Editorial Policy

Purpose

CyberPedia exists to make cybersecurity legible to the people responsible for defending systems. That means accuracy over speed, specificity over hedging, and usefulness over engagement.

Accuracy and sourcing

• Technical claims are verified against primary sources — vendor advisories, standards documents, source code or first-hand testing — before publication.
• We do not publish invented statistics. Where a figure is cited, it is attributed. If we cannot attribute it, we do not use it.
• Vulnerability identifiers, technique IDs and standard references are checked against the issuing body rather than reproduced from secondary coverage.
• Where reporting is developing or contested, we say so explicitly rather than projecting false certainty.

Defensive framing

Offensive technique is covered only to the depth required for defenders to detect and prevent it. We do not publish working exploit code, ready-to-run attack tooling, or operational guidance for compromising systems the reader does not own or have written authorisation to test.

Independence

• We do not accept payment for coverage, placement or favourable framing.
• No vendor, sponsor or advertiser has pre-publication review rights.
• Any commercial relationship relevant to a piece — affiliate arrangement, sponsorship, or provided hardware or licences — is disclosed within that article.
• Reviews assess what a tool or architecture genuinely does well and where it fails. A review that finds no weaknesses has not been done properly.

AI use

We are transparent about tooling. AI assistance may be used for research support, drafting and editing. Every published article is reviewed by a human who is accountable for its technical accuracy, and no article is published on the strength of a model's output alone. We do not accept unsolicited AI-generated submissions.

Corrections

• Factual errors are corrected as soon as they are confirmed.
• Substantive corrections — anything that changes a conclusion or a recommendation — are noted on the article with the date of the change.
• Typographical and formatting fixes are made silently.
• Articles updated to reflect new information carry a visible updated date.

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Unpublishing

We do not remove accurate published reporting on request. Where a legal or safety concern is raised, we will review it, and any resulting change will be recorded on the article rather than made silently.

Authorship

Articles are attributed to the editorial desk responsible for them. Each desk owns the technical review for its subject area. Attribution is never used to imply credentials the author does not hold.

Reader interest first

Where the interests of a vendor, an advertiser or our own traffic conflict with the interests of a reader trying to secure a system, the reader wins.