Recap: 8 Cyber Marketing Pain Points and How to Overcome Them
Season: 2 | Episode: 34
Published: September 15, 2025
By: Byer Co
This article, "Cybersecurity Marketing: Pain Points & Solutions Recap," serves as a summary of common challenges encountered in marketing within the cybersecurity sector. It outlines eight key pain points, such as complex messaging, extended sales cycles, and issues with lead generation, offering actionable strategies to overcome each obstacle. The text emphasizes the importance of simplifying communication, building trust, and demonstrating measurable return on investment (ROI) for marketing efforts. Ultimately, it functions as a practical guide for marketers seeking to enhance their effectiveness in the cybersecurity space, suggesting further collaboration with the author's firm for tailored solutions.
Link: Recap: 8 Cyber Marketing Pain Points and How to Overcome Them
Keywords: marketing,seo,cybersecurity,digital marketing,web design
Episode Transcript
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Welcome back to Digital Rage. I'm Jeff, the producer here at Byer Company.
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Today is episode nine of our Cybersecurity Marketing Series. Today is a recap of the last
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eight episodes. Each thing that we've learned all put together in a nice neat package.
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Topped with a bow. Let's listen.
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Welcome to The Deep Dive. Really excited today. We're getting into a wealth of fascinating
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and pretty challenging area, Cybersecurity Marketing. We're going to zero in on the big pain points.
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You know, the things that keep marketers in this space awake at night and crucially,
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how to actually solve them. So our source material for this is a really comprehensive recap,
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looking at eight key challenges and some quick hit strategies. It draws insights from quite an
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extensive industry ebook, our mission. Basically pull out the most important nuggets for you so you can
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quickly get a handle on effective strategies in what is let's face it, a super complex high stakes field.
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Yeah, and what's really interesting, I think, is how these specific marketing challenges,
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they often just mirror much broader business complexities. So whether you're actually in marketing
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or maybe sales or honestly just curious about how industries communicate when the stakes are
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this high, these insights, they're kind of a shortcut, a shortcut to understanding the core
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problems and, you know, the optimal solutions. Think of it as a tactical playbook for navigating
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a space where trust is just absolutely paramount. Okay, right. Let's unpack this then. The very first
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pain point that comes up is complex messaging. I mean, so much technical jargon, right? Accurating
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everywhere. How do you even start cutting through that noise? Exactly. The solution is, well,
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simplifying your story. But the real insight here is realizing simplifying isn't about dumbing it
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down, not at all. It's about translating these, you know, highly technical concepts into tangible
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business outcomes. Stuff that resonates with the CEO, not just the CISO. Like, if your product
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stops for ransomware attack, the benefit isn't just advanced threat detection. It's, we avoided $5 million
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in downtime and a massive reputation hit. So the question is, are you actually speaking their language,
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the language of the business, or you just lost in the weeds of industry jargon? Oh, the framing
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makes a huge difference. Yeah. And building on that complexity idea, another massive hurdle is
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those notoriously long sales cycles. How do you possibly keep a lead engaged for months, maybe even
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years without them just, well, ghosting you? All right. This is all about patient nurturing, staying
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consistently visible. We're talking account based marketing here, ADM, which basically means focusing
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your energy on a smaller number of high value accounts and then serving them role-based content.
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So maybe the CEO gets content focused on business risk while the CISO sees the technical deep dives.
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Yeah. Connecting it to the bigger picture, it's all about sustained, personalized engagement
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over that whole long journey. Got it. So it's less about shouting and more about kind of building
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that relationship over time, which actually leads us perfectly to the next one, lack of trust. That
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seems absolutely vital in security, doesn't it? You're essentially asking them to trust you with the
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keys to their entire digital kingdom. Precisely. And the solution there involves building credibility.
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You need robust social proof thing, strong case studies, real customer testimonials,
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certifications are also critical. Things like ISO 27001 or SOC2, they matter. And strong thought
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leadership, webinars and cipher white papers, commentary on industry trends that establishes your
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authority. It really highlights that fundamental need for authenticity, for a proven track record
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in every single interaction. Okay. So you've simplified the message, started building trust. But how do
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you avoid sounding just like every other vendor out there? Which brings us to number four. But
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low differentiation. When the market feels so crowded, how do you actually stand out? Yeah, that's
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a tough one. The solution really involves getting incredibly specific. Instead of trying to be a,
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you know, general catch all cybersecurity solution, find your unique niche and then really own a
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distinct brand voice within that niche. What's fascinating here I find is that specificity often
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creates greater appeal because you're speaking directly to a very defined, sometimes overlooked
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need. It's like being the absolute best at one specific thing rather than just okay at everything.
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That distinction feels key. Yeah. What about when potential customers don't even realize they have
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the problem you solve? That's the challenge of low awareness, right? Exactly. The strategy here
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is really simple. Teach first. Educational content does two things brilliantly. It builds urgency
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by highlighting risks they might not have considered and it builds trust at the same time. Think of it
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like empowering your potential customers with knowledge before you even think about selling. It
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shows how education itself becomes this really powerful sales tool warming up leads right at the
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top of the funnel. So education feeds into lead gen. But then you hit the lead generation problems
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point itself. Yeah. Everyone wants more leads. Sure. But what's the real issue here? Is it just about
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volume or finding the right leads in such a specialized field? Exactly. It's that shift from quantity
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to quality. That's the core issue. Look, cybersecurity isn't about just collecting a huge list of
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random contacts. It's about targeting very specific pain points felt by specific personas.
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So maybe the compliance officer at a regional bank versus say the CTO at a tech startup. They have
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different needs. You're not just collecting names. You should be building a pipeline of genuinely
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engaged prospects who actually need your specialized solution. Are you solving real problems for
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specific people or just list building? That's a crucial distinction. Yeah. And then there's that
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classic internal struggle sales marketing misalignment. It's so often feels like these two teams
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are just speaking different languages. Doesn't it? Oh, absolutely. The key here is fostering that one
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team, one message mentality. Easier said than done sometimes, but vital. Practically, this is often
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best done through regular like weekly sinks. Sales shares what they're hearing on the ground,
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marketing shares, upcoming campaigns and content. And things like shared enablement tools,
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updated battle cards, consistent messaging guides, and make sure everyone is seeing from
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the same him sheet. Right. If you connect that to the bigger picture, that internal cohesion,
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it directly impacts your external results, your customer experience, everything. Right. Okay,
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finally, the really big one demonstrating ROI. How on earth do you show the value of security?
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Success often means nothing bad actually happened. It's like proving the dog didn't bark, isn't it?
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Exactly. You nailed it. The core strategy is proving what didn't happen. It sounds completely
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counterintuitive. I know. But imagine trying to tell your CFO, hey, we prevented that multimillion
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dollar breach that almost happened last quarter. How do you do that credibly? That's where you need
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to get creative. You have to quantify prevention, maybe through risk reduction metrics,
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improvements and incident response times, or even just the value of peace of mind for the
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executives. It's all about translating those non events into measurable, tangible value
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that leadership understands. How do you quantify the dog that didn't bark? That's the million dollar
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question. So we've just walked through eight major pain points in cybersecurity marketing.
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What does this all mean for you listening? Well, the truth is, even just tackling one of these
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areas, using some of these insights, that could make a really significant difference. Absolutely.
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These insights really offer a kind of playbook for tackling these common difficult marketing challenges.
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And honestly, they're applicable way beyond just cybersecurity. So many industry struggle with
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complexity or building trust, demonstrating value. Think about how these strategies might
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translate to whatever field you're in. Yeah, definitely. So as you go about your day, maybe consider
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which of those 18 points really resonates with a challenge you're facing right now. And then maybe
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take it a step further. Imagine the impact of tackling that final, perhaps most tricky point,
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proving the value of something that didn't happen. The next challenge you managed to overcome,
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that could become your very own powerful piece of humor.
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