Breaking Into Cybersecurity

Renee Small, Christophe Foulon

breakingintocyber@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

This podcast spotlights real cybersecurity career pivots and leadership paths, using professionals’ step-by-step experiences to help listeners break in or grow. For PR outreach, it’s a strong platform for credible application security, IAM, and enterprise defense leaders who can share practical career and workforce development lessons.

Metrics

Episodes: 548

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

breakingintocyber@gmail.com

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Host

Renee Small - CEO of Cyber Human Capital, described as a leading HR business partner in cybersecurity and an author (Amazon #1 best-selling) of Magnetic Hiring: Your Company's Secret Weapon to Attracting Top Cyb...

Christophe Foulon - Focuses on securing people and processes, with over ten years of experience as an Information Security Manager and Cybersecurity Strategist. Emphasizes customer service and process improvement, and...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Cybersecurity practitioners/leaders with demonstrable domain expertise (e.g., IAM/cryptography, application security/program analysis, configuration/enterprise defense). Ideally have a credible personal transition story into security (career pivot or progression) and practical advice that translates to hiring, upskilling, or landing roles.
Required Achievements:  
CEO or leadership role in cybersecurity, Authorship/creation of security tooling (e.g., open-source tools), Startup founding with acquisition or industry impact, Recognition as a security configuration/defense expert

Recent Guest Discussions

Justin Collins - Pivot Into Cybersecurity From Cs/academia; Application Security Niche Skills (sql Injection/xss); Preparation For Security Interviews; Open Source As Career Catalyst; Side-hustle Startup Model.

Archit Lohokare - Career Transition From Engineer To Ceo; Iam; Cryptography; Building Secure Scalable Systems; Mindset And Steps For Breaking Into Cybersecurity.

Tal Kollender - Enterprise Email Security Gaps; Configuration Security; Why Traditional Email Filtering Fails; Attacker Tactics; Future-proofing And Career Advice Via Security Specialization.

Recent Topics

Cybersecurity, Career, Application Security, Identity Access, Threat Mitigation

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Breaking Into Cybersecurity
:

IAM & CEO Journey | Archit Lohokare | BIC

June 19, 2026

IAM & CEO Journey | Archit Lohokare | BICDiscover how to break into cybersecurity by mastering foundational technologies like cryptography and scaling your career from engineer to CEO with Archit Lohokare. In this episode, we explore the mindset required to build secure enterprise systems from the ground up.- How building the RSA algorithm from scratch launched Archit's career.- The evolution of Identity and Access Management (IAM) in enterprise environments.- Transitioning from a fou...

Intern to Founder | Justin Collins | Breaking Into Cyber

June 19, 2026

Intern to Founder | Justin Collins | Breaking Into CyberEpisode SummaryIn this episode, Justin Collins shares his unique journey from a PhD student in Computer Science to becoming a key figure in the application security space. Justin explains how a funding shortage led him to a life-changing internship at AT&T Interactive, where he combined his passion for compiler theory with cybersecurity to create the open-source tool Brakeman. We dive into how he balanced a full-time job while co-fou...

Teen Hacker to CEO | Tal Kollender | BIC

May 21, 2026

Stop leaving your organization exposed to threats—learn why none of your current email security tools are enough without the right strategy. Tal Kollender joins the show to discuss closing the critical gaps in enterprise communication.- Identify the most common vulnerabilities in modern email infrastructure.- Learn how to move beyond basic filtering to advanced threat mitigation.- Discover the role of security configuration in protecting email environments.- Understand the evolving tactics us...

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