Information Security Marketing Insider
I hope you are winning this week!
Here’s your weekly update on comings and goings, jobs, networking opportunities and actionable insights:
These are the most recent appointments and promotions of your cybersecurity sales peers. Say “CONGRATS!”🥂 to:
→ Adam Berlew was appointed as Chief Marketing Officer at Equinix.
→ Don Donzal was appointed as Chief Marketing Officer at TCM Security.
→ Neelam Sandhu was appointed as Chief Marketing Officer at Blackberry.
→ Tara Ryan was appointed as Chief Marketing Officer at Saviynt.
→ Michael Krutikov was appointed as VP of Global Marketing at Futurex.
→ Megan Scofield was appointed as VP Marketing at Picus Security.
→ Umang Barban was appointed as VP Marketing at Balbix.
→ Amit Nair was appointed as SVP Marketing at Cohesity.
Appointed? Promoted? Let us know!
Do you have a story to tell? How you succeeded in your career, what makes your company awesome, how cybersecurity sales world is changing, what is working and what is not?
We’d love to host you! Please respond to this email with "interview" in the subject and we will set it up.
Meanwhile, check out a recent interview with Jennifer Leggio, Chief Marketing Officer, Netography:
Our dance card is filling up fast. So, if interested in building up your personal brand and sharing your story, respond today.
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Our post from the the “Ways to Trigger a CISO” series is blowing up on LinkedIn at the moment:
5 ways to trigger a CISO if you are a colleague:
1. “Seriously, how hard can it be? You just…”
--- (by any colleague outside the infosec team)
2. “We accept the risk…”
--- (business unit with rudimentary understanding of cybersecurity)
3. “By the way, we are launching this new product on Monday. Can you do your security thing over the weekend?..”
--- (Product team on Thursday night)
4. “I understand your request but it is not in the budget. Do more with less…”
--- (CFO)
5. “This looks weird…”
--- (your SOC team on a Friday night)
What is #6?
These senior cybersecurity marketing roles you may want to forward to your friends and colleagues:
→ Check Point is looking for a Head of US Field Marketing in Dallas, TX.
→ Zscaler is looking for a Director, Integrated Marketing in San Jose, CA.
→ SecurityScorecard is looking for a Head of Competitive Intelligence (remote).
→ Palo Alto Networks is looking for a Head of Marketing, Japan in Tokyo, Japan.
→ Fortinet is looking for a Director of Product Marketing in Sunnyvale, CA.
→ Venafi is looking for a Director of Product Marketing (remote).
Looking for a job? Hiring? Let us know.
Given the level of VC funding flowing into cybersecurity, the rumors of market’s demise appear to be premature:
0xPass raised $1.8 million seed round.
Datamasque raised a $3 million seed round.
Mindguard raised a £3 million round.
Certa raised a $35 million round.
Upwind raised $50 million.
ThetaRay raised $57 million in a private round.
Josys raised $93 million B funding round.
Tenable acquired Ermetic for $265 million.
Check Point acquired Atmosec.
In less happy news, IronNet furloughs workers, explores bankruptcy.
Raised funding? Got acquired? Let us know!
These are virtual and live events for the cyber sales community you may find interesting:
InfoSec World is taking place on September 25-27, 2023 in Lake Buena Vista, FL
CISO Summit is taking place on November 16, 2023 in New York, NY.
CyberTech is taking place on January 29-31, 2024 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
RSA 2024 is taking place on May 6-9, 2024 in San Francisco, CA.
Attending or hosting an event? Let us know!
Bad guys have been busy recently 📈 :
→ LastPass hack thefts: Hackers who breached LastPass last year appear to be cracking stolen password vaults, recovering crypto-wallet seed phrases, and stealing money from crypt accounts. 150 victims were scammed out of $35 million worth of crypto assets.
→ See Tickets skimming incident: The See Tickets event ticketing company says that more than 320,000 customers might have had card data stolen after its website was infected with an e-skimmer.
→ Seville ransomware attack: The city of Seville in Spain has shut down its IT network after getting hit by a ransomware attack. City officials said they don't plan to pay a $1.5 million ransom requested by the attackers.
→ TissuPath: An Australian pathology clinic reported that patient data possibly exposed in cyber attack.
→ Dymocks Booksellers. The retailer suffered data breach impacting 836k customers.
→ Freecycle. Arizona-based non-profit confirms massive data breach impacting 7 million users.
→ University of Sydney. The data breach at the university impacts recent applicants.
→ Just Kids Dental. A network of pediatric dentistry offices says nearly 130K people affected by attack.
→ Johnson & Johnson. This Fortune 500 company discloses IBM data breachimpacting patients.
But a handful of guys were nabbed 👮♀️:
→ This week, the DOJ charged two more from the February batch (Karyagin and Mikhailov) and seven from the newer batch (Galochkin, Rudenskiy, Tsarev, Zhuykov, Putilin, Loguntsov, and Khaliullin). Charges differ based on their involvement in various attacks against US organizations, and one of the indictments covers the May 2021 attack on Scripps Health, one of the largest healthcare providers in the US.
→ Russian businessman sentenced for hacking: A 43-year-old Russian national was sentenced to nine years in prison. Vladislav Klyushin was found guilty of hacking into companies and using stolen documents to trade shares using non-public information. Officials say Klyushin and four other accomplices made $93 million from illegal stock trades.
→ Roman Storm, arrested founder of Tornado Cash, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to federal charges he helped facilitate more than $1 billion in money laundering, including for a cybercrime group linked to North Korea's government.
Stay safe.
Misha Sobolev
Infosec Marketing Insider - Aphinia