AI + Cyber - Automating a Cyber Threat Alerts Brief
Just a quick one here. I have been trying to get one of the several generative AI (GenAI) apps I use to do this for me for quite a few months now. So today I’ve had a bit of a victory dance moment when Claude 4 made this work. I do a weekly cyber threat alerts brief. It’s not a huge amount of work, but it chews up a fair chunk of time. I start with a (regularly expanding/contracting) curated list of RSS feeds from around 20 sites that I think of as top tier sources in this area.
During the week I check those feeds and mark individual articles that hit the sweet spot for relevance and level of attention they might need, and then copy/paste those, with their links always cited, into my template for the brief.
The stumbling block up to now has often been that multiple GenAI apps seemed to think that RSS feeds require login, which they do not.
Today, I included “that do not require login” in my prompt to Claude 4, gave it 12 of the feeds on my curated list, and a set of keywords to filter on. Claude served up a python script to automate this and provided output files in csv, md, and JSON file formats. The script had just a couple of syntax errors, but once I shared the error messages related to those, Claude fixed them,
The output is not perfect yet. Around 90 percent of the articles it includes in its report are current and relevant - from this week or close to it. The other 10 percent are outdated. I’ll look to get that improved, but right now the amount of time it takes to run the python script and trim out anything outdated or just not meeting my criteria for what should have most attention is way way less time than my manual efforts.