Most vendors have a credibility problem. Buyers discount what a vendor says about its own category, so the same claim carries more weight from an analyst. Sponsors fund a paper from a published agenda and are named on it. The research is mine. The conclusions are mine. That is what makes it worth funding.
The paper names and defines the category. Your product is then positioned against that definition.
The papers are written for CISOs making an architecture decision. That means they hold up in the middle of a sales cycle as well as at the start.
Publication is supported by a campaign to 9,400+ LinkedIn followers and 2,100+ newsletter subscribers, most of them security practitioners and vendor leadership.
How AI SOC analysts make SOCless operations achievable for real enterprises. SOCless is trending and no vendor owns the narrative on how AI accelerates it. Claim: AI-SOCless Architecture.
How SIEM is splitting into ingestion, transformation, storage and analytics joined by open pipelines, and why that improves cost, performance and AI-readiness. Claim: Deconstructed SIEM Architecture.
Breaking SIEM into independent, swappable components, with reference architectures for pipeline-driven SecOps. CISOs are rejecting Frankenplatforms. Claim: Composable SecOps Architecture.
How to redesign the org chart around triage, detection, intel and platform agents. Everyone is deploying agents and nobody knows how to reorganise around them. Claim: Agentic Security Organization.
How chat-native SOC agents cut MTTD and MTTR and collapse Tier 1 into a single interface. Suits vendors with Slack or Teams integrations, and it demonstrates well. Claim: SlackOps Security.
Why data lakes are the substrate for LLM triage, enrichment and automated investigation, and what AI-ready telemetry actually requires. Claim: AI-Ready Security Data Lake.
The argument that the future SOC is an AI integration layer spanning SIEM, XDR, CTEM, CSPM and cloud. Consolidation has failed for twenty years. Claim: Universal SOC Layer.
How AI rewrites detection engineering through rule generation, noise reduction, adversarial testing and self-tuning. Detection engineering is the next overloaded discipline. Claim: Agentic Detection Engineering.
Portable rules, schema contracts, pipeline-based testing, and AI for tuning, normalisation and enrichment. Detection-as-Code is expanding and most teams lack the data layer for it. Claim: Pipeline-Native Detection Engineering.
The four phases of SOC autonomy and which technologies unlock each stage. CISOs need a roadmap and Gartner has not defined one. Claim: Autonomous SOC Framework.
One sponsor per paper. Nobody else in your category is attached to the same research.
Twelve to fifteen pages of original research and narrative. Messaging alignment with your positioning. Unlimited stakeholder review rounds. Diagrams, models and frameworks delivered in SVG. Executive summary.
A campaign across 9,400+ LinkedIn followers and 2,100+ newsletter subscribers, comprising three social posts and one newsletter placement.
Optional extensions to the sponsorship.
Webinar outline and slide deck, a live 45 to 60 minute presentation, and joint Q&A.
Eight hundred to twelve hundred words drawing out a single takeaway from the paper.
Fifty per cent on commissioning and fifty per cent on delivery. Forty-five day turnaround unless otherwise agreed. All intellectual property created becomes yours to distribute, with Cyber Futurists credited as author.
Please reach us at oliver.rochford@cyberfuturists.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
You get unlimited review rounds. If something is wrong on the facts, or misstates what your product does, I will fix it. The same goes for how your positioning is described. What I will not do is change a finding because it is inconvenient. If we disagree on a conclusion, we talk it through. If that does not settle it, you are not obliged to publish.
Then it is worth more to you. A paper that praises its sponsor is read as marketing and discounted accordingly. The papers on this agenda are built so the sponsor gains from the category being defined correctly. That advantage lasts longer than a compliment.
Yes. One sponsor per paper. Nobody else in your category is attached to the same piece of research.
Forty-five days from commissioning to delivery unless we agree otherwise. Review rounds sit inside that window.
You do. You can distribute it, gate it, translate it and repurpose it. Cyber Futurists is credited as the author, and that credit is what you are paying for.
Usually, yes. The exception is compliance, regulation and governance, which I do not cover. My focus is emerging security operations and threat management technology.
If something on the agenda fits what you are trying to say next year, the fastest way forward is a short call. Thirty minutes is enough to establish whether the topic is right and whether the timing works.