduced the time spent monitoring to just 30 minutes per day. Since using Feedly AI to prioritize critical news, he spends 75% less time, but gets better quality information because his Feeds are tailored to his exact needs. 

“Security news is massive in terms of the scope and the breadth it can go, because each industry has different news. Feedly will save you time and help you condense all of your news articles and news feeds into one place.”

Drew’s team is expanding with a new security hire soon. He plans to train the new team member on the monitoring foundation he’s set up with Feedly so he and his team can continue to efficiently monitor supply chain threats, alert clients, and get the information they need. 

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How one tech exec used Feedly to power his passion project

Por Sarah Hartland — 15 de Junho de 2021, 17:08
Case Study
Steve Makofsky shares how Feedly has become part of his newsletter creation workflow

When the world went into lockdown back in March 2020, Steve Makofsky, like many of us, was feeling a little restless. 

Steve, a long-time tech executive (Disney, Nike), is an engineer with a passion for streamlining his workflow and feeding his mind. Could he find a quarantine project that allowed him to do both while keeping up with his insane to-do list? With a little ingenuity (and the help of Feedly), the answer turned out to be yes. 

Searching for a signal in a sea of noise 

Back in the day Steve, a tech old-timer, stayed up to date via blogs. As a reader he found it easy to discover interesting new perspectives simply by checking the blog rolls of his favorite writers and visiting the sites they recommended. As the author of a couple of books on programming he also blogged himself to drive interest towards his work. 

But as the Internet evolved, Steve found less and less value in blogs. He still dug around online for useful takes and fresh voices, but it felt a whole lot harder to find them. “Something has been lost in blogging,” he says. “I found discovery of similar content to what I like, or maybe opposing views to challenge some of my ideas, has been a real struggle.” 

As a service to a small group of friends and colleagues facing similar challenges, Steve began sending out an ‘annual report’ listing resources they might find interesting. He often received grateful notes in reply. Then, coronavirus struck and Steve found himself with time on his hands. He wondered if he couldn’t supercharge his ‘annual report,’ turning it into a weekly newsletter offering links to great resources from around the web. 

Squeezing a passion project into a jam-packed schedule 

Steve has an extremely busy day job, which means he needed to find an efficient way to discover and process content for his new passion project. Enter Feedly, stage right. He began supplementing his existing feeds with content he discovered using Feedly AI, as well as scouring Twitter and Reddit for interesting sources. 

He also subscribed to a number of Substack newsletters, which he’s happy to aggregate with the rest of his content via Feedly, sparing his inbox further clutter. “I’m glad I don’t have 83 things hit my inbox every day anymore,” he laughs. Steve then uses Feedly to sort all these insights into topical feeds like ‘Mind Changers’ (for writers that often shift his perspective) and ‘Workflow’ (for time-saving tips). (You can read a deeper diver into his aggregation process here.)  

It’s an incoming river of content, but Steve has designed a streamlined system for winnowing it down to just the ten or so links he includes in his weekly newsletter

“Every two or three days, I have a reminder to clean out my to-read list. I carve out 30 minutes in the evening to read some stuff. By the end of the week, I end up with 30 or 40 tagged items. I spend Friday night really going through them, getting the pulse of what I want to talk about, and limiting them down to ten,” he explains. 

A bit of clever automation Steve built allows him to export his top links, along with their headlines, into a template. After another 30 minutes of summarizing and polishing, he’s ready to hit send on his weekly newsletter of suggested links. 

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All together that adds up to no more than a few hours a week for Steve’s newsletter side project, but he’s seen sizable benefits from this modest investment of time. First, recipients seem genuinely appreciative. “Oddly enough, it is gathering an audience,” he says of his weekly updates. “I did not expect that. I just write pretty authentically, but it seems to resonate with people.”  

Perhaps even more importantly, Steve believes the project not only kept him occupied in quarantine but also gives him a leg up professionally. 

“The process has kept me in tune with what’s going on around me with technology. I’ll sit around with my colleagues and I’ll be talking about something they don’t know about. So it enables me to keep up with what’s up and coming. It’s good mental exercise.” 

With all due respect to quarantine baking or gardening, that is a pretty impressive benefit for a lockdown side project. 

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How an Australian energy provider stays on top of critical cyber threats with Feedly

Por Annie Bacher — 27 de Maio de 2021, 12:17
Case Study
This analyst team designed AI-powered security Feeds in Feedly that proactively alert them about specific topics, threats, and threat actors
Impact
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Discovered a supply chain data breach a week before the public announcement

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Able to monitor hundreds of suppliers for breaches

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Detected a critical vulnerability within 2 hours of its release and patched it immediately

This Feedly for Cybersecurity client has graciously allowed us to share their story on the condition of anonymity. Client names have been changed.

THE CUSTOMER
This energy provider “helps keep the lights on for customers”

Started using Feedly Cybersecurity: 2020

This Feedly client plays a critical role across the Australian energy sector. In tandem with other market players, they help protect Australia’s national energy supply from cyber attacks. “We help keep the lights on for customers,” says Joe, Cybersecurity Threat Analyst.

THE CHALLENGE
Cybersecurity threat intelligence at human speed is no longer sustainable

The onslaught of information

The world of cyber threat tracking runs on a different clock than human speed. The firehose of cyber news makes it hard for our client’s security analysts to find the signal through the noise. Analysts like Joe and his team struggled to keep up with the onslaught of information. Joe used to manage his own personal spreadsheet of 350 sources of information, which he ranked by tiers based on how trusted they were. But the amount of screen time required to keep up with incoming information and identify trends was unsustainable. “The cyber world is like drinking from a firehose in terms of the information we see,” says Joe.

There’s this concept of cyber time. Last week’s issue is like three years ago. We’re so swamped with information, we don’t have time to dive deep on a lot of stuff.”

– Joe, Cybersecurity Threat Analyst

Ever-changing types of attacks and attackers

As cyber threats and ransomware crews become increasingly sophisticated, the human ability to monitor the cyber threat landscape falls behind. No matter how knowledgeable you are, cybersecurity at human speed can’t keep up with ransomware crews using increasingly complex software to manage their operations. 

For companies like this energy provider, the stakes are high. “If they encrypt our environment, we can’t supply energy to customers,” says Joe. 

A data breach of even the smallest of our client’s vendors could put them at risk, so Joe and his team needed a way to keep an eye on even the smallest of breaches. 

THE SOLUTION
Using AI to flag specific cyber attacks, threats, and vulnerabilities

The analyst team at this company needed better tools to help leverage their time and attention and stop doing manual research. Joe’s team had been using Feedly to aggregate information for years. But when his boss, Oliver, Cyber Security Manager, found out that Feedly’s cybersecurity-specific plan could use AI to flag cyber attacks, threats, and vulnerabilities, they knew they had to try it. 

Organizing their security sources into focused Feeds 

Oliver created Feeds around three main focus areas: renewable energy sources + cybersecurity, critical vulnerabilities, and supply chain threats. 

The team selected sources of information they trusted to track cybersecurity news. Not all articles from their trusted sources concern the energy sector. To filter out cybersecurity news unrelated to the energy sector, they configured Feedly AI to flag articles about the specific areas they care about.

“Before using Feedly AI, we had very generic Feeds. We were just looking for energy and cybersecurity news in our region. But over time, I’ve been able to nuance our requirements over supply chain attacks, like Solar Winds.”

Tracking ransomware in the energy space

For example, the analyst team has always tracked news at the intersection of cybersecurity and the energy sector. But once they started using Feedly for Cybersecurity, they created an AI Feed to flag articles that cover ransomware in the energy industry.

The team created an AI Feed to flag articles about ransomware and the energy industry.

Tracking supply chain attacks

“We were concerned about the supply chain risk for our company,” says Joe. “We talked to our internal procurement team to really understand our top 30 providers, with whom we spend millions of dollars.”

To track supply chain risks, the team selected the exact vendors they work with and created a personalized stream of intelligence to track risks coming from their supply chain. “We were able to turn the list of our top partners into an AI Feed and ask him to flag cyber attacks targeting those partners,” explains Joe. 

The analyst team used the “Feedly Company Lists” feature to track a list of 650 suppliers — from Microsoft to small law offices. Feedly AI now flags articles about cyber attacks on those companies.  

With an AI Feed n place, Feedly AI flags articles about data breaches related to any of the company’s suppliers, so they’ll know when one of the companies in their supply chain is breached or attacked. Feedly AI recognizes most of these names as companies, so he can differentiate if an attack is about Amazon (company) vs. Amazon (the river), for example.

Pushing articles to Slack to share with the local intelligence community 

Beyond their internal intelligence team, Joe and Oliver share information across several platforms with peer organizations cybersecurity teams around the globe. 

When members of Joe’s team save articles to the “Attacks in Energy Sector” Board, they automatically get pushed to a designated channel in Slack.

Joe and Oliver add critical articles to a specific Feedly Board. They’ve connected the Board to the collaboration platforms, so when Joe or his teammates add articles to the Board, their security community will automatically see critical updates. 

The analyst team can add Notes when they save articles to their “Attacks in Energy Sector” Board, and those notes will show up in the designated Slack channel.

THE RESULTS
Staying ahead of the curve

In October 2020, thanks to the work Joe had done to create AI Feeds based on their top 30 suppliers, his team proactively identified a data breach from one of their vendors. 

“Thanks to my supply chain AI Feed in Feedly, we identified that one of our vendors had been breached a week before the company actually officially told us.”

This proactive alerting allowed Joe’s team to inform procurement areas and monitor leak sites to see if any sensitive material had been published. Luckily none had been released, and the issue eventually went away.

In March 2021, Joe checked his Feedly in the morning as usual, and found an F5 breach within two hours of the breach itself. “I was sitting at my desk, and I saw the F5 vulnerability pop up in Feedly. I pushed it out to management, and then there was a massive effort to patch that problem within two days, which was awesome.” 

I was sitting at my desk, and I saw the F5 vulnerability pop up in Feedly. I pushed it out to management, and then there was a massive effort to patch that problem within two days, which was awesome.”

Avoiding information overload

When a vulnerability is exposed, “information overload goes up — you can see how the malware reporting goes up associated with that particular vulnerability” says Joe. In response to an exposed vulnerability, there’s a corresponding increase in exploits. That’s where Feedly comes in. Instead of wading through pages of articles about vulnerabilities and exploits that don’t concern his company, Joe can use Feedly AI to surface vulnerabilities and exploits relevant to them.

“And that’s the power of Feedly. Using the smarts, intelligence, and Feedly AI’s natural language processing to align vulnerabilities with exploits. What pops out at the end is what you need to know, what you need to take action on. Not the noise.”

What’s next: expanding the supply chain tracking 

In late 2020, the analyst team discovered that a smaller supplier was attacked after using a tool with an unpatched vulnerability. Criminals were able to steal data through a File Transfer tool. Our client was spending a relatively small amount of money with this company, so they weren’t on their list of top 30 suppliers, but this made Joe and his team realize they needed to expand their supply chain tracking in Feedly. 

The more they personalize their Feeds with help from Feedly AI, the more our client’s security analysts can stay focused on the real threats. As Joe trusts Feedly more and more, he can focus on the high level analysis, and rely on Feedly AI ‘s natural language processing to do the tedious work for him. 

Joe is excited for the possibilities to get even more proactive with upcoming Feedly features. In addition to their supply chain tracking project, the analyst team plans to use the Feedly API to push alerts directly to their internal intelligence platform, which will make it even easier to focus on threats.

From a proactive monitoring perspective, the power of using Feedly is to actually inform you of breaches before anyone else knows.”

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Rev1 spots investment opportunities sooner while cutting research time in half

Por Annie Bacher — 11 de Fevereiro de 2021, 22:25
Case Study
How a VC firm uses Feedly to keep a finger on the pulse of the startup ecosystem
Impact
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Deeper understanding of emerging trends in foodtech, insurtech, enterprise software, and digital health

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Able to spot new investment opportunities that might otherwise have been overlooked

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No more information overload:
70% noise reduction, 5 hours saved per week

The Client
Leading investor startup studio Rev1 Ventures

Columbus, OH, USA
Started using Feedly: September 2018

Rev1 is an investor startup studio that combines capital and strategic services to help startups scale and corporations innovate. The company focuses on industries including enterprise software, data analytics, fintech, insurtech, digital health, and life science.

Since we track market sectors, news about the latest funding rounds, and product launches, we have been able to identify new companies worth looking at through our Feedly Feeds. Before, we could’ve easily read right past it or missed it with all of the noise.

Matt Chimes, Director of Rev1 Ventures

The Challenge
Keeping up with industry intelligence was a manual, repetitive process. “You end up with a lot of tabs saved for later.”

Keeping up with the startup ecosystem

Rev1 needs to keep up with industry trends to identify emerging market opportunities and technologies for investment. They also want to provide timely information and deep domain expertise to startups that could benefit from their years of industry knowledge. Staying on top of various industries and where they are heading takes a lot of time to research and monitor.

Sifting for contextually relevant information took up too much time

Before finding Feedly, Rev1 had a system for keeping up with industry trends. But, it involved manual processes, like jumping from website to website, opening tabs, bookmarking for later, and sifting through headlines for relevant news. Rev1’s process relied on finding news from known publications and experts in their network. They wanted to reduce blind spots and avoid missing key information on the latest trends.

Aggregating and sharing articles across the team was a clunky process

To send a weekly newsletter with relevant news and insights, Rev1 kept a system of bookmarks and email drafts to aggregate key snippets and links. It worked, but they would rather spend that time synthesizing the information than organizing it. They started looking for tools that would help consolidate their efforts, parse for relevant information, and share insights.

“It’s counterproductive because you’d rather spend time synthesizing relevant information versus looking for it. We were looking for tools that could help us streamline those efforts and consolidate sources for specific topics of interest.”

The Solution
An AI-powered intelligence hub

First, Matt and his team organized all their sources in one place

When Rev1 started using Feedly as a team, they first organized their trusted sources for industry insights into a set of Feeds relevant to their focus areas — foodtech, insurtech, and digital health to name a few. Consolidating this information brought everyone — from partners to analysts — to one central location where they could find and share industry insights.

Rev1’s Team Feeds — collections of information sources the whole team has access to.

In Rev1’s foodtech Feed, they follow:

Then Rev1 asked Feedly AI to spot relevant insurtech topics, trends, and startups

Matt and Rev1 wanted to refine the information that showed up in their Feeds and filter out the signal from the noise. That’s where Feedly AI came in.

In their insurtech Feed, Rev1 asked Feedly AI to look for significant business events like funding rounds related to claims, underwriting, or P&C insurance. With the Business Event AI Model, Feedly AI looks for mergers & acquisitions, new product launches, or fundraising events. If an insurtech startup raised a $10 million funding round, Rev1 would know about it.

Rev1 set up AI Feeds for funding events related to claims, underwriting, or P&C insurance.

Matt created a Mute Filter to get rid of noise. Feedly AI now removes anything related to health insurance in their insurtech Feed.

Let’s say something new happens in Singapore and has nothing to do with property and casualty insurance. Maybe it’s health insurance-related. How do you filter out those articles from the topic of focus? That’s what we try to accomplish with Mute Filters.

Matt also used a Like Board Feed to ask Feedly AI to spot articles similar to ones they had already saved in their “Insurtech Opportunities” Board. This helps Rev1 cover blind spots if an industry-relevant article is published by an unbeknownst source.

They started sharing research findings with Team Boards

Matt created Team Boards around topics like insurtech, healthcare, foodtech, Venture Capital, and Columbus, OH startups. He used these shared spaces to save articles, add Notes and Highlights, and tag teammates that should see specific content.

Team Boards make it easy for everyone in the company to stay aligned on the topics that are most important to the business.

We centralized our favorite sources for relevant topics and no longer have to keep 30+ different web tabs for later. Then, we asked Feedly AI to sift through the information to spot contextually relevant information based on topics we care about. Thinking about where things are at now, it’s an elegant, well-oiled machine.”

Matt Chimes, Director of Rev1 Ventures

The Results
50% time saved on industry research, 70% less noise, and a closer eye on investment opportunities

Before Feedly, Rev1’s manual curation process felt like swimming upstream against a flood of information. By optimizing their information gathering process and taking advantage of Feedly AI’s ability to filter and prioritize, they cut research time by 50%.

“We were able to cut our research time in half. Time equates to cost savings, being able to spend time elsewhere, focus on our company, and spend time synthesizing the information instead of just pulling it.”

Using Feedly Feeds meant that Rev1 could follow general publications like TechCrunch and still get hyper-focused information

Before Feedly AI, the Rev1 team would also scan broad sources like TechCrunch or VentureBeat for pertinent articles. These publications cover a wide variety of industries beyond insurtech, so parsing through the information would take some time.

But by setting up AI Feeds for the specific topics they care about (for example: insurance innovation), Feedly AI will place topically relevant articles on Rev1’s feed. They can now continue to follow wide-reaching sources like TechCrunch with a keen eye for industry-specific intelligence.

Finding investment opportunities and partnerships through Feedly

Now that the Rev1 team doesn’t spend hours wading through open browser tabs and email chains full of links, they have more time to focus on the content of the news. With refined Feeds and sources, Rev1 can keep a much closer eye on who to invest in and which partnerships to pursue.

The smarter Feedly AI gets, the more Rev1 can synthesize and share information. Matt’s excited about the possibilities: “We set the foundation for something that could be highly-efficient and effective moving forward.”

We’re able to stay up to date with the latest trends. We have more actionable, up-to-date information as a result. We’ve saved time because of the quality of information that Feedly AI has prioritized for us.”

Matt Chimes, Director of Rev1 Ventures

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✇ Bibliotrónica Portuguesa

A Impureza do Sentido

Por Angela Correia — 28 de Maio de 2019, 14:42

Um quarteto de narrativas breves, atravessadas pelo quarteto para cordas e quatro helicópteros de Karlheinz Stockhausen, prefaciadas pelo compositor Nuno da Rocha, com ilustração do artista plástico Jorge Caseirão: eis como pode apresentar-se o novo original da Bibliotrónica Portuguesa. A Impureza do Sentido começou a nascer durante uma leitura de «Poesia Pura», de M. S. Lourenço; tem posfácio de Ângela Correia, que também assina a edição.

É o primeiro livrónico a ser publicado na renovada Bibliotrónica Portuguesa, o que também significa a possibilidade de os nossos leitores o avaliarem. Esperamos que não percam a oportunidade.

Convidamos entretanto todos os que tenham curiosidade a observar a criação, segundo um método peculiar, de um dos desenhos que ilustram o livro, antes de avançarem para a leitura das narrativas de Hélio Sequeira, Ana Kopke, Bruno Mourato e Ana C. Rafael.

O conteúdo A Impureza do Sentido aparece primeiro em Bibliotrónica Portuguesa.

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I love Brenthaven!

Por Kathy Schrock — 3 de Abril de 2019, 21:29


If you follow this blog, you know I regularly review items from Brenthaven, a great company with an awesome focus on the educational market! Their designs are intended to withstand even the most careless student, with cases that can take being thrown in the locker, to headphones that have a breakaway plug for those students who get tangled up in wires easily. And, although we can try to control how the school's technology is treated while in school, we have little control over the out-of-school safety of the devices, as illustrated below! It is important schools invest in protective and proven device protection of the type Brenthaven offers.


"A mess of wires" by Marshall Vandergrift. CC license: CC-BY-SA. Flickr, 2007. 

Brenthaven allows me to look through their offerings and pick two or three I personally feel are items that would be great for schools! I view their collections with a different point of view each time. Sometimes, as I did in my previous reviews of the Tred Zip Folio and the Edge Carry Case for the iPad, I am considering ways the student devices can be kept safe when in and out of the backpack.

This time, I was interested in reviewing two backpack-- ones that work well for student and teacher smaller devices.


TRED SLIM PACK

Brenthaven's Tred Slim Pack backpack is made especially for the K-12 environment. I chose to review it because of its smaller size. With many schools supporting a 1:1 laptop initiative and providing students with digital copies of textbooks (with sets of paper textbooks being kept in the classroom), there is no need for students to carry the large backpack of a few years ago that weighed in, with books and larger devices, at 20-25 pounds.

Below is a video I created in 2013 illustrating this transformation of a student backpack because of smaller and more powerful technology tools and apps.


The Tred Slim Pack holds a 14" (or under) laptop or tablet, and the Tred's back zippered pocket is totally padded to keep it protected. The shoulder straps are also nicely padded.



In addition, there are two large zippered outside pockets that can be used for cables and power supplies, snacks, or even a water bottle. There is also a full-width horizontal zippered pocket located on the outside for a cell phone, sunglasses, or a wallet.




Brenthaven has included some specific features on the backpack to support its educational users. First, there is a reflective item on the front, back, and sides of the Tred Slim Pack to keep students visible and safe as they wait for the early morning bus or walk home in the late afternoons. In addition, the rear of the backpack includes a clear card pocket for easy access to gift students easy access to their ID card.

The Tred Slim Pack is very sturdy and protective, but also very lightweight at less than 1.2 pounds. Its external dimensions are 16.5" high, 11.5" wide and 4" deep. I loaded up the Tred Slim Pack with my 13" MacBook Pro, the power adapter and charging cable, my Apple XS Max phone, my headphones, a filled metal coffee travel mug, and a paper notebook. The full backpack weighed only 5.4 pounds!


Band for excess strap





Another nice little feature is the inclusion of a stretchy band to hold the excess from the backpack straps nice and neat. As one who hates those hanging straps, it is a great addition! And, again, it is a safety feature for students who might be riding a bicycle to school or any other activity that may cause loose straps to get caught.




The Tred Slim Pack would be a good choice for students in grades 4 -12 due to its smaller size and light weight! Give it a look, and, if you are considering this backpack which will protect the technology and the posture of your students, request a sample unit of Brenthaven's Tred Slim Pack to review!


COLLINS BACKPACK

Brenthaven also makes a line of bags and backpacks for educators. I am partial to the Collins series, which comes in graphite or indigo, and I already own the ones starred below. I decided I wanted to review the Collins Backpack.





The Collins Backpack is a feature-rich, professional-looking backpack for any educator. It is large enough to replace your "teacher bag" with lots of storage!

The side-load, fully padded and quilted laptop pocket can hold up to a 15.6" laptop. (I actually plan to use that area for books, papers , and a light sweater, since my 13" MacBook Pro fits nicely in the middle section padded, quilted pocket (shown on the left with the iPad in it).


This second full-size zippered section is an organized teacher's dream! It includes a smaller padded and quilted pocket that can hold a tablet, small laptop, or a sheaf of papers. The front of the padded section includes three pockets for power bricks, cables, and  a cell phone. The front flap of this section also includes a half-height zippered pocket to hold additional teacher necessities!

This section of the Collins Backpack is very deep and can hold notebooks, papers for grading, and your lunch bag, too! The dimensions of the entire backpack are 16.6" high, 12.5" wide, and 6" deep. It weighs practically nothing -- 1.8 pounds!

The front of the backpack includes two zip pockets. The top one could hold a cell phone, small e-reader, or a snack for the teacher's room. The second zippered section unzips on the top and right side and provides access to a key fob, a small padded pocket I would use for glasses or sunglasses, a pencil or stylus pocket, and a small slip pocket for a license, ID card, or credit cards.

I love the "vegan leather" bottom on the Collins Backpack since it is easy to sponge off after setting it on a dirty floor. If you load this backpack evenly, the 6" deep bottom will also allow it to stand on its own. The matching integrated handle on the top of the backpack is substantial and allows you another way to tote the bag. However, the padded back and backpack straps make the Collins Backpack comfortable to wear as a regular backpack, too!

If you are looking for a nice backpack to tote back and forth to school, take a look at the Brenthaven Collins Backpack!





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