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Meet Michael
Michael is an IT Professional since the late nineties. Like you, he hates spam and will never use your email address other than getting this newsletter. Email addresses are stored encrypted. No other information is collected.
After years of manually checking dozens of vendor blogs, security bulletins, cloud platform updates, and IT news feeds every week, Michael created SysBrief to solve his own problem: staying informed without the noise.
What started as a personal script to aggregate IT infrastructure news has grown into a curated newsletter trusted by system administrators who need to stay ahead of patches, cloud changes, security incidents, and DevOps trends—without wasting hours hunting for updates across multiple platforms.
Our Privacy Promise
Your privacy is non-negotiable. We only collect your email address, and it's encrypted in our database. We never share, sell, or use your email for anything other than delivering the newsletter you signed up for. No tracking pixels. No analytics on who opens what. Just clean, curated IT infrastructure and security news—three times a week.
Why SysBrief Exists
No Spam, Ever
Only three weekly emails (Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays). With some minimal and non agressive partners links within the newsletter from time to time
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Your email is encrypted at rest. We collect nothing else. Unsubscribe anytime with one click.
Sysadmin-Focused
Curated for real infrastructure work—cloud updates, CVEs, Kubernetes releases, database patches, and security incidents.
Built by Sysadmins
Not a marketing team. Just an IT pro who understands what matters when you're managing multi-cloud infrastructure.
How We Curate Content
SysBrief aggregates from 100+ official sources including:
- Cloud Platforms — AWS, Azure, GCP official blogs, product updates, and service announcements
- Security Advisories — Official CVE bulletins, vendor security alerts, and critical patches
- Infrastructure & DevOps — Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible release notes and updates
- Operating Systems — Linux distributions, BSD updates, and open source project releases
- Databases & Enterprise — PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle, SAP announcements
- Trusted Security Sources — BleepingComputer, Krebs on Security, The Record, Dark Reading
Every item is automatically filtered for infrastructure and security relevance, then categorized so you get what matters—without the fluff.
Questions or Feedback?
Have suggestions for content sources? Found a bug? Just want to say hi? Contact us — we'd love to hear from you.