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.
Jack Naglieri is the founder and CEO of Panther, a cloud-native SIEM platform that achieved unicorn status in 2021 with a $1.4B valuation. A former security engineer at Yahoo and Airbnb, he open-sourced StreamAlert in 2017 and parlayed that practitioner frustration into a $140M-funded company serving enterprises like Coinbase and Docker. He also writes Detection at Scale, a widely read Substack newsletter covering AI's transformation of security operations.
Taimur Ijlal is a cloud and AI security leader with 20+ years of international experience, currently serving as a Senior Security Consultant at AWS. Known as 'Cloud Security Guy,' he runs a popular Substack newsletter, YouTube channel, and Udemy courses reaching 80,000+ professionals. A CISO of the Year 2019 winner in the UAE, LinkedIn Top Voice in Cybersecurity, and UK Global Talent Visa 'Exceptional Talent' recipient, Taimur has authored multiple books on cybersecurity careers, certifications, and AI governance. He is recognized for making complex cloud and AI security topics accessible through practical, real-world teaching.