CyberMiser - Deep Dive

Security Colony

This amazing resource has blown us away.  It's free to sign up (even its premium version is really inexpensive) and yet delivers tens of thousands of dollars worth of cybersecurity value to enterprises of all sizes.

Solving a big problem Without Spending big

First, a Cybermiser disclaimer, we believe in these guys so much, we're working with them to help get the word out about the good stuff they do.  

So why do we love them?  It's simple. Every tech journalist we've talked to about Security Colony has said the same thing: it's about time that someone has unlocked all this information and shared it with the people who need it.  

Like us, tech journalists are really tired of seeing an endless stream of big price tag cybersecurity, solutions that don't work and people selling on FUD and not reason.  

So what is Security Colony exactly?  It's one part on-demand, battle-tested arsenal of cyber security resources written by the world's leading experts for some of the world’s biggest companies and several parts powerful interactive tools that can give any organisation a solid sense of their security posture and others.  

And it's all built around one, single radical idea: in the cloak-and-dagger world of cybersecurity, where opacity often lets vendors charge more, sharing and transparency may very well help all of us rationalise our spending and make us more secure.  

After all, the driving philosophy is that the vast majority of money businesses spend on security is wasted spend - they're essentially paying consultants to solve problems they’ve already solved elsewhere.

Hackers Share; We Should Too

When you think about it, hackers share resources better than we do. They learn from each other, they adapt, and they improve each other’s work – as long as this is the case they will always have the upper hand.

Security Colony aims to take this advantage away from hackers. If a problem has already been solved in one organisation, that information should be shared with others.

The 80-20 Rule

80-20.  This concept really got us going, because we looked around an saw how true it was --and you will probably will too.  Ultimately, the guys behind Security Colony recognised that 80 per cent of every cyber security solution is common across every organisation – there’s going to be almost no variation in the policies security consultants develop for their clients. Businesses pay to have these developed from ‘scratch’, but really they’re just receiving re-badged outputs from a previous project. Security Colony aims to put an end to this.

By unlocking the vaults to this intelligence, businesses can focus their spend on the 20 per cent of the problem that is unique to them.  Focus on the 20 per cent and stop paying so much for the 80.

BUSINESSES CAN SAVE tens of thousands of dollars

At its core, Security Colony gives subscribers access to the output from thousands of consulting projects delivered for organisations just like theirs, saving tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, and weeks or months of effort in rolling out their cyber security programs.  

The Guys who built this are the real thing

As if that wasn't enough, the attitudes of the founders shine through in how they speak.  Here's a quote from co-founder, Nick Ellsmore. Nick has delivered thousands of projects for everyone from the United Nations through  
to the largest banks and mining companies in the world, and has seen first hand the massive  amounts of money being wasted on consultants.

I'm co-founder of Security Colony and I am a contrarian in cyber security.  I'm the one guy in this room who thinks you _don't_ need to spend more money on cyber security.

Want to give it a try?  They've made Security Colony so it's a Freemium model, meaning you can get a lot of the great features without spending a dime.  You can click below to sign up.  We didn't think twice.

They've also done this video, so you can learn more about how it works.