# Darwin Salazar

> Darwin Salazar is Head of Growth at Monad and the founder of The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP), a weekly newsletter read by Fortune 500 CISOs, vendors, and investors. A practitioner-turned-product-leader, he has worked across cloud security, detection engineering, red teaming, and IoT security at Datadog, Accenture, Ford Motor Company, and Johnson & Johnson. With 20,000+ combined followers and 250,000+ newsletter visits, Darwin bridges the gap between hands-on security work and the business of cybersecurity - making complex industry shifts digestible for the people who build, buy, and fund security products.

- **Role:** Head of Growth at Monad
- **Organizations:** Monad, The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP)
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Master of Science, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity, Salve Regina University, Bachelor's degree, Administration of Justice, Salve Regina University, HBX CORe Program, Harvard Business School
- **Known for:** Founded The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP), now read by Fortune 500 CISOs and investors, 20,000+ combined followers across Substack and LinkedIn; 770,000+ LinkedIn impressions, 250,000+ visits to TCP in 2025

## Career timeline

- **~2015** — Founded the Cybersecurity student club at Salve Regina University
- **~2017-2019** — IoT and Product Security roles at Johnson & Johnson (2 yrs 1 mo)
- **~2019-2020** — Red Team / penetration testing at Ford Motor Company
- **~2020-2021** — Cloud Security Consultant at Accenture (1 yr 3 mos)
- **~2021-2022** — Product Detection Engineer II at Datadog - one of the first detection engineers on CSPM team (1 yr 3 mos)
- **2022** — Joined Monad as Head of Product Strategy and Marketing; later Head of Growth
- **2023** — Founded The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP) newsletter on Substack
- **2023** — Featured on Resilient Cyber podcast (S5E7), co-hosted by Chris Hughes and Dr. Nikki Robinson
- **2024** — Spoke on AI & cybersecurity panel at SC World Virtual Conference 2024
- **2025** — TCP reached 7,800+ Substack subscribers and 20,000+ combined followers; 250,000+ newsletter visits

## Achievements

- Founded The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP), now read by Fortune 500 CISOs and investors
- 20,000+ combined followers across Substack and LinkedIn; 770,000+ LinkedIn impressions
- 250,000+ visits to TCP in 2025
- 100,000+ chats with 'The Cybersecurity Professor' GPT agent he created
- Presented workshops at DEF CON and fwd:cloudsec conferences
- Co-hosted Enterprise Security Weekly podcast
- Spoke at Intezer's AI SOC Live event at Nasdaq in Times Square
- Featured on SC World as contributor and conference speaker
- One of the first detection engineers on Datadog's CSPM team
- Founded cybersecurity student club at Salve Regina University
- Holds CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) and AZ-500 certifications
- Posts featured on Hacker News
- Helped Monad win Wiz's inaugural Partner Award

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Continuing as Head of Growth at Monad while publishing TCP newsletter weekly
- **2025-08** — TCP #97 covered 5 Takeaways from Black Hat x DEF CON 2025
- **2025** — TCP reached 20,000+ combined followers and 250,000+ visits; launched merchandise and new branding
- **2024** — Spoke at SC World Virtual Conference on AI as a cybersecurity enabler and threat
- **2024** — Spoke at Intezer's AI SOC Live event at Nasdaq in Times Square

## Links

- Website: https://www.cybersecuritypulse.net/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darwin-salazar/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Darwnsm

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Last updated: 2026-04-24