Former Director of Product Marketing

Justine Salisbury

Justine Salisbury is a former Director of Product Marketing at Synack. She worked across product, marketing, and security teams to help organizations understand how AI and human expertise combine to modernize offensive security strategies.

Recent research

The 2026 State of Vulnerabilities Report: Industry Insights
Key Takeaways Vulnerabilities Report Offers Key Industry Benchmarks How does your MTTR hold up against the industry average? And does your organization encounter more high/critical vulnerabilities than others in your industry? Those are just a few questions that our 2026 State of Vulnerabilities Report answers.

The New Standard: Why 64% of Firms Prefer Human-Validated AI Pentesting
How Security Teams Are Really Using Agentic AI Security leaders aren’t waiting to see how agentic AI plays out. They’re already betting on it, and they’ve developed strong opinions about what separates a real penetration testing solution from a rebranded scanner or other DAST tools.

More research by Justine Salisbury

Inside the Sara Pentest 5 Step Workflow
Built on the Synack Autonomous Red Agent (Sara) architecture, Sara Pentest performs agentic AI-led penetration testing with human oversight on external hosts and web applications. It addresses a critical trade-off security teams face: the need to scale testing coverage across an ever-expanding attack surface versus the rising costs and scheduling limits of traditional human pentesting.

Key Takeaways from the GigaOm Radar for PTaaS: An Analyst View of Synack’s Capabilities
Synack’s PTaaS platform is positioned as a Leader and a Fast Mover in the 2025 GigaOm Radar for Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) Report emphasizing depth of testing, operational scalability, and hybrid human-AI execution.

A Look Behind the Curtain: How Sara Agentic AI Triage Works
Sara Triage is Synack’s newest offering. It connects directly to popular vulnerability management scanners and uses agentic AI to confirm which findings are genuinely exploitable.