The Cybersecurity AEO Playbook: How Security Vendors Get Cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude

This blog post presents a cybersecurity-specific Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) playbook, arguing that AI answer engines treat security content as higher-stakes and require stricter corroboration. It defines three buyer personas (security engineer, procurement/compliance, CISO), identifies four content formats that attract AI citations (comparison pages, category roundups, technical explainers, structured trust-center data), outlines a measurement methodology across AI platforms, and provides a prioritized 90-day action plan for vendors to increase their AI citation share.