Building and Automating Cybersecurity Newsletter — DevSec Selection Case Study

Krzysztof Pranczk
8 min readSep 23, 2024

Nowadays, creating an email-based newsletter is a straightforward process, as several platforms allow you to build one quickly and often for free — at least in the beginning. The main challenge is gathering valuable content and finding the time to publish it regularly. In this article, I’ll share my approach to overcoming this challenge in a unique way, using various automation tools such as n8n and OpenAI. I’ll outline my technology stack, the platforms I use, and the automations that save me significant time every two weeks. At the end of this article, you will also find some numbers related with this project.

DevSec Selection

DevSec Selection is an application security newsletter aimed at developers and security engineers, featuring links to a variety of resources and trending topics. Each link includes a brief summary. The newsletter is sent via email to subscribers, and each edition is also available on my website:

Why Did I Start This?

Initially, I started this project to keep myself updated on research, guidelines, and hot topics related to application security. Over time, I realized that this newsletter could…

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Krzysztof Pranczk

Software Engineer and Security Researcher, writing about application security in SDLC and DevSecOps - https://devsec-blog.com 🔐