Welcome to The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP)
The Cybersecurity Pulse started as an internal tracker for cloud security product launches back in early 2023.
I was a detection engineer on Datadog’s CSPM team and shared it with our product and design teams. Dozens of cloud security vendors were shipping constantly, but I could not find a publication covering those products critically, from a practitioner’s perspective, and without pay-to-play incentives. I still do not see one today.
TCP grew from that tracker, and its coverage grew with it. Today, I cover emerging threats, practitioner research, security products, market themes, security leader insights, startups, funding, M&A, and the GTM activity around them.
TCP now reaches more than 20,000 people and is read in 130+ countries. The audience includes practitioners, Fortune 500 CISOs and their teams, founders, operators, GTM leaders, and investors. TCP has grown with the support of readers across the security community who share it with their teams and peers.
About me
I’m Darwin Salazar. I spent seven years in practitioner roles across detection engineering, cloud security, red teaming, and IoT security at Datadog, Accenture, Ford, and Johnson & Johnson.
For the past three years, I have led GTM at Monad, working across product strategy, growth, field work, and sales.
I understand what practitioners and security leaders want to know about a product. I also understand what it takes to build, position, and bring that product to market. That experience shapes how I cover the industry.
I’ve given workshops and spoken at conferences like DEF CON, fwd:cloudsec, and more. Most recently, my team and I wrote A Security Field Guide to AI Tooling Visibility, which examines what eight major AI tools log (i.e., claude code, cursor etc.), what they miss, and what their records can prove.
Outside of security, I enjoy spending time with family, DJing, padel, baseball, Austin, and traveling.
What you’ll find here
Weekly issues: The most important threats, research, products, market shifts, deals, and company news from the week.
Deep Cuts: Longer analysis on topics that need more room.
The Library: Useful security research collected from more than 100 industry sources.
Tips, corrections, and stories I should be following: darwin@cybersecuritypulse.org
