Submission Guidelines for The SG Tech Diaries

Share your real-world experience in cybersecurity, enterprise infrastructure, and IT operations.

The SG Tech Diaries is a technical publication focused on practical knowledge, real-world troubleshooting, system architecture, cybersecurity, enterprise infrastructure, and modern IT operations.

We publish experience-driven stories that help technology professionals understand complex systems, solve difficult problems, and make better technical decisions.

Our goal is not to repeat vendor documentation. We want to publish articles that explain how systems behave in real environments, what can go wrong, and how problems can be diagnosed and resolved.

What We Publish

We welcome original stories covering topics such as:

• Cybersecurity, SIEM, SOC operations, and detection engineering
• Wazuh, endpoint security, vulnerability management, and threat monitoring
• Enterprise infrastructure and system architecture
• Citrix, VDI, DaaS, RDSH, and digital workspace technologies
• Microsoft Windows Server, Active Directory, Exchange, and PowerShell
• VMware, virtualization, backup, disaster recovery, and high availability
• Network security, firewalls, application delivery, and remote access
• Cloud infrastructure, hybrid environments, and identity management
• Monitoring, observability, performance analysis, and capacity planning
• Automation, scripting, implementation guides, and technical comparisons
• Root cause analysis and real-world troubleshooting
• Technical case studies, lessons learned, and post-incident reviews

Stories should provide practical value to engineers, administrators, architects, consultants, and cybersecurity professionals.

What Makes a Good Submission

A strong submission should:

• Address a clear technical problem or topic
• Explain the architecture, environment, or background
• Describe the troubleshooting or implementation process
• Include commands, configurations, diagrams, or examples where relevant
• Explain why a solution worked or failed
• Highlight important risks, limitations, or lessons learned
• Be understandable to readers who may not know the environment
• Be based on real experience, research, or verified technical information

We especially value stories that go beyond basic installation steps and explain how technologies behave in production environments.

Content Requirements

Submitted stories must:

• Be original and written by the submitting author
• Be technically accurate
• Include a clear title and subtitle
• Use headings and readable paragraphs
• Include sources for external claims, statistics, and security advisories
• Disclose relevant vendor, employer, sponsorship, or commercial relationships
• Use screenshots, diagrams, and images only when the author has permission to publish them
• Remove passwords, credentials, customer names, personal information, and confidential data
• Explain commands, scripts, and configuration examples clearly
• Follow Medium's rules and content policies

Stories should currently be written in English.

What We Do Not Accept

We do not accept:

• Plagiarized or copied content
• Low-effort or unedited AI-generated articles
• Purely promotional product announcements
• Press releases rewritten as technical articles
• Link-building or SEO spam
• Undisclosed affiliate content
• Misleading security claims
• Unverified vulnerability reports
• Malicious code intended to compromise systems
• Content that exposes customer or company information
• Articles copied directly from product documentation
• Content that violates Medium's rules

AI tools may be used for editing, research assistance, grammar, translation, or structure.

However, the author remains fully responsible for the originality, accuracy, security, and technical quality of the final article.

Protect Confidential Information

Before submitting, make sure that your story does not include:

• Real usernames or passwords
• API keys, tokens, or certificates
• Public or private IP addresses that should remain confidential
• Internal domain names
• Customer names
• Personal information
• Confidential screenshots
• Proprietary source code
• Sensitive network diagrams
• Information protected by an NDA or employer policy

Use anonymized names, sample addresses, and fictional environments when necessary.

How to Submit

To submit a story to The SG Tech Diaries:

1. Follow The SG Tech Diaries on Medium.
2. Open the story you want to submit.
3. Select the three-dot menu in the Medium editor.
4. Choose Submit to publication.
5. Select The SG Tech Diaries.
6. Submit your story for editorial review.

Unpublished drafts are preferred.

Previously published Medium stories may also be considered when they remain relevant and meet our editorial standards.

Editorial Review Process

Submissions are reviewed for:

• Technical accuracy
• Originality
• Practical usefulness
• Clarity and structure
• Relevance to the publication
• Security and confidentiality
• Compliance with Medium's rules

Editors may make minor changes to:

• Formatting
• Grammar
• Spelling
• Titles and subtitles
• Headings
• Tags
• Image placement

For major changes, the story may be returned to the author with editorial feedback.

Submission does not guarantee publication.

Stories may be declined when they are outside the publication's scope, lack technical depth, contain unverifiable claims, or do not meet our editorial standards.

Author Responsibility

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their stories do not violate:

• Copyright laws
• Confidentiality agreements
• Employer policies
• Customer agreements
• Software licenses
• Security policies
• Applicable laws and regulations

By submitting a story, the author confirms that they have the necessary rights and permissions to publish all included text, code, screenshots, diagrams, and images.

Join The SG Tech Diaries

The SG Tech Diaries is built for professionals who want to share what really happens behind enterprise systems.

Whether you are documenting a difficult incident, explaining an architecture, sharing a PowerShell automation, analyzing a security event, or describing a lesson learned from production, your experience can help someone else solve the same problem.

Thank you for contributing to The SG Tech Diaries.