SecurityTrails Year in Review 2020

The year is almost over, can you believe it? And 2020 has been one heck of a year. With so many ups and downs, we can all agree to breathing a sigh of relief once its end was in sight. Yet however the year treated us, we’d like to acknowledge many good moments and memories made. As the holidays approach, let’s take a few moments to reminisce about all of 2020’s highlights for the Securitytrails team. We expanded our crew, had fun releasing numerous product updates and features, and worked hard on our blog to deliver the best infosec content out there. For a closer look, here’s what the Securitytrails team was up to during 2020: Expanding the Securitytrails team The coronavirus pandemic has brought about a lot of uncertainty and pushed the world into adopting new ways of living, both personally and professionally. Companies and individuals alike, on so many levels, have had to adjust to the norms of social distancing and working remotely. Securitytrails has been a remote-first company since the very beginning, in 2017. Our diverse and talented remote team has the freedom to work from any location in the world and enjoys the benefits of working remotely, being present for their personal lives and focusing on their growth outside of the “workplace”. While we weren’t able to go on team retreats in 2020, we always encourage our team members to grow, connect and collaborate with each other through our monthly company-wide gatherings, team-specific meetings, soft- and hard-skill courses, internal projects, competitions, and more. And now that 2020 marks the third year of our fully remote team with many lessons learned, we have continued to hire new talent from all over the world. We’ve grown from a seven-member team in our first year to a 35-member team, with individuals from all over the world: the USA, Uruguay, Germany, Serbia, Poland, Finland, Ukraine, Philippines, South Africa and Argentina. Our team saw many changes, and the end of 2020 counts eight more Securitytrails team members than we had at the end of 2019. And if you're interested in joining our diverse team, take a look at our updated Careers page. That's where you can find out more about Securitytrails culture as well as any positions we have available. Product launches and updates Who's been here since 2017? These Securitytrails website before-and-after photos speak volumes about how much we’ve changed and improved since the first version of our product. In mid-2020, we moved on from our recognizable yellow-and-black look and changed our branding and visual identity significantly. We've continued working on sometimes small, sometimes sizable, but always incremental changes to our website and products. We're always listening to valuable feedback from our users and customers and that is how we've managed to become the world's largest repository of historical DNS data. We believe that if we want to remain the trusted resource for industry leaders that we are, transparency about our data and what we do with it is crucial. To that end, you can look to our regularly updated Changelog, where we note everything our engineering team brings forth. Throughout 2020, our engineering and product teams worked relentlessly on bringing monthly improvements, updates and fixes to the console, Securitytrails API, Surfacebrowser, Securitytrails Feeds and Attack Surface Reduction. Securitytrails API Our fast and always up-to-date Securitytrails API allows security companies, researchers and teams access to current and historical data. In order to continue to empower companies and researchers with the most current DNS, IP and domain intel available, we continuously work on improving and innovating with our cybersecurity API. For the Securitytrails API, new endpoints were added throughout the year: SSL. User agent. IP Whois. Company details endpoints. Also introduced were the firehose endpoint that streams Certificate Transparency log entries we ...