r/Information_Security

45k members
r/Information_Security is a subreddit with 45k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses cybersecurity, ai, it security specialists, infosec, and ai agent.
Information security news, questions, analysis, and blog posts.

Popular Themes in r/Information_Security

#1
Solution Requests
: "What are the best AEV solutions people are actually using?"
11 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Anyone have a real breach story involving AI tools?"
5 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "I built a WHMCS module that doesn't just monitor server attacks — it automatically reacts to them"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/Information_Security

#1

Cybersecurity

: "A Cybersecurity company's own employee got socially engineered last week, and the attackers taunted them publicly about it"
9 posts
#2

Ai

: "Board asked for a number on our shadow Ai exposure and i couldnt give one"
7 posts
#3

It Security Specialists

3 posts
#4

Infosec

2 posts
#5

Ai Agent

: "Best Ai Agent observability and monitoring platform once you're orchestrating 3+ agents?"
2 posts
#6

Shadow Ai

: "Board asked for a number on our Shadow Ai exposure and i couldnt give one"
2 posts
#7

Ai Assurance

: "Ai Assurance Now Has Two Objects: The Answer and the Actor"
2 posts
#8

Social Engineering

: "ShinyHunters taunts ReliaQuest after its own employee falls for Social Engineering attack"
2 posts
#9

Chrome

: "Chrome 152 patched 327 vulnerabilities, 299 of them found internally by Google. Is that as bad as it looks?"
2 posts
#10

Vulnerabilities

: "Chrome 152 patched 327 Vulnerabilities, 299 of them found internally by Google. Is that as bad as it looks?"
2 posts

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Yearly
+16k members(54.3%)

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Last updated: September 7, 2026