Introduction

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

Starting the day

• Read emails and Slack messages. Respond to everything.

Gutcheck work

• Review each project's motivation, goals, "secret sauce", current status, and timeline to finish. Do they make sense …

Personal

• System

  • Work Laptop: Apple MacBook Pro
  • Mobile: Google Pixel
  • DJ Laptop: Apple MacBook Air

• Software/Service

  • Web browser: Brave Browser
  • Private email/calendar/drive/vpn/password manager: Proton
  • Private messaging: Signal
  • Multi-factor authentication: YubiKey
  • Writing papers: Overleaf
  • Creating figures: Inkscape
  • Paper organizer: Zotero
  • Download video/audio: yt-dlp
  • Genealogy: gramps …

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

Papers

You can find all of these on Google Scholar

• Computer security threat monitoring and surveillance (1980 …