r/AskNetsec
267k members
r/AskNetsec is a subreddit with 267k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses security, struggling, ai security, job, and ai agent, and they frequently recommend/review password manager, siem, and registrar.
Dedicated to those passionate about security.
Popular Themes in r/AskNetsec
#1
Advice Requests
: "How do you handle Suricata/Zeek tuning without a dedicated detection engineer?"
13 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Digital forensics started after we rebooted the only infected server and I feel sick about it"
3 posts
#3
Ideas
: "Hypothetical: If you could redesign the Internet from scratch, how would you build the protocol stack to make censorship architecturally impossible?"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/AskNetsec
#1
Security
: "How do you prioritise Security findings beyond severity scores?"
10 posts
#2
Struggling
8 posts
#3
Ai Security
: "Is PR review even catching AI generated code vulnerabilities?"
8 posts
#4
Job
5 posts
#5
Ai Agent
: "How do you catch Ai Agent actions before they run?"
5 posts
#6
Worst
4 posts
#7
Websites
3 posts
#8
Vulnerability
3 posts
#9
Hard Time
3 posts
#10
Detection
: "How do you handle Suricata/Zeek tuning without a dedicated Detection engineer?"
3 posts
Products Discussed in r/AskNetsec
Password Manager
21 reviews
#1
Bitwarden
4.5★ from 10 reviews
#2
Keeper
4.0★ from 3 reviews
#3
1Password
4.0★ from 3 reviews
Siem
20 reviews
#1
LogRhythm
4.3★ from 4 reviews
#2
AlienVault
3.5★ from 2 reviews
#3
Security Onion
4.0★ from 2 reviews
Registrar
12 reviews
#1
namecheap
4.0★ from 3 reviews
#2
PorkBun
4.3★ from 3 reviews
#3
Dnsimple
5.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/AskNetsec
#1
Analysis
: "Why does our EASM inventory change so much between scans?"
20 posts
#2
Architecture
: "How do you handle revocation for offline-verifiable delegated tokens when policy state changes after issuance?"
13 posts
#3
Work
: "How do you prevent AI agents from approving their own privilege escalation?"
12 posts
#4
Threats
: "Should we all just accept we are compromised no matter what we do?"
10 posts
#5
Education
: "Do phishing simulations become less useful once employees learn what the test emails look like?"
9 posts
#6
Concepts
: "How do you prove identity controls to auditors for apps outside your IAM stack?"
9 posts
#7
Compliance
: "Assessor found 700 packages in one image and would not take reachability as an answer"
6 posts
#8
Other
: "Anyone running SOC 2 and ISO 27001 together without doubling the audit workload?"
4 posts
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+35k members(15.1%)
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Last updated: October 5, 2026