Every giveaway entry and every crate that lands on a desk can become a post, a clip, a scenario other people run. Submit it, get entries and rarity items for it, and see it go out across the CISO Marketplace network with your handle on it.
Same chat, same tags, same rewards. The giveaway feeds the crate and the crate feeds next year's giveaway.
31 days at cyberaware.win: free draw for the NitroPhone, guaranteed shop rewards with code CYBERAWARE26, and a judged skill contest. Community milestones unlock more prizes for everyone.
One security build a month in four tiers, with a ciso.diy guide and a live-build episode. Numbered patches never reprinted, a 1-in-20 golden ticket at no extra cost, and a crate thread that opens the day it ships.
Your first submission earns +25 free entries in the NitroPhone draw, and every submission competes for Submission of the Week. Approved pieces earn more and get published with your handle. Post publicly with #CyberAwareWin plus a topic tag, then paste the link here.
Screenshot a phishing message you caught or reported (blur names, links and anything personal), post it with #CyberAwareWin, and submit the link as a Weekly challenge.
| Type | Ideas | Tags | Earns in October |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly challenge (photo / screenshot) | The week's quick prompt: spot the AI phish, your callback rule, your passkeys, game day | #CyberAwareWin | +1 when approved |
| 60-second tip (vertical video) | One habit, one fix, one scam to spot: passkeys, MFA, phishing, deepfakes, updates, privacy | #60SecTip | +2 when approved |
| Setup tour (photo or video) | Home lab, local AI rig, smart home, smart office, desk, a cool new security gadget, and how you locked it down | #HomeLab #LocalAI #SmartHome #SecurityGadgets | +1 photo / +2 video · best setup featured |
| Teardown (video or write-up) | Take apart a device, app, smart-home hub, router, AI tool or policy you own: what's inside, what you found | #Teardown | +2 when approved · standout teardowns on the podcast |
| Tabletop scenario (1 page, 3 injects) | Ransomware at a clinic, a deepfake CFO call, a poisoned AI model, a lost laptop | #TabletopSec | +2 when approved · standout scenarios on tabletopsec.com with credit |
| DIY guide (steps + photos) | A security build anyone can follow: a Pi-hole, a hardened router, a local AI assistant, a family password plan | #CISODIY | +2 · best guides published on ciso.diy with credit |
| Poster or tee design | An awareness poster, t-shirt or sticker: a slogan, a meme, a diagram that sticks | #SecurityByDesign | +2 · best designs printed on securitybydesign.shop with credit |
| Awareness talk (slides or recording) | A lunch-and-learn, a school session, a meetup talk, a family "scam night" | #CyberAwareWin | +2 · best talk featured on the podcast |
Tag us so we find it: @cisomarketplace on X, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn and Pinterest · @securitybydesign or #SecurityByDesign on Instagram · always add #CyberAwareWin.
Host videos on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or video.cyberadx.network and paste the link. Documents: a Google Doc, Notion page or PDF link with view access.
Submitting is free and always counts for the giveaway. If you want more, two programs run all year. Joining is separate from the giveaway and never changes your entries.
Designers, writers, video makers. Your posters, tees and stickers on securitybydesign.shop, your build guides on ciso.diy, your tabletops on tabletopsec.com, sold with your name on them and a revenue share on every sale. Standout and winning submissions get an invitation.
Creator program →Have an audience that cares about security? Earn commission on CISO Marketplace and CyberAdX products you share: ciso.diy kits, policies, memberships and more, tracked through the CyberAdX network.
Affiliate program →Promoting anything you earn from? Say so in the post (#ad or "affiliate link"). That's the FTC's rule and every platform's.
None of this is for sale. The only way to get it is to show up.
Your first submission in October earns +25 free entries in the NitroPhone draw. After that, every approved submission adds entries to the October draw or the crate's golden-ticket pool. Free entry has the same odds per ticket as any other.
Milestones add prizes to the pool for all. Giveaway: 250 · 500 · 750 · 1,000 emails. Crate: 100 · 250 · 500 subscribers, plus one golden ticket per 50 published submissions.
3 months of builds posted → the streak patch. 6 → the NFC tabletop piece. 12 → your handle on the year plate. Numbered, never reprinted.
Photo 1 · video 3 · featured 5 · mod adopted 10. Top scorer gets next month's crate free and a segment on the episode. Judged entries scored 40 accuracy / 30 useful / 30 clear.
The community lives on infrastructure we own. Social is where the clips go, not where the conversation lives.
#show-and-tell · #tabletop · #teardowns · #help-me-build · one #crate-NNN per crate, open 30 days from ship day. In October, #giveaway.
Every clip we publish lives here first, then goes to YouTube, TikTok and OpenVideo. Your piece has a permanent home that isn't rented.
CISO Insights reads winners daily. CISO Marketplace on YouTube, TikTok and Pinterest; SecurityByDesign on Instagram for desk shots and merch; roundups on the blogs; a weekly digest in cyberbrief.news.
| Oct 1–31 | Giveaway · rolling bonus-code easter eggs in podcast episodes, videos, articles and posts · contest closes Oct 28 · draw Nov 5, live on the podcast |
| Nov 1 | Shelf boxes on sale · #giveaway becomes #crate-general · Desk Kit desk-shot challenge |
| Dec 1 | Crate #001 ships · #crate-001 opens · golden-ticket seed posted · Build of the Month opens |
| Monthly | Entries close the 25th · winner read on the first episode of the next month · leaderboard resets |