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Cybersecurity marketer, we’ve got your back! Created by the Cybersecurity Marketing Society, the Breaking Through in Cybersecurity Marketing podcast shares the stories, successes, and failures of marketers in this fast-paced and constantly changing industry. Listen to learn, laugh, and improve your cybersecurity marketing game! New episodes every Wednesday.
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Sep 10, 2025 • 40min
Beyond the CISO: How Founders Should Pitch Security Buyers
Episode Summary:
CISOs get all the cold emails, but they’re not always the ones who decide if your product lives or dies. In this episode, Rob Solomon (CrowdStrike) and Jennifer Reed (Amazon Web Services, AWS) join hosts Gianna and Maria to explain why the real buying power often sits with solution architects and security engineers.
They take us inside the AWS-CrowdStrike-NVIDIA Cyber Accelerator Program (Gianna is a mentor for the program), share how joint launches like Falcon for AWS Security Incident Response come together, and spell out what startups get wrong when pitching technical buyers. You will hear how to move past fear-based messaging, make adoption seamless, and why internal marketing matters as much as the external splash.
About the Guests
Rob Solomon is a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect – Alliances at CrowdStrike, where he designs and advises on secure, scalable cloud architectures and helps partners integrate CrowdStrike technologies into joint solutions. Follow on LinkedIn
Jenn Reed is a Principal Security Partner Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and a former Chief Information Security Officer. She works with AWS partners and customers on cloud-native security, compliance, and technical strategy, bringing firsthand experience of what resonates (and fails) when pitching security leaders. Follow on LinkedIn
🔗 Links & Resources:
CrowdStrike Press Release | Falcon for AWS Security Incident Response
Forbes | CrowdStrike and AWS Simplify Security Incident Response
AWS re Inforce 2025 | Best practices to securing AI with AWS and CrowdStrike (DAP203)
AWS Workshop | Hybrid Environments with IAM Roles Anywhere
CrowdStrike
AWS
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Sep 3, 2025 • 22min
Building Impact & Cyber Community with Debbie Sallis of the Cyber Guild
Episode Summary:
The Cyber Guild is built on community, helping people use technology to their advantage and ensuring that no one is left behind in the digital age.
In this episode, Executive Director Debbie Sallis joins Gianna to share how that mission comes to life: through three targeted events helping people professionally develop in the cyber world. They host Uniting Women in Cyber, a flagship event that feels more like an experience than a conference; Cyber Connect, which pivoted in response to federal layoffs to support professionals in transition; and RISE, a mentorship program connecting seasoned leaders with those just starting their cybersecurity careers.
With only four staff and a dedicated group of volunteers, Debbie shows how impact isn’t about scale or budget, it’s about showing up, creating space, and meeting the moment together.
This episode is about how community, not scale, drives change in cybersecurity and how you can be part of it.
About Debbie
Debbie Sallis is the executive director of The Cyber Guild, a nonprofit community advancing sustainable cybersecurity and inclusive leadership. Since 2021, she has led the Guild’s flagship programs — Uniting Women in Cyber, Cyber Connect, and RISE — building initiatives that give professionals at every stage of their careers a place to connect, grow, and lead.
In addition to her role at The Cyber Guild, Debbie contributes her expertise as an Advisory Board Member with the Technology Advancement Center (TAC), which supports open-source innovation for U.S. national security and the intelligence community, and with Evans & Chambers Technology, a D.C.-based firm that delivers secure, agile software solutions for defense and intelligence missions.
Follow Debbie on LinkedIn.
🔗 Links & Resources:
The Cyber Guild – Learn more about the nonprofit, its mission, and programs.
Uniting Women in Cyber – October 9, 2024 (Amazon HQ, Crystal City, Arlington) – Event details and registration.
Sponsorship Opportunities – Ways to support and get involved.
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Aug 27, 2025 • 35min
Building ‘Herd Immunity’ in Cybersecurity (Without Big Budgets)
Episode Summary:
For Brandon Min, building Herd Security has meant tackling two challenges at once: helping companies create a culture of security while also figuring out how to market a startup on a scrappy budget.
In this episode, he shares how Herd rethinks security awareness with micro-training that employees finish, why 90% of cyberattacks start with users, and what it takes to build “herd immunity” inside organizations. On the marketing side, Brandon walks us through testing ideas before building, finding overlooked SEO wins, and how, in his experience, a $50 guerrilla stunt brought in more leads than a trade show booth that cost 500x more.
It’s a rare look at the crossroads of security culture and startup marketing, and it offers plenty of lessons for anyone trying to build attention and trust in cybersecurity.
About Brandon:
Brandon Min is the Founder & CEO of Herd Security, a Los Angeles-based startup helping organizations build “herd immunity” against social‑engineering and AI‑driven threats through micro-training, workflow automation, and targeted simulations that engage employees.
Herd Security’s platform also addresses emerging deepfake risk with tools, including voice deepfake detection. This is part of its broader training and awareness suite and aims at a modern, user‑centric security culture.
Before launching, Brandon worked at Duo Security, supporting secure‑access deployments and bringing a hands‑on technical perspective that informs his product and go‑to‑market decisions.
Connect with Brandon on LinkedIn.
🔗 Links & Resources:
Learn more about Herd Security
WePay’s Ice Block Stunt at PayPal’s Conference - guerrilla marketing done right!
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Aug 20, 2025 • 31min
From Cisco to Startups: Leadership Lessons That Last with Sri Sundaralingam
Episode Summary:
Sri Sundaralingam has led teams at global enterprises and multiple startups in cybersecurity and enterprise software. He is now the CMO at Xage Security and has held leadership positions at Cisco, Symantec, ExtraHop, Shape Security, Mojo Networks, and Endace. He breaks down what carries over between big-company and early-stage environments and what you must relearn.
In the episode, we explore hiring for creativity vs. experience, how to test a move from individual contributor (IC) to manager before you commit, and practical ways to handle politics while keeping work moving. Sri also shares how he frames Zero Trust and other technical concepts so buyers understand the value.
Listen if you’re deciding between startup and enterprise, weighing IC vs. management, or want concrete hiring and communication tactics you can use this quarter.
About Sri:
Sri Sundaralingam is Chief Marketing Officer at Xage Security, a global leader in zero trust access, especially for critical infrastructure. His experience spans leadership roles in high-growth startups and international firms, including ExtraHop, Symantec, Shape Security, Endace, Cisco, Mojo Networks, and Juniper Networks. With a technical engineering foundation, Sri has guided teams across product management, product marketing, and corporate marketing. He’s also credited as an inventor on wireless security technology pioneered at Mojo Networks.
🔗 Links & Resources:
Follow Sri Sundaralingam on LinkedIn
Xage Security – Official Website
Meet us at CyberMarketingCon 2025!
Want the insider secrets cybersecurity marketers use? Join us December 7–10 in Austin, TX, for four days of zero-fluff workshops, real-deal networking, and maybe the best BBQ meetup you’ll ever have.
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See you in Austin, where the insights and vibes are hotter.
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Aug 13, 2025 • 36min
Inside the Ransomware Economy with Dr. Diane Janosek
Episode Summary:
Ransomware has evolved from one-off attacks to a fully operational criminal economy. Today, cybercrime groups operate with defined roles, shared infrastructure, and a growing reliance on AI to speed up intrusion, encryption, and extortion. Our guest this episode unveils insights from tracking the fraudulent side of the internet.
Dr. Diane Janosek, CEO of Janos LLC and former senior executive at the National Security Agency (NSA), joins Gianna to unpack the structure and strategy behind ransomware-as-a-service. Drawing on her background in law, compliance, and national security, including her leadership at the National Cryptologic School, she breaks down how these syndicates function, what most companies get wrong in their response, and why even well-maintained backups aren’t the safety net they once were.
We also explore how AI is accelerating the criminal kill chain, the real stats behind ransom payments (and regrets), and why ransomware is increasingly a tool of geopolitical disruption, not just financial gain.
🎬 The trailer for the film is included in this episode with permission. Courtesy of the Bold Stroke. All rights reserved. Dawn of Cyberwarfare – Produced by the Bold Stroke – Directed by Alisha Merkle & Fabrizio Dublino
🔗 Links & Resources:
The Cyber Effect by Dr. Mary Aiken
Chip War by Chris Miller
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Darknet Diaries podcast: darknetdiaries.com Recommended episode: Episode 24 – Operation BayonetArticle on King Charles’ Canada visit
More about the film here!
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About Dr. Diane:
Dr. Diane Janosek is a national security leader, cybersecurity compliance expert, and CEO of Janos LLC. With over a decade at the National Security Agency, she served as Deputy Director of Compliance, Commandant of the National Cryptologic School, and senior legal and policy advisor across the intelligence community.
She holds a Ph.D. in cybersecurity law, a J.D., and a master’s in strategic intelligence, and has worked at the intersection of law, cyber, privacy, and geopolitics throughout her career. Diane has trained thousands of cyber professionals globally, written extensively on cyber ethics and space security, and remains a leading voice on the risks posed by AI-accelerated threats and criminal enterprise models like ransomware-as-a-service.
Learn more at dianejanosek.com
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Aug 6, 2025 • 37min
Different Is Good: Why Standing Out > Being Perfect on Social
Episode Summary:
You can’t copy Maya Doron. Not just because she’ll notice (and yes, she has receipts), but because everything she does on social at Wiz is built on something AI can’t touch: chaos, specificity, and a running list of what we’re calling Maya-isms.
As Growth Marketing Manager at Wiz, Maya helps shape one of the most original brands in cybersecurity — from viral puppies and cloud cornflakes to musicals, memes, and “what’s in your tabs?” CISO interviews. In this episode, she joins Gianna to talk through what makes content real, what makes it work, and why going viral is never the goal.
They get into the problems with AI-generated blandness, the return of photos on LinkedIn, how sensory marketing taps into memory even more deeply than visuals, and what it takes to build a brand people don’t just notice — they respect.
🎧 Hit play to hear how Maya builds scroll-stopping social in the most copy-paste-prone industry online.
🔗 Links & Resources:
Watch the Wiz Puppies Campaign – yes, there are actual puppies!
Watch the Wiz April Fool’s Musical – yes, it’s a full musical!
Learn more about Wiz
Timestamps:
00:00 – Welcome and intro to Maya Deone from Wiz
01:08 – What Maya does as Growth Marketing Manager
02:36 – Social platforms, TikTok strategy, and reaching the next wave
04:06 – Filming CISOs, creating content at events, and AI tools for editing
05:49 – Maya’s favorite brand accounts: Surreal Cornflakes & Duolingo
07:59 – Wiz Easter eggs and sensory marketing tricks
09:32 – How Wiz uses AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude
10:42 – The sameness problem on LinkedIn and keeping your voice
13:27 – Making content digestible for CISOs and why shorter wins
14:33 – What performs best on social: booths, themes, and research
17:17 – The viral puppy campaign and ungated content strategy
19:24 – Creating trailer-style content and staying positive in cyber
22:21 – Social media trends to skip — and what’s working now
24:43 – The rise of raw, behind-the-scenes, and handwritten posts
25:26 – “Don’t optimize for viral, optimize for real”
27:00 – Building brand trust through consistency and giveaways
28:39 – Maya’s mantra: “Don’t post what a competitor could copy”
30:12 – What is sensory marketing? And why it sticks
33:08 – Sound, food, and April Fool’s musicals
34:13 – Where to find Maya and final thoughts
34:54 – Come to CyberMarketingCon 2025 in Austin!
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About Maya:
Maya Doron joined the Wiz team in September 2023 as the growth marketing manager. In her role, she leads the company’s social and video content strategy across platforms like YouTube, LinkedIn, and X, turning playful and bold ideas (think puppies, booth cornflakes, and musicals) into impactful campaigns that stand out in cybersecurity marketing.
Previously, Maya held digital and influencer marketing roles at companies like Vesttoo and Percepto International and brings a creative, fast-moving mindset to everything she works on.
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Jul 30, 2025 • 41min
You Can’t Cold Call the SOC: GTM Lessons from ArmorText with Matt Calligan
Episode Summary:
Matt Calligan, Director of Revenue Operations at ArmorText, joins us from Iceland to talk about what it takes to build a sales motion from scratch in cybersecurity when your product is built for moments nobody wants to think about.
As the company’s first salesperson, Matt shares how he helped ArmorText find early traction through ISACs, why the government wasn’t the buyer they expected, and how private-sector incident response teams became their core market. We dig into go-to-market lessons around timing and trust, and why most traditional sales tactics don’t work when the use case is crisis-driven.
We also discuss selling through distributors without a formal channel program, supporting marketing without a full-time team, and what happens when converting at 80% but only if the right people have heard of you.
🔗 Links & Resources:
Matt Calligan on LinkedIn
ArmorText
Learn more about ISACs: National Council of ISACs
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About Matt:
Matt Calligan is the Director of Revenue Operations at ArmorText, where he works closely with critical infrastructure organizations to support secure, out-of-band communications for cybersecurity incidents and threat sharing.
As the company’s first salesperson, Matt helped shape ArmorText’s early go-to-market motion—building traction through partnerships with ISACs and navigating complex sales cycles in highly regulated industries. He also leads strategy across sales, marketing, and channel efforts, helping the team scale without traditional org structures.
Matt brings two decades of enterprise sales experience and advises other cybersecurity startups on finding product-market fit, building revenue engines, and selling in trust-first environments.
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Jul 23, 2025 • 29min
Nobody Cares About Your Launch (Yet): How to Fix Your PR Game
Episode Summary:
Carmen Harris is the person you call when no one wants to cover your product, and she’ll tell you exactly why. Founder and CEO of Signal and Noise, she joins Gianna to break down what’s changed in cybersecurity PR and how to get attention in 2025.
We get into why the adage “product news is dead” isn’t totally true, how founders should build their brand before launch, and what makes an editor hit delete on your pitch in two seconds flat. Carmen also shares how to use the summer slowdown to reset your comms strategy, why you need to calendar-stalk your competitors, and how to get real face time with execs (even if you have to bully your way into the room).
Listen in for real-world tips you can use on your next launch or media push.
🔗 Links & Resources:
Connect with Carmen:
Carmen Harris on LinkedIn
Signal and Noise
Companies we mentioned:
Wiz – the standard for comms that lands
incident.io – a great example of product-led thought leadership
Torq – RSAC monster truck champions
Newsletters Carmen swears by:
Return on Security by Mike Privette
Resilient Cyber
Richard Stiennon on Substack
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About Carmen:
Carmen Harris is the founder and CEO of Signal & Noise, a boutique comms firm for cybersecurity and AI companies that want to be understood. She’s built a career helping technical founders translate their work into stories that land with reporters, analysts, and buyers.
She’s the one who gets the “can-you-fix-this” call mid-crisis and the “we’re-about-to-launch” call mid-chaos, and she loves both. Carmen’s not about gimmicks. She helps companies understand their market, dig into what matters, and build comms strategies that work in the real world.
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Jul 16, 2025 • 45min
You Don’t Need a Budget—You Need a Hat: Orly Bar-Lev on Lasso’s GTM
Episode summary:
“We decided that Lasso is Matthew McConaughey.”
That’s how Orly Bar Lev, Head of Marketing at Lasso Security, describes the brand she helped shape—laid back, sharp, and not trying to be like anyone else.
In this episode, Orly joins Gianna Whitver to tell the full story: how a GenAI cybersecurity startup launched out of stealth with sheriff-themed swag, a cowboy hat logo, and a Kyrgyzstan-coded website. He tells how it started and how it almost all fell apart when a sheep-centric rebrand crashed just one week before go-live.
She walked out of that moment, rewrote the pitch, and sold a new vision: the founders are the sheriffs, the product is the lasso, and the brand is the cowboy. And somehow, it worked.
This isn’t a theory-of-branding episode. It’s what happens when you do it for real, with no team, no safety net, and just enough weirdness to make it stick.
The sheep died. The hat stayed. Lasso rides.
🔗 Links & Resources:
Connect with Orly Bar Lev on LinkedInExplore Lasso Security: Official Website | LinkedIn PageWatch "Sheep Happens": Campaign Video
Dive into Lasso's Insights: Blog & Resources
About Orly:
Orly Bar Lev is the Head of Marketing at Lasso Security, where she helped take the company from stealth mode to standing out, armed with a Kyrgyzstan-coded website, a cowboy hat, and a clear mission: secure GenAI.
She’s a sharp strategist with a background in cybersecurity communications, known for turning complex GenAI risks (like prompt injection and hallucinations) into conversations that actually land with both technical teams and marketers.
She’s spoken on The Inspired Marketer podcast about balancing innovation and security in enterprise environments, which is why Lasso’s brand is part sheriffs, part swagger, and somehow still totally credible.
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Jul 9, 2025 • 38min
Metaphors, Missed Signals, and Making Cyber Make Sense with Evgeniy Kharam
Episode summary:
Security architect, podcast host, and author Evgeniy Kharam has seen it again and again: a company buys a shiny new security product, and a year later, it’s still sitting on the shelf. Not because it didn’t work, but because no one knew how to explain it, use it, or get buy-in.
That gap between buying and deploying, between knowing and communicating, is what pulled Evgeniy into his next chapter. After years in technical delivery and architecture, he realized that soft skills weren’t nice to have; they were survival tools.
In this episode, we talk about what happens when security teams can’t translate what they do, how marketers can meet them in the middle, and why metaphors (tents, dogs, houses, you’ll see) work. We get into RSA booth fatigue, Zoom call awkwardness, and what it takes to connect with someone who’s nodding along but completely lost.
Also: hummus etiquette, a three-year campaign to get Evgeniy to CyberMarketingCon, and his dream escape plan involving a shawarma truck.
🔗 Links & Resources:
🎙️ Security Architecture PodcastCo-hosted by Evgeniy Kharam and Dmitry Raidman, this podcast delves into cybersecurity architecture, offering insights into network, application, and cloud security.Listen to the podcast
📘 Architecting Success: The Art of Soft Skills in Technical SalesEvgeniy Kharam's book emphasizes the importance of soft skills in technical sales and provides strategies to enhance communication and build trust. Get the book on Amazon
🧠 Soft Skills TechEvgeniy's platform is dedicated to coaching and resources on soft skills in the tech industry. Explore Soft Skills Tech
🏢 EK Cyber and Media ConsultingA consulting firm founded by Evgeniy Kharam, offering services in cybersecurity and media for vendors and MSSPs. Visit EK Cyber and Media Consulting
📺 Interview with Evgeniy KharamAn in-depth interview exploring Evgeniy's journey and insights into cybersecurity. Watch on YouTube
About Evgeniy:
Evgeniy Kharam has worn nearly every hat in cybersecurity from firewall deployment engineer to VP of Architecture at the Herjavec Group, where he helped grow the team from 15 to over 300. Over two decades in the industry gave him a front-row seat to a recurring problem: great tech failing because no one knew how to explain it.
That realization led him to focus on something most security pros avoid talking about: soft skills. He’s now the author of Architecting Success: The Art of Soft Skills in Technical Sales, host of From Tech to Trust, and co-founder of the Security Architecture Podcast. He also moderates panels, hosts interviews, and advises on the board of the Canadian Cybersecurity Network.
Evgeniy blends technical depth with a human-first approach, whether running a ski-slope cybersecurity conference or helping vendors communicate like real people. He now leads his own consulting firm, where he guides cybersecurity companies through both architecture and storytelling.
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