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Staff Threat Feed

A weekly digest, written in plain English and built from real attack telemetry, that small business owners can forward to their team to build genuine cyber awareness — no phishing simulations, no scare tactics.

Target user

owners of small shops, clinics, and agencies with 5-50 employees who can't afford a security trainer but know staff mistakes are the real risk

Features
  • Curated 'attacks your industry saw this week' digest using real honeypot and public threat-intel feeds
  • Plain-English one-page briefings employees can read in 90 seconds with no jargon
  • Monthly team quiz tied to current real-world attack patterns (not stale phishing templates)
  • Optional manager summary showing which topics the team understood vs. missed
Why now

Bots attacking SSH are the same class of adversary probing small business employees via email and login pages — the live stream makes the abstract threat visceral, which is exactly what security awareness training has failed to do for SMBs.

Signals · overall 6/10
Demand
6/10

Security awareness is a real SMB spend category with established $0.50–$6/user/month pricing benchmarks, and free weekly threat digests (SANS, CyberSecurity News) confirm steady readership demand for the digest format.Security Awareness Training Cost: 2026 Pricing Guide17 Cybersecurity Newsletters To Stay Up To Date In 2026 - The CTO Club

Whitespace
5/10

Awareness market is crowded with KnowBe4, Proofpoint, Hoxhunt, NINJIO, Living Security, Adaptive Security, Right-Hand — but all focus on training modules and phishing simulations; a plain-English weekly digest built from live honeypot telemetry aimed specifically at non-technical SMB owners forwarding to staff is a narrower niche.Best KnowBe4 Alternatives & Competitors | Adaptive SecurityBest Hoxhunt Alternatives in 2025: Right-Hand Cybersecurity, KnowBe4, NINJIO, Living Security

Monetization
5/10

Vendor pricing exists at $0.50–$6/user/month and $12–$36/user/year, but SMBs are notoriously price-sensitive and compete directly against free weekly newsletters (SANS, CyberSecurity News) — conversion to paid will be hard without clear differentiation.Security Awareness Training Cost in 2025 | ConsilienSANS Institute Newsletters

Longevity
7/10

Human-factor risk and bot-driven credential attacks are persistent long-term trends; live-telemetry framing ages well as long as the feed stays genuinely current.

Feasibility
8/10

Open-source SSH honeypots (Cowrie-based Skypot, SamNet, GhostTrap) and live dashboards already exist as reference builds; weekly digest production reduces to curation + plain-English writing + email delivery — straightforward.Skypot: A Honeypot Attack Analysis DashboardSamNet Honeypot | Real-Time Cyber Attack Monitoring

Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time · 82 points · 33 commentsHacker News · 2026-07-17 (7d ago)