r/cybersecurity is a subreddit with 1.5M members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses cybersecurity, security, struggling, struggles, and struggle, and they frequently recommend/review edr, siem, and antivirus.
This subreddit is for discussing cybersecurity topics, research, and emergent threats/findings.
Popular Themes in r/cybersecurity
#1
Advice Requests
: "Mid-30s, stuck in web pentesting, and wondering what to do ?"
10 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Looking to move off KnowBe4, what are people actually using these days?"
6 posts
#3
News
: "The curl project will not accept or otherwise handle any vulnerability reports during the month of July 2026. "We call it the curl summer of bliss.""
4 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "I almost got “onboarded” into a malware campaign disguised as a job opportunity."
1 post
#5
Ideas
: "A side project of mine: Threat Hub - tailored threat intelligence hub to have customized threats and alerts."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/cybersecurity
#1
Cybersecurity
: "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable | TechCrunch"
122 posts
#2
Security
: "Splunk Enterprise had an unauthenticated RCE sitting in your Security stack"
57 posts
#3
Struggling
36 posts
#4
Struggles
21 posts
#5
Struggle
21 posts
#6
Ai
: "University of Toronto proof-of-concept Ai worm spread to 62% of a test network in 7 days using a free open-weight model"
16 posts
#7
Vulnerability
: "CISA gives agencies 3 days to patch maximum severity Ivanti Vulnerability"
15 posts
#8
Tool
: "small security Tools that saved me time during messy assessments"
14 posts
#9
Soc
: "Soc analyst l1"
10 posts
#10
Job
: "Wiz launches Cloud Security Job Board"
9 posts
Products Discussed in r/cybersecurity
Edr
129 reviews
#1
CrowdStrike
4.3★ from 56 reviews
#2
Microsoft
3.8★ from 21 reviews
#3
SentinelOne
3.7★ from 15 reviews
Siem
121 reviews
#1
Splunk
4.3★ from 12 reviews
#2
Wazuh
4.8★ from 9 reviews
#3
Rapid7
4.1★ from 8 reviews
Antivirus
31 reviews
#1
Microsoft Defender
4.2★ from 5 reviews
#2
CrowdStrike
4.2★ from 5 reviews
#3
SentinelOne
4.3★ from 4 reviews
Flair Used in r/cybersecurity
#1
News - General
: "AMD denies researcher a 10K bug bounty after fixing critical auto-updater vulnerability — security flaw took 124 days to patch"
51 posts
#2
Business Security Questions & Discussion
: "AI voice cloning + email = the new BEC attack we should all be worried about"
25 posts
#3
Personal Support & Help!
: "Imposter syndrome hitting hard"
17 posts
#4
Career Questions & Discussion
: "Update: 2 weeks into my new job after 5 months of unemployment, and I'm honestly the happiest I've been in years"
16 posts
#5
New Vulnerability Disclosure
: "Every employee's password was stored in a single Excel file"
14 posts
#6
News - Breaches & Ransoms
: "ShinyHunters hacked 100+ orgs by exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft 0-day"
13 posts
#7
Other
: "Fable 5 is unusable at this point"
12 posts
#8
Certification / Training Questions
: "SOC projects and certs"
11 posts
#9
Research Article
: "Old Passwords Die Hard: Abusing CREDHIST for offline credential recovery"
10 posts
#10
AI Security
: "Wiz launches Cloud Security Job Board"
8 posts
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Yearly
+242k members(19.8%)
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Last updated: June 17, 2026