Zain Malik

( Director of Product Marketing )

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Bio

Zain Malik is the Director of Product Marketing at Cyera, where he influences the product narrative, field enablement, and go-to-market strategy across the company’s AI portfolio. With over 10 years of cybersecurity experience, Zain is passionate about storytelling and in makin

Prior to joining Cyera, Zain worked at GitHub and Ping Identity, where he launched new products, introduced new pricing models, and developed brand campaigns. Earlier in his career, he was in sales, which had a profound impact on his views on marketing.

Zain holds an BA in Politics and Economics from NYU and MBA from IESE Business School, in Barcelona, Spain. A proud world citizen, he has lived in seven countries and holds three passports.

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The MCP Security Guide: What Access Control Misses

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AI Agent Observability Explained: The Data Blind Spot Most Platforms Miss

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The Helpful Agent Problem Part IV: Key Security Capabilities for Agentic Success

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The Helpful Agent Problem Part III: The AI Insider

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The Helpful Agent Problem Part II: When “Helpful” Turns Destructive

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Announcing the Copilot Risk Report

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The Helpful Agent Problem Part I: When Good Intentions Become Security Incidents

Monitoring Sensitive Data Access in Microsoft Copilot

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How to Find and Fix Mislabeled Sensitive Data Before Enabling Microsoft Copilot

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AI Agents are breaking data security, here’s how to fix it

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How Cyera stops sensitive data leaks in ChatGPT

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The Future of AI Data Security: Trends, Tools, and Technologies to Watch

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Secure M365 Files that Sensitivity Labels Can't Reach with Cyera Omni DLP

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The AI Worked Perfectly. That Was the Problem.

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Why Real-Time Response is the Key to AI Security Success

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AI Visibility Without Identity Context Is Just a List

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You Can't Protect What You Can't See: Why AI Visibility Is the New Security Imperative

The Risks of Shadow AI: Why Uncontrolled AI Governance Fails Enterprises

AI Governance for the Agentic Era

Rethinking Zero Trust in the Age of AI: Why Following the Data Is the New Trust Boundary

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