Collaborate on Cybersecurity Projects | CTI Community Guide
Summary
The CTI - Cyber Threat Intelligence server has launched a dedicated space for members to find collaborators for threat research, open-source tools, and lab projects. This guide outlines how to post project requests while maintaining community safety and transparency. It provides essential rules for disclosing project affiliations and compensation to ensure a secure environment for all cybersecurity professionals and researchers.
projects-collaboration is where community members can find collaborators, contributors, reviewers, and partners for cybersecurity and CTI projects.
Use this forum for things like:
- Threat research collaborations
- Open-source tools and projects
- Detection and lab projects
- Research papers and write-ups
- Conference presentations and CFP reviews
- Community resources and datasets
- Beta testing and peer review
- Finding contributors with specific skills
Tell the community what you’re working on, what kind of help you’re looking for, and what participation would involve.
Be clear about whether the project is volunteer, paid, commercial, academic, open source, or otherwise affiliated with an organization.
For member safety:
- Do not misrepresent paid or commercial work as a volunteer community project.
- Clearly disclose compensation or lack of compensation.
- Never request passwords, credentials, identification documents, financial information, or unnecessary personal data.
- Do not pressure members to move conversations into DMs or onto unfamiliar platforms.
- Be transparent about external repositories, tools, software, or files participants may be asked to use.
- Do not distribute live malware or malicious payloads through project posts.
- Disclose vendor, employer, academic, or other relevant affiliations.
If a collaboration request seems misleading, unsafe, or suspicious, stop engaging and contact the moderation team.
Completed research, tools, and projects belong in #research-showcase. Methodology and technical discussions belong in #analyst-workbench, while actual employment opportunities belong in #jobs-opportunities.
