#iamesentire Success Stories
Learn how members of our team have accelerated their personal and professional growth as they’ve advanced their cybersecurity careers here at eSentire.
Megan Eckhardt
VP, Go-To-Market Programs
and Sales Enablement
When I made the decision to leave a 10 year career at a large corporation for a relatively unknown cybersecurity company, it was because I wanted to make a difference. It was quickly evident to me that eSentire was a company that empowered its employees to do just that. To think outside of the box. To lean in to other teams and offer support or insights when you had something to contribute. To test new ideas by failing fast and failing forward. From top down, we rally behind our mission to protect our customers, and to do that effectively it takes an ecosystem of diverse talents and experiences coming together and working towards that common belief. I am proud to work for a customer-centric company where our people are the differentiator.
Personally, I have been empowered to grow my career as an executive in an industry that is predominately male driven. My favourite example of this is when our CEO Kerry Bailey surprised me with a VP promotion, and in turn I surprised him with a pregnancy and 12-month maternity leave. Many women experience the nerves and doubt that come relaying the news of an impending maternity leave but the support I experienced during that time and the reassurance that my personal decision to do what was best for my family would not impact or jeopardize my career progression, was a breath of fresh air. When I returned to work, I was a presented with an opportunity to make an impact on the sales team by building our supporting functions from the ground up, which was both challenging and exciting, ultimately resulting in a new passion for sales development, operations, and enablement.
Lastly, I will say that eSentire has constantly stretched me as an individual contributor, as a leader, and as a person, even when I did not feel confident in my own abilities to get the job done. My leadership never wavered in their support and my team never stopped fighting alongside me. I have been given the chance to accelerate my career and experience multiple lines of business, and feel like a valued member of the leadership team and eSentire family.
Keegan Keplinger
Threat Intelligence Lead,
Threat Response Unit
I arrived at eSentire in 2017 as a data analyst for the threat intelligence team. I was raised academically, as a scientist, largely in the fields of math, physics, and neuroscience. I had no security background when I joined eSentire but I was able to bring a fresh perspective to the team by turning eSentire’s data into comprehensive visualizations that, with the team’s security intuition, told meaningful stories. Those stories brought situational awareness to our security objectives and created marketing content to drive our brand. At the same time, the Threat Intelligence team and the newly formed Advanced Threat Analytics team were honing my own security intuition. As eSentire’s strongest security teams continued to develop my skills and I continued to uncover data anomalies, I eventually began catching – and writing rules to detect – active intrusions. In time, I grew into a threat research role, which my programming and data analytics skills have continued to advance. eSentire is the kind of work environment that will help you advance your skills and prioritize your passions. I have been able to apply my scientific thinking to drive security outcomes forward.
Kathryn Hodge
Chief People Officer
When I was thinking of joining eSentire in 2017, I talked to my family about my decision. My son, who was 12 at the time, looked at the website and watched videos explaining the mission of the company and what we did to protect our customers from cybersecurity threats. Even at a young age, my son understood that working at eSentire would be important to the world, and knowing his mom was in HR, he told me helping a team like ours would really matter and mean something. Smart kid.
Since that time, I have been proud to be part of this amazing story and partner with the team to achieve extraordinary goals. Working alongside our incredibly talented security experts is extremely rewarding work. Our team makes leaps and bounds to deliver on our customer promise which inspires achievement in all of us. The level of collaborative team work, technical expertise and organizational spirit is unmatched. We learn together and aspire to be the very best at what we do. We make it a priority to hone skills and develop people’s talents so the eSentire tradecraft is unrivaled in the industry, making us the authority in MDR. Mentorship and role enrichment are a vital part of our culture and people, at all levels, share their expertise generously. I love eSentire because we are a PEOPLE culture to the core. We are the place to build a meaningful career.
