Introduction

This post discusses my workflows. I am sharing it in case it is helpful for others to read.

Every Day

Administrative

• Read unread emails and unread Slack messages. Respond to everything.
• Check personal goals and their progress for the year.

Gutcheck Projects

• Review each project's motivation, goals, "secret sauce …

Personal

• Web browser: Brave Browser
• Email/Calendar/Drive/VPN/Password manager: Proton
• Private messaging: Signal
• Multi-factor authentication: YubiKey
• Transcriber: MacWhisper
• Creating demos: OSB Studio
• Writing papers: Overleaf
• Writing assistant: Grammarly
• Creating figures: Inkscape
• Paper organizer: Zotero
• Feed reader: Feedly
• Time shifting: Timeshifter
• Download video/audio: yt-dlp
• Genealogy: gramps
• Tor: Tor …

This is a good website for lots of general cybersecurity datasets: http://www.secrepo.com/

Malware Samples

• Large dataset: https://github.com/sophos/SOREL-20M
• Malware from 2010-today: https://www.vx-underground.org/

Gathering Data

• Static features for PE malware classification: https://github.com/elastic/ember
• Dynamic features for clustering PE malware …

Read these first

• How to read a paper (2007)
• How (and how not) to write a good systems paper
• Writing a Problem Statement
• Writing a Thesis Statement
• Research as a Stochastic Decision Process
• Precision and Recall
• Fallacies
• Undecidability

Papers

You can find all of these on Google Scholar

• Computer security …