USE CASE:
Getting identity resolution right for cybersecurity companies
What follows is the honest set of ways to get identity resolution on cybersecurity companies, including the ones that are not ours. Mamba Labs writes Apify actors for work like this, and Company Identity Resolver is the one that reads cybersecurity companies.
Where this starts
Cybersecurity companies complicate identity resolution, for a reason specific to them. Start from this: cybersecurity companies publish less about themselves than any other category in software, on purpose, and identity resolution follows. What catches people out on cybersecurity companies, identity resolution included: no customer logos, no team page and no office address is a posture, not an absence of data. If you would rather try it than read about it, Company Identity Resolver does identity resolution for cybersecurity companies today.
Why it matters
Deduplicating cybersecurity companies by name fails because the names differ, and by domain fails because a third of them carry no domain.
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.
- Your CRM's merge suggestions. Salesforce and HubSpot both offer them. They are conservative by design, so they catch exact matches and miss the interesting cases.
- Dedupely, Insycle or a dedupe tool. Built for exactly this and worth the money if the mess lives entirely inside one CRM. Less useful when the duplicates arrive from four different sources.
- A resolution key of your own. Pick one identifier, usually the primary domain, and make every source write it. The cheapest long term fix and the one nobody wants to do.
- Sort and read. Sort by name, read the list, merge what you recognize. It is tedious and a person is genuinely good at it, up to a few thousand rows.
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.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
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- Company Identity Resolver1 preconfigured task on this page's job.