Medium “Cybersecurity” tag statistics
How busy the Cybersecurity tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is high, and the tag is friendly for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 5.6 days
Busier than 73% of 73 tracked tags
42% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 143 stories a day, Cybersecurity is busier than 73% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (14,918 followers per daily story) is higher than 27% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
74% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 42% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 24% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 6.5 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Cybersecurity stories
| Publication | Followers | Cybersecurity stories (last 5.6d) |
|---|---|---|
| MeetCyber | 4.1K | 24 |
| Level Up Coding | 367K | 11 |
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 9 |
| Stacker News | 6 | 7 |
| Skill Stuff | 1.4K | 7 |
| OSINT Team | 21K | 7 |
| Coinmonks | 145K | 6 |
| Tech and AI Guild | 272 | 4 |
| Predict | 116K | 4 |
| Towards AI | 151K | 3 |
Top Cybersecurity stories right now
- The 10.5 Trillion Dollar Threat: The New Cyber Attack Patterns Dominating the Economy
- Protect Your Privacy When Using AI Tools.
- Researchers Looked Inside a Running AI Model. What They Found Was Stranger Than Anyone Expected.
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and NAT
- Your Closed-Source App Is No Longer Safe.
- When AI Learns to Replicate: The Coming Age of Autonomous Digital Organisms
- North Korea Stole $6.75 Billion in Crypto. Nobody Picked a Lock.
- Google Dorking in 8 Practical Searches
- Everyone Is Watching Chinese Cars Win Europe. Nobody Is Asking What Any Maker Can Still Switch Off.
- I Tracked a Scammer For 72 Hours. It Got Personal.
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Cybersecurity tag on Medium?
- About 143 per day (998 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 5.6-day window before our last scan. The tag has 172,154 stories in total.
- Is the Cybersecurity tag competitive?
- Competition is high: it is busier than 73% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 14,918 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Cybersecurity?
- 42% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is friendly for newcomers. 74% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.