Cheat Sheet: Substack Cybersecurity Targets
February 3, 2025
12:27 pm
Here’s a cheat sheet with ten authors of cybersecurity newsletters on Substack. All are men, and few are Americans.
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Cheat Sheet: DC-based Cybersecurity Targets
January 9, 2025
9:39 am
This revision of a June 2023 cheat sheet doubles the number of cybersecurity targets based in the Washington, DC area — from 13 to 26. You’ll find multiple reporters from a single publication only if they write frequently.
Updated Cheat Sheet: Identity & Access Management
April 11, 2024
9:03 am
Our previous IAM cheat sheet was less than a year old but needed a good scrub. Fewer reporters cover IAM these days. We did find 11, whose names are below. Few were on the last one.
Updated Cheat Sheet: Reporters Who Cover Cybersecurity Surveys
April 10, 2024
3:07 pm
Here’s a cheat sheet comprising 11 reporters who recently covered a cybersecurity survey as news. We carried over three targets from our Sept. 2022 cheat sheet; all other names are new.
Updated Cheat Sheet: Cybersecurity Podcasts
April 8, 2024
6:27 am
We offer 19 cybersecurity podcasts, the vast majority being from independent experts. We omitted podcasts produced by vendors (or tried to), and those that were obviously pay-to-play. You’ll find lots of podcasts addressing how to land a job in cybersecurity.
Cheat Sheet: Prolific Cybersecurity Reporters
April 6, 2024
1:59 pm
Here’s a cheat sheet on the top 17 most prolific cybersecurity reporters as of April 2024. They are the ones who write more frequently about cybersecurity topics than other beat reporters.
Cheat Sheet: Quantum Cybersecurity Reporters
March 21, 2024
6:54 am
Here are 11 reporters who cover quantum technology as applied to cybersecurity. The vast majority are beat reporters. PR pros will note that quantum continues to fascinate trend and big-picture journalists.
Cheat Sheet Lite: Cybersecurity Awards
November 11, 2023
10:02 am
Here’s a short list of cybersecurity awards, mostly US-based but we included a couple over in the UK. This is a cheat sheet “lite” because it lacks contact info. Still, the info provided will get you started.
Cheat Sheet: Quantum Security Targets
September 12, 2023
4:45 am
In this short and sweet cheat sheet, we’ve got eight targets focused at least in part on quantum security. This is still a nascent field, though the “quantum” term has been bandied about for a decade or two.
SWMS Dossier: James Rundle, WSJ Pro Cybersecurity Vertical
September 11, 2023
5:06 am
You may know James Rundle as the bass player in the NY-based punk rock band called Something Bitter. James is best known as a reporter for the WSJ Pro cybersecurity vertical.
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ChatGPT Caught Lying
July 5, 2025
When Axios prompted ChatGPT for basic background research on Wealthfront’s confidential IPO filing last week, the bot confidently detailed a Wealthfront investor deck. The problem? It appears to be entirely made up.
Axios Belatedly Launches A Business-of-Media Event Franchise
June 26, 2025
Indy media business experts Brian Morrissey and Jacob Cohen Donnelly have built two very successful businesses with both newsletters and face-to-face events. Axios has noticed this and has decided to get into the event space focusing on the economics of publishing, which of course is a topic close to home. Announced this week: an Axios event coming up in September. Hosts: Sara Fischer and Kerry Flynn.
ServiceNow Throws Money at Fortune to Jumpstart AI Spending
June 24, 2025
ServiceNow has launched a special report on Fortune to jumpstart strategic spending on AI, illustrating workarounds for implementation problems, and otherwise illuminating the path to integrating AI into software operations. This is a branding exercise, of course, and perhaps is a sign that earned media is just not going get a strategic job done.
AIQ shows a big idea and how to leverage the prestige of Fortune without having to pitch stories to accomplish that same objective: you can just buy shelf space. In the case of AIQ, Fortune hired freelancer Sage Lazzaro — who used to work on staff there to create high-level content. So let’s keep an eye on this project, monitoring how well-respected it is… and whether its content gets surfaced in search engines.
The SiliconANGLE TechForward Awards: You Can Apply Now
June 22, 2025
Here are the details — Choose from 5 categories and 30+ subcategories. The awards are being promoted by Bhava Communications, an SWMS subscriber.
Check Out the LinkedIn Profile of TechCrunch’s Publisher
June 22, 2025
The guy also is the full-time “chairman” of Bally and Sassoon. On top of that, he’s also chairman of Foundry and 13 other companies. Well, 14, if you count his own private equity firm. How much time will he put into TC, understanding the subtleties of tech edit?