Angela Heindl-Schober

CMO of Synack

Angela Heindl-Schober is Chief Marketing Officer at Synack, the leading platform for human and agentic AI-powered penetration testing. With nearly three decades building and scaling global marketing organizations inside US technology companies, she has partnered with CEOs, boards, and investors to position companies for category leadership and sustained growth. Before joining Synack, Angela held senior marketing leadership roles at Vectra AI and HYCU, where she was SVP Global Marketing and a member of the Executive Leadership Team. She writes about cybersecurity strategy, CISO leadership, and what it takes to build marketing into a genuine growth engine.

Recent research

Human-in-the-Loop: Why Human Validation Is the Trust Layer AI Still Needs

Agentic AI

Jun 8, 2026

Human-in-the-Loop: Why Human Validation Is the Trust Layer AI Still Needs

I’ve watched AI change three things in my world almost at once: how my team works, how our buyers make decisions, and how security teams decide what risk is actually real. Most days, that’s exciting. We lean on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot — pick your assistant — to research a market, size up a […]

Angela Heindl-Schober

7 min read

AI Can’t Fix What It Can’t Trust: Why Continuous Security Validation Matters

Agentic AI

May 28, 2026

AI Can’t Fix What It Can’t Trust: Why Continuous Security Validation Matters

Continuous Security Validation (CSV) is an ongoing offensive-security approach that pairs AI-powered testing with human expertise to continuously identify, validate, and prioritize real-world exploitable risk — so teams can trust which findings are safe for AI-driven remediation to act on. AI has made it easier than ever to generate vulnerability findings. But with the deluge […]

Angela Heindl-Schober

4 min read