Transparency

Sponsorship policy

CISO Tribune is a publication whose product is being right about people. Sponsorship pays for some of it; this page says what a sponsor gets, what it never gets, and how a reader can tell the two apart.

Published October 14, 2026 by CISO Tribune. This policy is public and dated; changes are made here, with a new date.

Editorial independence

CISO Tribune decides what it publishes on editorial grounds alone. No sponsor, advertiser, vendor or partner sees content before publication, chooses what is covered, or changes a record. Money changes hands only for clearly labelled sponsorship of the newsletter, and the people who sell it have no say over what the publication writes.

Labelling

Sponsored content is marked “Sponsored” or “Sponsor” at the top, names the sponsor, and sits apart from editorial content in its own block. It is never written in the publication's editorial voice, never presented as a record, and never mixed into a list of records. The newsletter's sponsor slot is one labelled block; the rest of the issue is editorial.

What is never sponsorable

The Wire and every record on it (appointments, departures, seats, rosters); the vendor directory, including who is listed, what the entry says and where it appears; Voices; analysis and reports; interviews; the open dataset. Placement in any of these and rankings of any kind are not for sale, at any price, to anyone. A company that sponsors the newsletter gets exactly the same directory entry and the same coverage as one that does not.

Corrections

If a sponsor, a vendor or anyone else believes a published fact is wrong, the route is the corrections process: the corrections page, the correction forms, or the editorial inbox. Corrections are checked against a primary source, applied when the source supports them, and noted on the entry and on the corrections page. A sponsorship gives no faster or different route.

Conflicts and disclosure

Where the publisher has a business relationship with a company that appears in editorial content, the relationship is disclosed on the network page and, where it matters to a reader, on the entry. Vendor directory entries carry a standing disclosure until the publisher has confirmed its relationships. Sponsors are disclosed in the issue that carries them.

What is available: a labelled sponsor slot in The Briefing, our weekly newsletter. To ask about it, use the contact page (subject: Press & partnerships).