VulnU Membership · A private community for security professionals
Your team doesn’t have to be your entire network. Trade experience, share useful work, and build relationships that last beyond your next job.
$499/year or $49/month · Team memberships available
From Matt Johansen and Vulnerable U.
The newsletter reaches 38,000+ readers. Membership gives the conversation a home.
Inside the membership
A place to ask the follow-up question, hear how someone else handled it, and contribute what you know.
Buying a tool? Changing a process? Ask about the parts that never make it into the sales deck: rollout headaches, maintenance, and what people would do differently.
Go beyond the demo
What did this cost to run after the pilot?
What broke during rollout?
Would you buy it again?
02 / AI IN PRACTICE
Compare coding-agent setups, investigation workflows, and automations you’ve actually tried. What saved time? What needed fixing? How did you check the results?
Explore together
Coding agents · Detection · Investigation
Dig into prompt injection, agent permissions, and data exposure. Discuss current research and share results from authorized testing of AI applications.
Explore together
Red teaming · Defenses · Agent security
What members can share
A useful script is better when you can ask its author a question. Share your work, explain where you’ve tested it, and help each other adapt it.
Member contributions, with the context that makes them useful.
Find people through the member directory, start a direct conversation, or get to know someone over books, games, music, and the occasional pet photo.
Good professional relationships don’t have to start with a networking pitch.
Make yourself at home
Appsec · Cloud security · Threat intel · DFIR
Book club · Gaming · Pets · Touch grass
Career conversations
Ask about interviews, role expectations, and changing specialties.
Share an opening and explain the work behind the job description.
Talk consulting, startups, and finding your first customers.
There’s more to a role than its listing. Exchange career experiences, meet people in other corners of security, and learn what a different path could look like.
Browse the public job board for free. Join for the conversations around it.
VulnU newsletter issues land in the community, ready to discuss. Add a missing detail, question a claim, or explain why a story matters in your corner of the industry.
The newsletter and YouTube videos stay free.
Keep the discussion going
What does the original research actually show?
Does this change anything for your team?
What’s missing from the coverage?
Get a feel for Matt’s work before you decide.
Self-promotion belongs in shameless-plug. No unsolicited sales DMs.
Different experience levels are welcome. Challenge ideas, cite your sources, and keep confidential work private.
Join from your laptop or phone. Follow the discussions that interest you and choose your notifications.
Buying through work
Use membership to inform a tool evaluation, learn from another team’s rollout, or explore your next career step. If your company covers professional development, ask it to cover this.
Individual: $499 per year or $49 per month.
Teams: $499 per person, per year. Five seats start at $2,495.
Subject: Professional development request: VulnU Membership
I’d like to expense a $499 annual membership to VulnU, a private community for security professionals.
I plan to use it to discuss tool evaluations, learn from other practitioners, and bring relevant ideas back to our team.
Details: https://www.vulnu.com/upgrade
Can this come from my professional development budget?
Reimbursement depends on your employer’s policy. Team memberships start at five seats, with a separate account for each person.
Become a member
Choose a membership and make yourself at home. Your questions, experience, and interests all belong here.
Introduce yourself, find a topic you care about, and join the conversation. You don’t need a polished post or a hot take.
Joining with colleagues? Select Group for team seats.