Saturday Brief: Week of March 24, 2025
Digital order in 5 minutes flat, delivered every Saturday morning: The week's hottest PMM insights, industry news, and what's on the horizon—zero fluff, all substance.
🐳 Top Cyber PMM Updates
Marketing Moments: Bringing Order to Product Launch Chaos
In my latest post, I break down the small, high-impact actions product marketers can take to turn launch madness into momentum. From early alignment to post-launch follow-through, these “marketing moments” are your secret weapon to staying sane and strategic.
New Podcast Video on Product Launches
In this episode I dive into the intricacies of product launches in a competitive market. I address common pitfalls such as unclear messaging, lack of program management and lack of executive sponsorship. I break down launches into three tiers to effectively manage resources, the importance of dedicated launch managers and relay the concept of 'Marketing Moments'.
Watch Now:
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Gartner Webinar: 2025 Leadership Vision for Product Marketing
Gartner's Rahim Kaba presented a powerful study on the PMM role, with insights into our functional definition, growing importance to commercial growth, and the impact of AI on our activities.
Watch the webinar: https://webinar.gartner.com/710594/agenda/session/1591715
Download the PDF: https://cdn-static.bizzabo.com/bizzabo.file.upload/jKZaNMIjR5itYhw9ny5v_Mar25RKaba.pdf
📰 Top 3 Industry Updates
The main news this week was the Microsoft's AI Agent launch, OpenAI increasing it's bug bounty maximum to $100k, and the $250M raised by Island.
Microsoft AI Agents for Security Launched. This isn't the first "agent" news by any means, but does this signal a broader market shift toward agents doing more of the heavy SOC lifting?: https://www.axios.com/2025/03/24/microsoft-ai-agents-cybersecurity
OpenAI increased it's maximum bug bounty payout to $100,000 for high-impact vulnerabilities in its infrastructure and products. I know I'm a PMM, but now I'm thinking of becoming a bounty hunter! https://openai.com/index/bug-bounty-program/
Island, a secure enterprise browser, raises $250 Million and is valued at $4.8 Billion: https://www.wsj.com/articles/secure-browser-startup-island-raises-250-million-1f2c3a4f
🎧 Top 3 Content Plugs
Marketing Millennials: Creating a Market Category with Kari Hanson
A very relevant strategy for up and comers trying to take on established players is creating your own category - and Kari lays out the strategy to do so.
Cyber Security Today: Oracle Denies Hack and Signal Messaging App Update:
More and more evidence is mounting that there was a breach at Oracle and there was a national security lapse when officials used Signal to text secret communications.
We're Not Marketers: Why most message testing is complete BS (and how to fix it)
This topic is near and dear to PMMs, because we are often challenged during messaging development to validate our messaging, but often lack the ability to do so.
🔧 Top 3 Tool Plugs
ChatGPT released an image generation tool. You can access it within Sora if you have a ChatGPT account. It's pretty good, and I like how it's consolidating features within one AI tool making it easier for me to pivot between tools. https://sora.com/
Freckle.io is an interesting alternative to Clay, and uses AI Agents to complete database population and help with automate lead enrichment in your marketing workflows.
Cyber PMM Prompt Library. Don't forget to check out the new prompt library which you can use to do more with less using your AI tools. https://carbonated-talk-f20.notion.site/1b9ef9d4da1d803cbf8ddbaee3bc80b7?v=1b9ef9d4da1d8004913e000c44656719
🔭 3 Things On the Horizon
RSA Conference Countdown: 30 Days
Next Cyber PMM Content topic: I will continue the focus on managing innovation and how to survive in rapidly changing market cycles.
Cyber PMM Term Library: I'm getting closer to releasing a Term Library that can be useful for your workflows or as a reference.
🚨 Top 3 Gig Alerts
Trellix: Director, Product Marketing
Socure: Technical Product Marketing Manager in Fraud/Risk/Identity
ThreatConnect: Technical Product Marketing Manager, Threat Intel and SecOps
💡 PMM Tip of the Week
There's a saying, "Death by a thousand cuts". In the virtual product marketing world, I think this is now “death by a thousand calls”. Make it your mission to decline or cancel at least one call this week and focus on learning something, building something, or creating value in some way.
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The mission of Cyber PMM 🐳 is to provide content, tools and frameworks that help Cyber PMMs fight digital chaos, cut through the hype, and do more with less.
Cyber PMMs mostly work as product marketers in cybersecurity, but you can also be from technology, space, or other high tech fields--anyone that is bringing products, services and solutions to a chaotic technology market. Cyber PMM also serves tech founders, solutions marketers, product managers, product engineers, content marketers, and general marketers.