Sentrly
Independence
Sentrly maintains a strict editorial firewall. Advertisers and affiliate partners have no input into the topics we cover, the conclusions we reach, or the language we use. No payment is accepted in exchange for coverage.
Fact-checking
Every guide is reviewed by a second editor before publication. We check claims against vendor documentation, peer-reviewed sources, and reproducible primary tests where possible. The publication and last-updated dates are visible at the top of each article.
Sourcing
We prefer primary sources: vendor documentation, technical specifications (RFCs, IETF drafts), academic publications, and government cybersecurity advisories. We avoid secondary blogs as primary sources.
Corrections
When we make a factual error we correct it transparently and note the correction at the bottom of the article. To request a correction, email us with “Correction” in the subject line.
Author guidelines
Contributors disclose any financial relationships with companies they cover. Articles include the author’s real name and a short bio. Pseudonymous bylines are not permitted.
AI use
Editors at Sentrly may use AI tools for research, drafting outlines, or copy-editing. Final versions are reviewed by a human editor. We do not publish wholly machine-generated articles.
Whether a draft was AI-assisted or human-only, every article is checked against the same rubric before publishing: accuracy of every factual claim, originality of explanations, real-world helpfulness, and safety of any advice. We verify sources, exclude fabricated statistics, exclude tools or features the AI may have hallucinated, and refresh anything that was current at training time but is now outdated — pricing, plan names, and product positioning especially.
We will not publish content that promotes or facilitates illegal use of VPNs or proxy services, hacking, piracy, credential theft, malware distribution, scraping at scale that violates a site's terms, spam, or any activity that targets a specific person or group. AI assistance does not change this rule — the editor signing off on the article is responsible for it the same way they would be for a human-only draft.
Pre-publication checklist
Every article passes the same 13-point check before going live: clear primary search intent, answers the user's question, original explanation, quick-answer block, FAQ block, structured headings, internal links to related guides, vendor or primary-source links where relevant, schema markup, meta title and description, no copied content, claims supported by sources, and beginner-friendly language for the lead. The checklist is part of our content-management workflow; an article cannot be marked 'published' without each item passing.