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Head of Sales: It is rare that a company can grow this quickly and still have such a consistent, intentional, energetic, and passionate culture.
Head of Operations: Women have been underrepresented in the cybersecurity space for such a long time. I think it is so important for a young company like Dune Security to have a great culture from the beginning. It is very inspiring for me personally to join a space and see that there are so many talented women already here.
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Cybersecurity Engineer: As a cybersecurity engineer, I work on the first attack vector when we attack a client's company. I screen people beforehand to find information so I can do either spear phishing, phishing, or smishing to get people to enter their credentials and identify vulnerabilities.
Head of Sales: As technology continues to advance, the ways that people can be breached or hacked continue to advance as well. Something that is really exciting is getting on a call, hearing about new problems, and being able to bring those back to our incredible development team and think about ways we can build a product that solves for them. We have an incredible engineering team here that is very customer-driven and focused on actually solving this important problem for the industry.
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Backend Engineer: Everybody here really pushes themselves and has a lot of ownership over the product, and that energy is intoxicating. I love my team. It is what I love most about working at Dune. I adore everybody, but I really love the engineering team. They have been so warm and welcoming, and everybody is brilliant.
Head of Sales: The ability for women to form community, to be incredible leaders, and to have really impressive talents and intelligence, whether intellectual or emotional, makes them the perfect fit for a category where you need to be dynamic. You need to understand people's needs and come up with ways to solve for them. Women are the perfect fit for cybersecurity.
Backend Engineer: Whenever you have the chance, it is important to be a role model in the field. We are growing in the industry, and it is an exciting thing to be a part of.
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Head of Operations: We are a very diverse team because we live in New York. New York is the hub for diversity.
This Women's Month, we celebrate the women at Dune Security who are driving innovation and shaping the future of cybersecurity. In this short feature, team members from operations, sales, engineering, and security research share what drew them to the field, what it is like to build at a fast-growing company, and why they believe women bring exactly the skills cybersecurity needs most.
Featuring core team members:
- Claudia Dalmau Gomez, Head of Operations and Compliance
- Kaila Mathis, Head of Sales
- Juliëtte van Ravenswaay Claasen, Cybersecurity Engineer
- Rebecca Picanso, Backend Engineer
Join us in celebrating the incredible women who are not just making a difference at Dune, but are also setting new standards for the cybersecurity industry. It is a look at how culture, leadership, and representation come together to create teams that move fast and care deeply about the work they do.
Key Takeaways
- Culture is intentional from day one. Building a consistent, energetic, and inclusive culture early is what makes it possible to scale a high-performing team.
- Customer empathy is a product advantage. A team that listens deeply to customer problems and translates them directly to engineering builds products that actually solve problems.
- Ownership compounds results. When every team member takes ownership of the product and the problems it solves, the energy and pace of innovation accelerate across the organization.
- Representation accelerates the field. Women remain an underrepresented voice in cybersecurity, and the industry performs better with diverse perspectives and skill sets. When women in technical roles step into visibility, they lower the barrier for others and expand the talent pool the field urgently needs.
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