KymberLee Russell | Synack Author

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.

Recent research

The AI Pentesting Platform Checklist for Regulated Enterprises
Jul 20, 2026
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.

KymberLee Russell
8 min read

Bridging the Gap Between Compliance and Security with SynackST
Feb 27, 2026
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 [...]

KymberLee Russell
3 min read