Be the answer when security teams and AI research your category.
When security teams browse our directory — and when buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Claude for security tools — your listing is what they cite.
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What vendors are saying
“Since joining CybersecTools as a Featured vendor, we've seen consistent, high-quality traffic from security teams actively evaluating products. Hard to find that kind of intent-driven exposure anywhere else.”
Alon Gal
Co-Founder and CTO · Hudson Rock
“We certainly have noticed good traffic coming from CybersecTools, and the quality is good given that users are already well vested in looking to acquire new security products.”
Terry Lewis
CEO · RoboShadow
“CybersecTools.com has been invaluable for BlackStork, extending our exposure and connecting us with the right audience. It is a fundamental resource for cybersecurity professionals.”
Sergey Polzunov
Founder · BlackStork
Featured & Verified on CybersecTools
The buyer changed
The CISO you're selling to just retired.
They've been replaced by a 35-year-old who finds tools on Reddit, peer Slack channels, and CybersecTools. Cold emails get deleted on sight. Conference booths don't close deals anymore. Polished sales decks with buzzwords get laughed at in private DMs after the call ends.
If your go-to-market still leads with conferences, cold outreach, and Gartner Leader badges, you're selling to a CISO who retired five years ago.
What stopped working
- ✕
$30K–$100K RSA booths
Foot traffic, drinks, swag-grabbers
- ✕
$60K+/yr CISO dinners
Soft pitch over wine. Doesn't scale.
- ✕
$60K+/yr LinkedIn ABM
Scroll-clicks during meetings they zoned out on
- ✕
Gartner Leader badges
Laughed at in private Slack channels
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Cold email sequences
Deleted on sight
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Gated whitepapers
Last-decade B2B muscle memory
Where the next-gen buyer is
- →
Reddit, Discord, peer Slack groups
Practitioners sharing what works
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CybersecTools comparison pages
Side-by-side, peer-validated, indexed by AI
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Real engineering blog posts
Depth, not SEO-optimized ChatGPT fluff
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Their own team, not their CIO
"Have you used this? Find me alternatives."
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Problem-first conversations
Vendor as partner, not pitchman
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AI assistants citing real data
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude pull from indexed sources
Be authentic and present where the next generation is searching.
Or be invisible to half your TAM.
Why This Works
Pure Cybersecurity Audience. Zero Wasted Impressions.
Every visitor is here to research, compare, and shortlist security products. Here is what that looks like.
Traffic Sources (30 days)
Top Countries by Visitors (30 Days)
+ 177 more countries
AI Training Crawlers (30 days)
732,000
AI bot fetches per month
≈ 24,400 per day indexing our content
OpenAI training + browse
OpenAI live tool-use
Anthropic
AI bots don't send browser referrers, so they aren't in the Traffic Sources chart. These crawls feed AI training data and live answers. When a buyer asks ChatGPT for “best EDR,” the answer is shaped by what these bots indexed here.
Pricing
Choose Your Visibility
Ongoing subscriptions for sustained visibility, or custom campaigns to reach security decision-makers on your terms.
Starter
Basic listing in our directory
- Basic profile listing
- Not indexed by Google
- Not findable by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude
- No analytics dashboard
- No lead capture
- No verified badge
- No top placement
Verified
Capture leads, build trust, keep track
~52 clicks + 18,000 impressions/mo
- Everything in Starter
- Verified badge buyers actually trust
- Indexed by Google + cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity
- Priority placement on your category page (top of tool list)
- Capture leads directly from your product page
- Performance dashboard: clicks, impressions, search rankings
- Multi-product company profile
Featured
Dominate your category
~252 clicks + 44,100 impressions/mo
- Everything in Verified
- Priority placement on your category page (top of tool list)
- Featured placement in featured section on every page
- Featured placement in sidebars on every page
- Placement on competitor /compare + /alternatives pages
- Direct-to-website clicks (~25% CTR boost)
- Dedicated account manager
Featured Plus
Be at the top everywhere.
Capped at 3 exclusive spots
- Everything in Featured
- Top placement in featured section on every page (above all Featured)
- Top placement in sidebars on every page (above all Featured)
- Top position on weekly digest emails to 3,906 subscribers
- Dedicated email blast to 3,906 CybersecTools subscribers (launch boost)
- Founder-led LinkedIn post — 15,000+ reach (launch boost)
- Quarterly category intelligence report (COMING SOON)
Full comparison
Compare every feature
Side-by-side breakdown of what's included in each plan. Annual billing = 2 months free.
Custom Campaigns
Not ready for a subscription?
Run a one-off campaign instead. Pay-per-click, newsletter sponsorship, or a LinkedIn push — whichever fits your launch moment.
Click Ads
Pay only for clicks to your website.
$100 minimum, no subscription needed
How Click Ads compare
- Sponsored placements site-wide
- Category and comparison pages
- Competitor product pages
- Sidebar across the site
- Interactive market map
- Track clicks from your dashboard
- UTM parameters on all outbound links
Newsletter Sponsorship
CybersecTools
Reach 3,906 cybersecurity professionals — CISOs and security teams in our weekly newsletter.
- Single, double, or quad-issue placements
- UTM-tracked links
- Matching to the right audience
LinkedIn Campaigns
Sponsored thought leadership
Reach 15,000+ security professionals on LinkedIn through founder-led posts, sponsored content, and curated launch announcements.
- Single posts or multi-week campaigns
- Custom angles for launches and announcements
- UTM-tracked links to your website
Security Teams Are Searching Right Now
Every cybersecurity product belongs in our database. Submit yours for free and let security teams find you. Upgrade when you are ready for more visibility.
“Hard to find that kind of intent-driven exposure anywhere else.” — Alon Gal, CTO at Hudson Rock
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about listing and promoting your product.
Free listings go live after editorial review, typically within 2 weeks. Verified and Featured plans include 1-day launch, so your listing goes live within 24 hours of submission.
Any cybersecurity product: SaaS platforms, open-source tools, managed services, and hardware appliances. The product must be focused on cybersecurity. We do not list generic IT tools, fintech, blockchain, or military/defense products.
CybersecTools is the only directory built exclusively for cybersecurity. Every visitor is evaluating security products. We cover 10,000+ tools across 16 security-specific categories with NIST CSF 2.0 mapping, something horizontal directories cannot offer.
Verified listings display a green checkmark that signals to security buyers that the vendor has been vetted. It builds immediate trust during the evaluation process, similar to how verified badges work on social platforms.
Featured Plus is our highest tier, capped at 3 vendors site-wide. On top of everything in Featured, Plus vendors occupy the top 3 reserved spots in every featured section and sidebar across the site — always above Featured customers. You also get top positioning on every weekly digest email, a quarterly category intelligence report for your sales decks and analyst conversations, plus a one-time launch boost: a dedicated email blast to our subscribers and a founder-led LinkedIn post to a 15,000+ cybersec audience.
Plus has a hard global cap of 3 active vendors. If all 3 slots are taken when you try to upgrade, we won't charge you — instead we'll add you to a waitlist and notify you the moment a slot opens. Existing Plus vendors can be displaced only by their own choice (downgrade or churn), not by a higher bid.
Yes. You can start with a free listing and upgrade to Verified, Featured, or Featured Plus at any time from your account dashboard. If you want to downgrade, your current plan runs until the end of the billing period.
Click Ads are pay-per-click placements across the site: category pages, comparison pages, competitor product pages, tool detail pages, sidebar, and the market map. You prepay a budget ($100 minimum, $4 per click) and your ads run until the budget is fully spent. No monthly management needed.
Two ways. First, you can track clicks directly from your account dashboard on CybersecTools. Second, all outbound clicks include UTM parameters (utm_source=cybersectools.com, utm_medium=cpc, utm_campaign=cpc-ad) so you can track CybersecTools traffic in your own analytics (Google Analytics, Plausible, etc.) and measure downstream conversions on your side.