Breaking Into Cybersecurity

Renee Small, Christophe Foulon

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: 549

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

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

medium

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

Hospitality to Cyber Pivot | Anthony Merlas | Breaking Into Cybersecurity

August 23, 2026

Discover how to transition from the hospitality industry to cybersecurity with zero prior tech experience. Anthony Merlas shares his journey from hotel general manager in San Francisco to IT security professional.Key Takeaways:* Leveraging transferable communication skills from service industries.* Navigating a 6-month cybersecurity boot camp transition.* Critical study tips for building technical basics from scratch.Guest Bio:Anthony Merlas transitioned into a role in information security an...

IAM & CEO Journey | Archit Lohokare | BIC

June 19, 2026

Discover 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 founding full-stack engineer to a high-level leader....

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...

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