USE CASE:
Reading event presence for cybersecurity companies
The job on this page is event presence for cybersecurity companies, with the options first, ours included, and the recommendation at the end. Mamba Labs builds the Apify actors named here, so Event Presence Index is something you run yourself against your own list of cybersecurity companies.
Where this starts
Cybersecurity companies and event presence: the answer is public, scattered, and nobody has time to collect it. Cybersecurity companies publish less about themselves than any other category in software, on purpose, and event presence has to work around it. Know this about cybersecurity companies before any event presence: no customer logos, no team page and no office address is a posture, not an absence of data. Event Presence Index carries 1 ready made setup for event presence on cybersecurity companies.
How we would run it
- Start with one of cybersecurity companies you already know, so a wrong event presence answer is obvious rather than plausible.
- Run Event Presence Index across your list of cybersecurity companies, which carries 1 ready made setup for event presence.
- Read ten rows of event presence on cybersecurity companies by hand before you trust the rest of the list.
Traditional Search Tools
- Conference sponsor lists, for cybersecurity companies. Free to read, and for this category they are the closest thing to a customer list.
- Ask your customers. Five calls answers this better than any dataset, and the answers include the events that are not worth attending, which no sponsor list tells you.
- Event platforms and directories. 10Times and similar list events and exhibitors. Coverage is broad, depth on who actually sponsored is thin.
- LinkedIn during the event week. People post from conferences. Watching the hashtag for a week tells you who was there and who cared enough to say so.
- Read the sponsor pages. Pick the ten events in your category, open the sponsor list for the last two years, and see who repeats. An afternoon, and the pattern is usually obvious by the third event.
Preconfigured tasks
A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.