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Company blog · goldfiglabs.com/blogsecuritystartups

Gold Fig is the company blog at goldfiglabs.com, writing about security and startups. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “The SaaS CTO Security Checklist Redux”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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13mentions?
7HN people?
2019–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Gold Fig's security checklists, for SaaS CTOs, DevOps and personal infosec, as practical starting points for startups and individuals.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. The SaaS CTO Security Checklist Redux
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-06-06
  2. The Personal Infosec and Security Checklist (July, 2021)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. My company, Gold Fig( https://goldfiglabs.com ), is working on something just adjacent to annotating webpages: we enable you to annotate changes you make on the web. Since so much of our work is powered by online platforms, we wanted a way to keep track of changes we were making in the tools we were using. Similar to how you would annotate a code change with a commit message, you should be able to annotate a CMS cha…

    Comment linking /

    on “How to annotate everything”
  2. Submitted The SaaS CTO Security Checklist Redux as a story · 395 points

    HN discussion
  3. westurner · 2022-04-04Recommends
    Also good: "The SaaS CTO Security Checklist [Redux]" https://github.com/vikrum/SecurityChecklists "The Personal Infosec & Security Checklist" https://www.goldfiglabs.com/guide/personal-infosec-security-... "The DevOps Security Checklist Redux" https://www.goldfiglabs.com/guide/devops-security-checklist/ ... Years ago, I helped develop a checklist app for a hospital (in Python and JS at the time). TIL checklists usua…

    Comment linking /guide/devops-security-checklist/

    on “The Personal Security Checklist”
  4. Submitted The Personal Infosec and Security Checklist (July, 2021) as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  5. sandstrom · 2021-11-04Recommends
    Some items where alright, but I agree with what tptacek wrote elsewhere in this thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29102385 ). Another list that I think is better for most startups: https://www.goldfiglabs.com/guide/saas-cto-security-checklis...

    Comment linking /guide/saas-cto-security-checklist/

    on “Minimum Viable Secure Product”
  6. Submitted Carrying the torch of the Sqreen SaaS CTO security checklist: infosec basics as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. "The Personal Infosec & Security Checklist" https://www.goldfiglabs.com/guide/personal-infosec-security-... Internet safety, DNS security, https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/kids #internet-safety #family-media-plan #screen-time-guidelines Rclone supports encryption over top of like every cloud storage provider; and then what js could hit delete and confirm on our cloud storage, resulting in starting over from z…

    Comment linking /guide/personal-infosec-security-checklist/

    on “Ask HN: Do you manage your family's digital safety?”
  8. Submitted When should my startup prioritize infosec? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30906310 : > "The SaaS CTO Security Checklist [Redux]" https://github.com/vikrum/SecurityChecklists > "The Personal Infosec & Security Checklist" https://www.goldfiglabs.com/guide/personal-infosec-security-... > "The DevOps Security Checklist Redux" https://www.goldfiglabs.com/guide/devops-security-checklist/

    Comment linking /guide/devops-security-checklist/

    on “Ask HN: IT Security Checklist for Startups?”
  10. - https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/sqreen-assets/whitepapers... - https://www.goldfiglabs.com/guide/saas-cto-security-checklis...

    Comment linking /guide/saas-cto-security-checklist/

    on “Ask HN: IT Security Checklist for Startups?”
  11. Any one of these three might be what you were thinking of: * https://mvsp.dev/mvsp.en/index.html * https://www.goldfiglabs.com/guide/saas-cto-security-checklis... * https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/03/12/the-soc-starting.html

    Comment linking /guide/saas-cto-security-checklist/

    on “Ask HN: Searching for a SaaS/Startup Security HN Post”

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