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Your go-to-go marketplace for cybersecurity.
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TheCyberBuy - Your go-to-go marketplace for cybersecurity.

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TheCyberBuy connects businesses with trusted cybersecurity vendors, AI security specialists, and system integrators filtered by your region, vetted by our team. Now live across the UAE.

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Namaste Community πŸ™πŸ» I spent 3 years in cybersecurity consulting, presales, implementations. And in all that time, the most painful part of my job was never the technical work. It was the 2 hours before every client meeting spent across 15 browser tabs trying to answer one simple question: "Who is the right vendor or system integrator for this client, in this region, for this problem?" No central place existed. Gartner is paywalled. LinkedIn is noise. Google gives you ads. Your colleague gives you the one vendor or SI they always recommend regardless of the use case and just because they have personal connections there (if-ukyk) I was doing presales across the UAE and every time a client asked "can you recommend a good VAPT company in Abu Dhabi?" or "who does ISO 27001 implementations here?", I was manually hunting through WhatsApp groups and old business cards. That gap is TheCyberBuy. A marketplace a directory, a blog, a list where cybersecurity vendors can list their actual products, and system integrators can show their real services, real team certifications, real vendor partnerships. Filtered by region. Vetted by us. We're live in UAE and India right now with real companies listed. (Or almost live, need to work on UI ) USA, UK, and Singapore are coming next. If you're a CISO, a procurement team, or a business trying to shortlist a security vendor without wading through SEO spam then this is for you. And if you're a cyber vendor or system integrator who's tired of spending β‚Ή10L on a GITEX booth to get 3 leads list for free, right now. Would love your feedback, your questions, and your upvotes πŸ™ And if you know a CISO or security team β€” send this their way. β€” Sreeraj, Founder, TheCyberBuy

How do you actually vet the vendors, and does the filtering factor in the specific compliance standards a business needs to meet?

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Β At this stage vetting is manual and intentional. Every vendor and system integrator that applies to list goes through a review before their profile goes live. We check that the company is real and operating, that the domain email matches the organisation, that their listed services and products are legitimate, and that they are actually present in the region they claim to serve. We reject anyone who cannot verify these basics.

About the On compliance-based filtering: Not yet fully built, but it is explicitly in the roadmap and frankly one of the strongest product opportunities we have.

The MENA market is uniquely compliance-driven. A hospital in Dubai does not just need a cybersecurity vendor β€” they need one who understands ADHICS. A financial institution in Abu Dhabi needs NESA alignment. A fintech in DIFC needs DESC ISR. These are not optional considerations. They are legal requirements.

Our plan is to tag every vendor and SI profile against the compliance frameworks they have hands-on experience with : NESA, ADHICS, DESC ISR, UAE PDPL, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, IEC 62443 for OT environments etc, and others. A business will be able to filter the directory by the exact compliance standard they are trying to meet and see only the vendors and SIs who have delivered against it.

How does the vetting process actually work for the listed vendors, and is there any way to see what specific criteria they are evaluated against before I reach out to one?

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Β Every vendor and system integrator goes through a manual review before their profile goes live on TheCyberBuy. We verify that the company is real, regionally present, and that what they claim to offer matches what they actually do.

Here is exactly what we check:

Identity & Legitimacy
The company must register using a verified business domain email. We cross-check the organisation name, website, and regional presence before approval. No free email accounts. No anonymous listings.

Regional Presence
A vendor claiming UAE presence must actually operate in the UAE β€” not just have a website that ships globally. We verify this during onboarding.

Service & Product Accuracy
What a vendor lists as their products or services must reflect what they actually deliver. We flag and reject profiles that list capabilities they cannot demonstrate.

One Domain. One Account.
Each company gets one verified account tied to their business domain. This prevents duplicate or fake listings entirely.

What we do not do is (and we are transparent about this) is conduct technical audits of their products or certify their quality of delivery. But may be in future we will be adding a service review for each companies under their profile.