How I Built a Fully Automated Cybersecurity Intelligence Platform for $2/Month

Over the years, working with CISOs and IT leaders organizing cybersecurity events, I kept hearing the same problem — too much noise, not enough signal. Security teams were spending their mornings piecing together what matters from dozens of feeds, newsletters, and dashboards before they could even start their actual work. So I built defend.network — a free platform that publishes daily threat briefings and weekly vulnerability reports. Every briefing is structured, categorized, and paired with action checklists so a security team can scan it in 5 minutes and know exactly what to prioritize. The whole thing runs fully automated for about $2-3/month. No manual intervention. No database. No framework. Here's how I built it. The Architecture I wanted the simplest possible stack that could still produce a professional, fast, SEO-friendly platform. The answer turned out to be: no stack at all. defend.network is a static site on Netlify's free tier . Pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No React.