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KymberLee Russell, Product Marketing Manager at Synack

KymberLee Russell

Product Marketing Manager

KymberLee Russell is a Product Marketing Manager at Synack focused on AI-powered cybersecurity, penetration testing, and continuous security validation. She works across product, marketing, sales and security teams to help organizations better understand modern offensive security strategies and agentic AI-powered pentesting.

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How Does Penetration Testing Support SOC 2, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001?

How Does Penetration Testing Support SOC 2, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001?

Organizations pursuing a SOC 2 report, PCI DSS compliance, or ISO 27001 certification eventually face the same question: does penetration testing actually satisfy what an auditor or assessor expects? The answer differs by framework. SOC 2, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001 all rely on penetration testing to prove that security controls work in practice rather than only on paper, but each one defines the testing requirement, cadence, and evidence expectations differently. This guide compares how SOC 2, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001 use penetration testing, what each framework explicitly requires versus leaves to risk-based judgment, and what auditors and assessors expect to see as evidence.

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KymberLee Russell, Product Marketing Manager at Synack
KymberLee Russell
9 min read
How Is PTaaS Different From Other Testing Models and Capabilities?

How Is PTaaS Different From Other Testing Models and Capabilities?

Security teams often talk about "penetration testing" as though it were one thing, but the market actually includes several distinct models: a single scheduled engagement, a recurring automated scan, a human-led manual assessment, and platform-delivered testing that runs continuously as environments change. Choosing among them affects how quickly a team can validate a new vulnerability, how much manual coordination a program requires, and how well testing keeps pace with a growing attack surface. This guide compares penetration testing as a service (PTaaS) with traditional point-in-time testing, continuous testing, manual and automated testing, and testing tools versus testing services, then explains which factors should drive the choice between them.

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KymberLee Russell, Product Marketing Manager at Synack
KymberLee Russell
5 min read
How Does Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) Work?

How Does Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) Work?

Penetration testing as a service (PTaaS) delivers authorized, human-led penetration testing through a managed platform that supports on-demand and continuous testing, centralized reporting and retesting as environments change. Instead of scheduling a single, point-in-time engagement, security teams use a PTaaS platform to scope, launch, monitor and retest security assessments on an ongoing basis. This guide explains how a PTaaS engagement actually works: the core platform components, the step-by-step testing lifecycle, the testing types PTaaS supports, and how the model differs from traditional penetration testing and automated scanning.

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KymberLee Russell, Product Marketing Manager at Synack
KymberLee Russell
8 min read
The AI Pentesting Platform Checklist for Regulated Enterprises Agentic AI

The AI Pentesting Platform Checklist for Regulated Enterprises

Regulated enterprises evaluating AI pentesting platforms should assess eight capabilities: FedRAMP Moderate authorization or higher, multi-framework compliance support, human-in-the-loop with agentic AI, verified zero-false-positive findings, bidirectional workflow integrations, self-service launch, auditable coverage visibility, and full offensive security platform capabilities. Vendors who can't clearly distinguish their AI from an automated scanner are likely selling exactly that.

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KymberLee Russell, Product Marketing Manager at Synack
KymberLee Russell
8 min read
Bridging the Gap Between Compliance and Security with SynackST Agentic AI

Bridging the Gap Between Compliance and Security with SynackST

Modern enterprises don’t have one risk profile—they have dozens: Each scenario presents different variables, so applying the same testing depth to every asset is inefficient. Likewise, universally applying the same cadence is unrealistic. That’s why mature security programs are evolving toward a tiered offensive model that offers compliance validation as the baseline, structured standard pentesting […]

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KymberLee Russell, Product Marketing Manager at Synack
KymberLee Russell
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