AI BDR for Cybersecurity Companies — Autonomous Outbound
Strides Agent reaches CISOs, IT security directors, and VPs of Security with signal-triggered outreach. AI prospecting and meeting booking for cybersecurity sales teams.
CISOs are the most inundated buyers in B2B. Strides monitors breach events, compliance deadlines, and hiring signals to reach security decision-makers with the right message at the exact right moment.
By the Numbers
- 72h — From compliance trigger to first outreach
- 4.3× — More CISO meetings booked vs. manual
- 0 — SDR headcount required
- 24/7 — Security pipeline motion continuous
Built for Cybersecurity's Urgency-Driven Sales Cycles.
Breach signals, compliance deadlines, and security hiring triggers — all feeding autonomous outreach to the right security buyers.
Prospect Research
Finds, scores, and qualifies your ideal customers from 6 live data sources — hiring signals, funding rounds, intent data, and more.
Personalized Outreach
Writes and sends emails that reference the prospect's specific context. Not templates with merge fields — genuinely unique messages for every person.
AI Phone Calls
Real phone conversations with real objection handling. The AI books meetings on the call, detects voicemail in 2 seconds, and leaves a perfect message every time.
Inbound Handling
Responds to every inbound inquiry in under 60 seconds, qualifies them against your ICP, and books a meeting before your team even opens their laptop.
Autonomous Pipeline
Stranger to booked meeting without a single human touchpoint. The full outbound motion runs on its own, 24/7, across every timezone.
CRM Sync & Reporting
Every interaction logged to your CRM automatically. Calls transcribed, scored, and summarized. Full pipeline visibility without any manual data entry.
Why Cybersecurity Sales Depends on Timing — and How AI Gets It Right
CISOs and IT security directors receive more outreach than almost any other buyer in B2B. Security vendors are everywhere, and security buyers have learned to filter aggressively. What breaks through is relevance and timing — an email that arrives immediately after a relevant compliance deadline, a breach disclosure at a peer company, or a new regulatory requirement demonstrates that the sender is paying attention, not just blasting a list.
Strides monitors dozens of signals specific to cybersecurity buying: publicly disclosed breaches at companies in your ICP (creating urgency at peers), regulatory announcements (CMMC, GDPR, SOC 2 updates), CISO and VP Security appointments (triggering vendor evaluation), security team growth (indicating budget expansion), and compliance certification timelines.
Cybersecurity outreach that works references the prospect's specific security posture context — their industry's regulatory environment, a recent breach at a peer, or a known gap in their disclosed security stack. Generic outreach gets deleted. Context-specific outreach gets meetings. Strides generates the context, not just the email.
Cybersecurity companies deploying Strides see the most impact in mid-market and enterprise outreach — buyers who have budget for security solutions but whose attention is hardest to get without a warm introduction or perfectly-timed signal-based outreach.
What Customers Say
We were spending 3 hours a day on list building. Strides does it overnight while we sleep. We wake up to 200 verified, signal-qualified leads every morning.
Daniel Frey, Head of Sales at Paigo — 200 signal-qualified leads delivered every morning
Our previous tool sent the same email with the name swapped. Strides writes something different for every single person. Prospects actually respond saying they were impressed.
Jordan Lee, Director of Sales at Resend — Reply rate up 3.7× in the first 30 days
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Frequently Asked Questions
What security-specific signals does Strides monitor?
Publicly disclosed breaches (particularly at companies in your ICP), regulatory announcements, CISO and VP Security appointments, security-related job postings (indicating budget), compliance certification announcements, and industry-specific threat intelligence releases.
Can Strides reach CISOs and technical security decision-makers?
Yes. Strides identifies CISOs, VPs of Security, IT Security Directors, and technical practitioners like SOC leads and security architects, with messaging calibrated to their specific role and security domain focus.
How does Strides handle the crowded cybersecurity sales environment?
By prioritizing signal-triggered outreach that is demonstrably relevant to the prospect's current situation. Strides doesn't send unsolicited generic pitches — it sends outreach that references something specific and current about the prospect's security context.
Does Strides work for both product and services cybersecurity companies?
Yes. Security product companies use Strides to reach the right technical evaluators at the right time. Security services companies (MSSPs, consulting firms, pen testing) use Strides to identify companies actively looking to supplement their internal security function.
Can Strides help with both SMB and enterprise cybersecurity sales motions?
Yes. SMB security sales is high-velocity and requires scale — Strides handles volume efficiently. Enterprise security sales requires deep personalization and multi-stakeholder management — Strides handles that too, with separate campaign configurations per segment.