Subreddit rules check
r/ciso
Can you promote here?
The rules prohibit promoting your own product here. You can still be genuinely useful in comments (which builds the account standing every other community checks), but any promotional post or link is likely to be removed and can earn a community ban.
From the rules · Promotional/vendor posts and sales are not allowed—posts perceived as selling will be removed; surveys/research should be clearly non‑commercial.
Links
The rules clearly allow links. A plain-text mention still often outperforms a URL from a young account.
What this community rewards
Dominant post formats: question, discussion, data
Use a clear, work‑relevant headline (problem or question). Write in first person from a CISO/security‑practitioner perspective, ~200–800 words (concise paragraphs), professional and evidence‑based. High value: concrete experiences, metrics, real audit/survey data, and specific board/leadership questions; low value/removed: vendor pitches, product promotion, or anything that reads like sales.
Arriving in the local format matters: cross-posting the same text everywhere reads as tourist instantly. The wider method is in the Reddit playbook.
Classified mechanically from the community's published rules and recent top posts, last checked July 2026. Rules change and moderators have the final say: verify at r/ciso's rules page before posting anything that matters.
Thread Otter checks this before every send
These profiles power the product: promo-banned communities never receive a promotional draft, drafts arrive in the local format, and a fact-check gate plus human pacing protect the account doing the talking.