Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Schneier
The 20 closest cybersecurity blog alternatives to Schneier, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 6 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Schneier? The closest matches are int08h.com, SecurityFocus and CISA. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Schneier
Schneier counterpane.com
Schneier on Security -
Summary by Claude
Counterpane.com now redirects to Schneier on Security, the personal blog of security technologist Bruce Schneier. It publishes commentary on cybersecurity, cryptography, AI security, privacy and security policy, along with essays and information about his books.
- Who it’s for
- Security professionals and readers interested in security policy
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Schneier’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Schneier
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Schneier, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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int08h
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SecurityFocus
SecurityFocus is back. Bugtraq lives again. Subscribe to the curated vulnerability disclosure mailing list.
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Home Page | CISA
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency: America's Cyber Defense Agency
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Vercel Security Checkpoint
news site about bitcoin and digital currencies, owned by Digital Currency Group
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Hackaday | Fresh Hacks Every Day
Fresh hacks every day
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heise online – IT news, guides and background information | heise online
News and forums on computers, IT, science, media and politics. Price comparison of hardware and software as well as downloads at Heise Medien.
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Vercel Security Checkpoint
Malaysian travel and location intelligence platform
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Ars Technica - Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis.
News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.
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Compliance Solutions for Websites, Apps and Organizations | iubenda
iubenda is your 360° compliance solution for global data privacy laws. Privacy policy generator, cookie consent management, ROPA, Terms and more.
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Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
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BleepingComputer | Cybersecurity, Technology News and Support
BleepingComputer is a premier destination for cybersecurity news for over 20 years, delivering breaking stories on the latest hacks, malware threats, and how to protect your devices.
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Lifehacker | Do everything better
Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.
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XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
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Home - The GitHub Blog
Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.
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Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things
Boing Boing is the Web's favorite site devoted to technology, entertainment, and culture. Launched in 1989 as a print 'zine and still...
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Bitdefender - Global Leader in Cybersecurity Software
Bitdefender is a cybersecurity software leader delivering best-in-class threat prevention, detection, and response solutions worldwide.
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
- Akamai Edge DNS
- Apple Business
- Atlassian
- Cloudflare
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Vercel Security Checkpoint
American technology news and analysis website
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datadome.co
cybersecurity company
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DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to counterpane.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Schneier uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Schneier is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-includes/
- Ecommerce
- WooCommerce page source: class="home blog wp-theme-schneier theme-schneier woocommerce
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js?ver=3.5.1
- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js?ver=3.5.1
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-includes/)
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Schneier adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on counterpane.com 18/20
- Google Workspace · not on counterpane.com 10/20
- Google Analytics · not on counterpane.com 8/20
- PHP 8/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on counterpane.com 7/20
- OpenAI · not on counterpane.com 7/20
- Apple Business · not on counterpane.com 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on counterpane.com 6/20
- nginx 6/20
- WordPress 6/20
- Atlassian · not on counterpane.com 5/20
- DocuSign · not on counterpane.com 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on counterpane.com 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on counterpane.com 4/20
- jQuery 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on counterpane.com 4/20