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Shawn Edwards works on cybersecurity for communications infrastructure at Zayo Group and serves on the board of the Communications Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (C2 ISAC).

14.9K followersCybersecurityZero trustBased on 12 posts · latest Oct 2026
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At a glance

Most useful for sector threat sharing and zero trust talks on communications infrastructure security.

Best for

A telecom cybersecurity vendor planning a zero trust or critical infrastructure webinar with co-marketing.

Not for

A consumer brand wanting paid endorsement posts with fixed fees and conversion tracking.

Key takeaways

  • C2 ISAC shares indicators, vulnerabilities, tactics, and lessons across communications companies.
  • Zero trust should reduce risk without slowing business operations.
  • Zayo is hiring for cloud, API security, data protection, identity, and compliance.

Check first: Confirm co-marketing arrangement, fees, approval steps, and audience breakdowns before budgeting.

Main ideas
Collective defense beats company-by-company security in communications · Zero trust has to keep the business moving, not just close the perimeter · Cloud, data and API security are where the security program is growing
Audience
14,913 LinkedIn followers
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Zayo joins C2 ISAC as a founding member, with Edwards on the board
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What they are known for

Shawn Edwards works on cybersecurity for communications infrastructure at Zayo Group and serves on the board of the Communications Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (C2 ISAC).

  • Their posts connect network security to collective defense: the C2 ISAC announcement explains how trusted sharing of threat information can help communications providers prepare for and respond to attacks.
  • They also discuss putting zero trust into practice without slowing business operations, and highlight security priorities spanning cloud, data, identity, and regulated government environments.
  • Readers interested in how cybersecurity applies to critical communications infrastructure can follow this work for a practical view of sector collaboration and enterprise security priorities.

Edwards’s distinctive contribution in these posts is the combination of a sector-wide perspective and concrete operating concerns.

  • The C2 ISAC post makes the case for sharing indicators, vulnerabilities, tactics, and lessons across communications companies, while the zero trust panel post frames security as a balance between reducing risk and keeping business moving.
  • Two hiring posts add specific context: Zayo is recruiting for work in cloud and API security, data protection, identity, and compliance across government and regulated environments.
  • These posts show public priorities and speaking topics, rather than a complete account of Edwards’s career or proof of interest in commercial partnerships.
  • For partnership decisions, ask for examples of prior commercial collaborations.
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Ideas and priorities

Shawn Edwards argues that communications infrastructure is too important to secure company by company.

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Across the four posts, they make the case that the sector benefits when rivals share threat information in a trusted setting, zero trust is credible only when it does not slow the business, and security priorities show up in hiring: cloud and data security on one side, federal and regulated compliance on the other.

Collective defense beats company-by-company security in communications

Edwards argues that telecommunications infrastructure underpins the economy, national security and public safety, making its protection a shared responsibility.

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When providers share indicators, vulnerabilities, tactics and operational lessons in a trusted environment, the sector can better anticipate, detect and respond to threats. Joining a sector body is therefore a substantive security move, not a public-relations exercise.

Shawn Edwards announced that Zayo is a founding member of the Communications Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Center, joining AT&T, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Lumen Technologies, T-Mobile and Verizon.

  • They also serve as a Director on the C2 ISAC board.
  • The post points to a TechNewsWorld interview for the case for trusted information sharing.

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Zero trust has to keep the business moving, not just close the perimeter

Edwards frames risk reduction as a business-enablement challenge: security work must lower risk without slowing operations.

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They put identity, fraud and AI in the same conversation, suggesting that emerging trust challenges will cross those boundaries.

Edwards promoted a June 9 panel at CLEAR's "Mission-Ready Identity: The New Standard of Defense in the AI Era" in New York City.

  • The panel was set to explore how organizations such as Zayo Group are operationalizing zero trust beyond the perimeter to reduce risk without slowing the business.
  • They called it an important discussion about the future of trust, security and identity.

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Cloud, data and API security are where the security program is growing

Edwards uses a hiring post to outline a modern security program: data protection and loss prevention; cloud security architecture across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud; API security strategy; identity and least-privilege access; cloud security posture management; and governance, risk and compliance.

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The post links those needs to accelerating cloud adoption and AI-driven transformation. It frames the role as a partner to engineering, infrastructure, legal, privacy and leadership, not a standalone function.

Zayo's Director, Data & Cloud Security role covers each of those capability areas and aims to enable secure, scalable innovation across the business. Edwards invites readers to apply or share the posting with someone who fits.

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Compliance and government security are strategy work, not checkbox work

Edwards presents framework coverage as a portfolio spanning defense industrial, federal cloud, privacy and payments programs.

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The leadership role is to shape enterprise security strategy, safeguard regulated environments and support federal programs, with an emphasis on operational maturity and cross-functional partnership rather than certification for its own sake.

Zayo's Senior Manager, Compliance & Government Security role covers CMMC, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, DFARS, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS, and includes Facility Security Officer and ITPSO responsibilities. Edwards says the role extends beyond compliance, working across Security, Legal, HR, IT, Production Networks and executive leadership.

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Start with their work

Zayo joins C2 ISAC as a founding member, with Edwards on the board

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It shows Edwards helping establish a sector-wide threat-sharing body and serving on its board—not just holding a security job title.

Edwards announces that Zayo is a founding member of the Communications Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (C2 ISAC), alongside AT&T, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Lumen Technologies, T-Mobile, and Verizon, and says they serve as a Director on the C2 ISAC board.

  • The post calls communications infrastructure foundational to the economy, national security, and public safety, and argues that protecting it depends on trusted collaboration and collective defense.
  • Edwards points to an interview with TechNewsWorld, arguing that sharing indicators, vulnerabilities, tactics, and operational lessons in a trusted environment helps the whole sector better anticipate, detect, and respond to threats.

For brands planning a campaign

This is the strongest available anchor for a critical-infrastructure security pitch.

  • A vendor can propose a co-marketing webinar on sector-wide information sharing rather than a single product: Edwards has spoken publicly about why collective defense matters and can bring a multi-carrier perspective few single-company speakers can.
  • Ask about the C2 ISAC work directly; the announcement alone doesn’t establish promotional intent.

Panel appearance: operationalizing zero trust beyond the perimeter

Edwards’s own words show the exact topic they’re currently willing to discuss in public, making it quick to judge whether a zero trust webinar idea fits.

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Edwards promoted a June 9 panel at CLEAR's "Mission-Ready Identity: The New Standard of Defense in the AI Era" in New York City, alongside leaders in cybersecurity, identity, fraud, and AI.

  • The panel topic is how organizations such as Zayo Group are operationalizing zero trust beyond the perimeter to reduce risk without slowing the business down.
  • Edwards calls it an important discussion on the future of trust, security, and identity and links a registration page.

For brands planning a campaign

Edwards’s public framing of zero trust suits a webinar for readers already familiar with the topic, including the practical constraint of not slowing the business.

  • Build the proposal around that angle and the identity-plus-AI conference context rather than leading with product capabilities.
  • This signals speaking experience and topic comfort, not an endorsement of any vendor.

Hiring post: Director, Data and Cloud Security at Zayo

A hiring post offers a rare public view of what a security leader is building and which technical problems are on their desk now.

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Edwards is recruiting a Director of Data and Cloud Security, citing accelerating cloud adoption and AI-driven transformation.

  • The scope covers data protection and DLP, cloud security architecture across AWS, Azure, and GCP, API security strategy, IAM and least-privilege access, CSPM and cloud-native security, and security governance, risk, and compliance.
  • The role partners with engineering, infrastructure, legal, privacy, and leadership teams, with the goal of enabling secure, scalable innovation.

For brands planning a campaign

This post identifies where Edwards’s organization is adding capability, giving vendors a basis for a specific pitch on cloud security architecture, API security, or identity and least privilege—not generic "security." Before pitching, ask whether Edwards accepts sponsorships or co-marketing.

Hiring post: Senior Manager, Compliance and Government Security

This shows where the government and regulated-industry side of the security program is heading—a different buying conversation from cloud security.

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Edwards describes growing the Compliance and Government Security leadership team, with programs spanning CMMC, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, DFARS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and broader government security operations.

  • The role also serves as Facility Security Officer and ITPSO, working across Security, Legal, HR, IT, Production Networks, and executive leadership.
  • Edwards says the role will shape enterprise security strategy and support federal programs, not just compliance paperwork.

For brands planning a campaign

For vendors supporting federal or regulated programs, this is a more differentiated entry point than a general zero trust message: the named frameworks and FSO/ITPSO scope indicate where outside expertise may be relevant. Ask whether Edwards is open to commercial partnerships; the post shows priorities, not willingness to partner.

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Topics and approach

Posts cited for each topic
How Edwards communicates: industry announcements, hiring calls and event promotion4
Collective defense across the communications sector1
Zero trust and identity beyond the perimeter1
Building cloud, data and API security programs1
Compliance and government security as enterprise strategy1

Collective defense across the communications sector

Edwards announced that Zayo is a founding member of the Communications Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (C2 ISAC), alongside AT&T, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Lumen, T-Mobile and Verizon.

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They also serve as a director on the C2 ISAC board. The post describes telecommunications infrastructure as foundational to the economy, national security and public safety, and argues that sharing indicators, vulnerabilities, tactics and operational lessons in a trusted environment helps the sector anticipate, detect and respond to threats.

Starts at the sector level—with shared mission, collective defense and trusted information sharing—and presents individual company participation as part of a broader industry effort.

For brands planning a campaign

For a security vendor, the natural entry point is sector-wide information sharing, not a single-product pitch. A co-marketing webinar or co-authored piece on how communications providers share threat intelligence—and what that looks like in practice—fits how Edwards already discusses the problem.

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Zero trust and identity beyond the perimeter

Edwards promoted a June 9 panel at CLEAR’s “Mission-Ready Identity: The New Standard of Defense in the AI Era” in New York City, alongside leaders in cybersecurity, identity, fraud and AI.

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The panel was set to explore how organizations such as Zayo are operationalizing zero trust beyond the perimeter to reduce risk without slowing the business.

Frames security as a business-enablement challenge—reducing risk without slowing the business—and brings identity, fraud and AI into the same conversation rather than treating them as separate domains.

For brands planning a campaign

This is the closest existing evidence for the zero trust and critical infrastructure brief. A vendor pitch should lead with how zero trust can be implemented without disrupting operations, then extend the discussion to identity and AI-driven threats, which Edwards already links.

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Building cloud, data and API security programs

Edwards posted a call for applicants for a Director, Data & Cloud Security role at Zayo, covering data protection and DLP, cloud security architecture on AWS, Azure and GCP, API security strategy, IAM and least-privilege access, CSPM and cloud-native security, as well as security governance, risk and compliance.

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The post ties the role to accelerating cloud adoption and AI-driven transformation, with close collaboration across engineering, infrastructure, legal, privacy and leadership teams.

Uses a hiring post to outline a program agenda: each bullet names a capability area, while the framing emphasizes cross-functional partnership over a narrow technical remit.

For brands planning a campaign

A vendor with cloud, data or API security offerings can address the same agenda.

  • The practical angle is enablement: how security teams support cloud and AI adoption without becoming a bottleneck.
  • That’s how Edwards frames the role’s purpose.

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Compliance and government security as enterprise strategy

Edwards announced a Senior Manager, Compliance & Government Security role covering CMMC, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, DFARS, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS.

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The position also serves as Facility Security Officer and ITPSO. The post positions the job as more than compliance: it shapes enterprise security strategy, safeguards regulated environments and supports federal programs.

Treats framework coverage as a portfolio of programs—defense, federal cloud, privacy and payments—rather than a single certification, and emphasizes operational maturity over checklists.

For brands planning a campaign

For vendors in compliance automation, FedRAMP or government security, Edwards presents these as strategic programs spanning security, legal, HR, IT and production networks. Messaging on cross-functional program building and federal readiness will resonate more than framework-specific feature claims.

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How Edwards communicates: industry announcements, hiring calls and event promotion

Three formats recur across the posts: industry milestone announcements (the C2 ISAC launch and board role), senior security hiring calls that double as program descriptions, and promotion of an external cybersecurity event with a registration link.

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The consistent argument moves from sector-level stakes to a concrete call to act: join, apply, register or congratulate.

For brands planning a campaign

Edwards publicly promotes events and mobilizes an audience to act, making this a useful signal for a co-marketing webinar or panel request. A partner proposal with a clear, shareable call to action fits the pattern better than a purely awareness-oriented campaign.

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Brands and businesses

The posts link Shawn Edwards to three organizations.

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Zayo Group is the employer they post from, covering security hiring and the company’s role in critical-infrastructure protection.

  • They also serve as a Director on the board of C2 ISAC, the Communications Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Center, which Zayo co-founded with AT&T, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Lumen Technologies, T-Mobile, and Verizon.
  • The third is a CLEAR-hosted event in New York, where they appear on a panel about zero trust.

Zayo Group

Employment

The posts are written from inside Zayo: “We’re hiring at Zayo,” “our team,” and “At Zayo, we take that responsibility seriously.”

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Edwards uses the company’s first person to recruit a Director, Data & Cloud Security and a Senior Manager, Compliance & Government Security, and to describe Zayo’s work supporting critical infrastructure and regulated industries. The posts establish the employer relationship but not a job title; ask for their current title.

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C2 ISAC

Disclosed partnership

Edwards states, “I am honored to serve as a Director on the C2 ISAC Board” at the Communications Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Center, which Zayo joined as a founding member alongside AT&T, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Lumen Technologies, T-Mobile, and Verizon.

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The post discloses organizational board service, not a paid sponsorship or client engagement.

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CLEAR

Mention

Edwards announced joining a CLEAR-hosted panel in New York City on June 9 with leaders across cybersecurity, identity, fraud, and AI.

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The post describes a conference appearance and the views they planned to share about operationalizing zero trust at Zayo, not a sponsorship or partnership.

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Topics and similar creators

Shawn Edwards posts about cybersecurity where communications networks, cloud platforms and regulated government work meet.

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Start with the Communications Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Center announcement, which sets out the collective-defense argument for telecom infrastructure, then read the CLEAR panel post on zero trust and identity.

  • The two Zayo hiring posts show where the security program is investing on the cloud and data side and in federal compliance.
  • For adjacent reading, Pete Cordero writes executive briefing questions on nation-state and ransomware threats, Keith Mayfield argues the FedRAMP business case for cloud providers selling into the defense market, and Thomas Ward covers CMMC and NIST 800-171 for contractors handling controlled unclassified information.
Cybersecurity Critical infrastructure security Telecommunications Zero trust Cloud security FedRAMP CMMC Security leadership Security hiring posts Industry announcements Security leaders Defense contractors

Pete Cordero, CPA, CISSP, CISA, FBI (Ret.)

Both write cybersecurity material for people who set direction rather than operate tools.

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Cordero's 2025 program update lays out questions executives should put to their CISOs, covering China-linked APT activity, ransomware, breach costs and frameworks. Shawn Edwards also frames security as a leadership and sector problem, from the C2 ISAC board role to zero trust that does not slow the business down.

Cordero publishes a recurring, structured briefing format—numbered parts, threat categories and executive question lists—drawing on a retired FBI and audit background.

  • Shawn Edwards' posts are shorter organizational updates tied to Zayo, covering sector body participation, an event panel and open security roles.
  • They offer institutional context rather than a continuous teaching series.

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Keith Mayfield

Both work at the intersection of cloud and defense-sector compliance, treating FedRAMP and CMMC as decisions that shape which companies can compete.

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Shawn Edwards' compliance and government security post names CMMC, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, DFARS, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS. Mayfield's posts build the same case around the FedRAMP Moderate requirement for DoD supply-chain cloud services.

Mayfield advocates for the vendor side of the market, presenting FedRAMP certification as a moat that disqualifies rivals and shortens sales cycles, and closes with direct calls to start a conversation. Shawn Edwards writes from inside a communications provider, presenting compliance and cloud security as internal programs to staff and mature, without a commercial pitch.

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Thomas Ward

Both concentrate on CMMC, NIST SP 800-171 and the obligations that remain on organizations handling controlled unclassified information, addressing defense contractors deciding how to prepare.

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Ward's post on the CMMC Phase II pause focuses on controls, gap remediation and sustainable programs. Shawn Edwards' compliance post covers the same frameworks and the leadership scope around them.

Ward pairs advisory thought leadership with direct service offers such as a fractional CISO, gap assessments and a complimentary strategy call, while also reflecting on running a nonprofit. Shawn Edwards focuses on organizational announcements.

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Audience

The only measured audience figure is a LinkedIn follower count of 14,913, recorded on 9 October 2026 for the account that published the four posts.

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The posts point to a professional, sector-specific readership: Edwards writes about Zayo as a founding member of C2 ISAC alongside AT&T, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Lumen, T-Mobile and Verizon; security leadership hiring spanning CMMC, FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, SOC 2 and ISO 27001; and a New York panel on operationalizing zero trust.

  • Before committing to a zero-trust and critical-infrastructure webinar, ask Edwards for audience survey results or documented follower breakdowns by seniority, job function, employer type and geography, plus recent post-level reach for comparable cybersecurity topics and formats.
  • These details will show whether the audience fits the webinar.

LinkedIn followers

14,913

LinkedIn profile for the account that published the reviewed posts · 2026-10-09

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Partnership options

Shawn Edwards's posts show institutional and role-based collaboration, not a published sponsorship or paid-partnership offering.

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They sit on the board of C2 ISAC, the Communications Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Center, which Zayo Group co-founded alongside AT&T, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Lumen Technologies, T-Mobile and Verizon to share threat indicators and operational lessons across the communications sector.

  • They also appeared on a panel at CLEAR's Mission-Ready Identity event in New York on June 9, speaking about operationalizing zero trust beyond the perimeter at Zayo.
  • Other posts are Zayo hiring notices for a Senior Manager, Compliance & Government Security and a Director, Data & Cloud Security.
  • The panel and coalition work are the closest visible opportunities for a co-marketing webinar on zero trust and critical-infrastructure security.
  • Before committing a budget, ask Edwards or Zayo to confirm available formats, fees and who handles inbound requests.
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Campaign fit

A campaign to shortlist

Good fit: a telecommunications cybersecurity vendor asks whether Shawn Edwards should host or co-host a webinar on zero trust and critical infrastructure security, with a co-marketing component.

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Their public posts support the concept.

  • They sit on the board of C2 ISAC, the Communications Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Center, which Zayo co-founded with AT&T, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Lumen, T-Mobile and Verizon.
  • They speak about sector-wide threat sharing in terms a vendor can build on: sharing indicators, vulnerabilities, tactics and operational lessons inside a trusted environment so the whole sector gets better at anticipating, detecting and responding.
  • They have also spoken publicly on exactly this subject, promoting a June 9 panel at CLEAR's Mission-Ready Identity event in New York on operationalizing zero trust beyond the perimeter and reducing risk without slowing the business.
  • That panel brought identity, fraud and AI into the same conversation, giving a vendor room to extend the topic beyond perimeter controls.
  • Their communication style suits co-marketing: they announce industry milestones, describe security programs through hiring posts, and promote external events with registration links.
  • A partner offer with a clear, shareable call to action fits how they already use the channel.
  • Two conditions matter before budgeting.
  • Their posts do not describe sponsorship formats, fees, approval steps or an inquiry route, so confirm a co-marketing arrangement directly with Edwards or Zayo rather than assuming one from the C2 ISAC and panel posts.
  • Audience composition is also unmeasured: the only available figure is a LinkedIn follower count of 14,913 for the account that published the posts, with no seniority, job function, employer-type or geography data to show a senior security buying audience.
  • Fit is strong on topic, credibility and demonstrated willingness to speak publicly; commercial terms and audience make-up remain unproven.

When to choose a specialist

Poor fit: a direct-to-consumer or broad-market brand wants a paid endorsement post with defined deliverables, a fixed fee, product claims and conversion tracking.

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Their public posts provide no basis for that arrangement.

  • All four posts are institutional or recruiting in nature, not product placements: a coalition announcement about C2 ISAC founding membership and their board seat, two Zayo hiring posts covering security and compliance leadership roles, and a panel promotion for a CLEAR identity event.
  • None shows a sponsored post, rate, deliverable spec, exclusivity terms or approval process, so a campaign that depends on standard sponsored-content mechanics would be built on guesswork.
  • Audience information is also a poor fit for a consumer or conversion-led campaign.
  • The only measured figure is 14,913 LinkedIn followers for the publishing account, with no demographic survey or engagement data; follower totals cannot establish who those followers are or whether they buy a given product.
  • Another poor-fit variant is a vendor seeking a hands-on technical tutorial series on cloud security architecture or IAM.
  • The hiring posts list those areas as program scope for roles Edwards is recruiting into, which shows where the organization is adding capability—not that they personally teach implementation detail.
  • A campaign that needs step-by-step practitioner instruction from Edwards personally is not supported by the posts.
  • A vendor with a security product can still approach the same material through a strategic or sector-level format that matches how they communicate.
A worked campaign example

Worked campaign angle: a co-marketing webinar on zero trust and critical infrastructure security.

  • The premise: what communications providers actually share when a threat hits, and how zero trust decisions get made across a network footprint that cannot afford downtime.
  • Opening section: Edwards frames the problem at sector level, using the C2 ISAC argument that telecommunications infrastructure is foundational to the economy, national security and public safety, and that trusted collaboration plus collective defense is the only realistic way to protect it.
  • Middle section: move from coalition to operations, using their framing of zero trust beyond the perimeter and reducing risk without slowing the business, and connect it to identity, fraud and AI-driven threats, as they did on the June 9 panel.
  • Closing section: a joint next step; their posts show they are comfortable promoting an event with a registration link and asking an audience to act.
  • A format suited to their posts: a 45 to 60 minute live session, one or two carrier-side voices alongside the vendor, an edited recap asset afterward, and a registration link promoted from their LinkedIn account, as with the CLEAR panel.
  • Do not build the session as a product walkthrough; make it a peer discussion with the vendor as sponsor and co-host, the format best matched to their public posts.
  • Before committing budget, confirm five things: whether Edwards can participate in a vendor co-marketing session given their Zayo affiliation; whether any work covered by C2 ISAC may be described publicly and at what level of detail; who approves promotional copy and use of their name and likeness; commercial terms, since their posts do not describe formats, fees or an inquiry route; and audience information, ideally survey results or documented follower breakdowns by seniority, function, employer type and geography, plus recent post-level reach on comparable cybersecurity topics.
  • If those answers check out, the webinar concept moves from plausible to executable.
  • If they cannot speak as a Zayo representative, a narrower version remains viable: a personal-capacity panel appearance on zero trust in critical infrastructure, with the vendor handling production and promotion.
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Who else to consider

Pete Cordero CPA, CISSP, CISA, FBI (Ret.)

For the same co-marketing webinar brief, consider Pete Cordero if the vendor wants to center the session on executive questions for CISOs, incident readiness, and nation-state threats rather than telecommunications infrastructure or zero trust.

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In two posts about a cybersecurity program update, Cordero turns topics such as ransomware, Volt Typhoon, and Salt Typhoon into questions leaders can ask about frameworks, backups, threat hunting, and response. That gives the webinar a practical executive-governance structure.

Cordero’s posts do not show discussion of telecommunications, C2 ISAC, or zero trust, making the connection to a telecommunications-sector campaign less direct. The posts identify video-program segments; ask about availability and commercial terms.

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Keith Mayfield

Consider Keith Mayfield if the vendor’s priority is explaining the intersection of FedRAMP and CMMC to cloud providers or defense contractors, rather than convening a discussion about zero trust in critical infrastructure.

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One post explains why cloud-based DoD suppliers may need FedRAMP Moderate authorization or equivalency; another presents FedRAMP as a qualification and sales advantage in the federal market. Those examples give the webinar a clear compliance-and-market-access premise.

This is a narrower match for the proposed telecommunications cybersecurity webinar.

  • Mayfield’s posts do not show discussion of communications-sector threat sharing or zero trust.
  • They include a direct business call to action; ask about webinar availability, commercial terms, and audience composition.

Examples: Source 1 · Source 2

Thomas Ward

Consider Thomas Ward if the vendor wants the webinar to focus on CMMC readiness, NIST SP 800-171, and practical compliance planning.

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In a post about a CMMC program pause, Ward advises organizations to keep improving controls, documenting procedures, and reducing risk rather than treating certification timing as the whole objective. That supports a session built around how organizations can make compliance work in day-to-day operations.

This is a different buyer conversation from Shawn Edwards’s proposed zero-trust and critical-infrastructure discussion.

  • The reviewed CMMC post describes Ward’s advisory services and offers a strategy call, but does not show experience with telecommunications-sector threat sharing or zero trust.
  • A separate post describes Ward’s interim nonprofit leadership.
  • Ask about relevance to this webinar topic, availability, and commercial terms.

Examples: Source 1 · Source 2

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Worked example: zero trust and critical infrastructure webinar

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Research methodology

  • This page draws on four LinkedIn posts from 2026: the announcement that Zayo is a founding member of C2 ISAC, the Communications Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Center, and that Shawn Edwards serves as a Director on its board; a promotion for a June 9 CLEAR panel on operationalizing zero trust beyond the perimeter; and two Zayo hiring posts, for a Director, Data & Cloud Security and a Senior Manager, Compliance & Government Security.
  • All four posts were read in full.
  • The posts establish Edwards' sector positions, public speaking topic and the areas the security program is staffing, but they do not give an exact job title.
  • No articles, talks, transcripts or earlier material were available, so earlier career history, signature books, shows and other bodies of work remain an open gap rather than an inferred claim.
  • Similar-creator comparisons draw on six further LinkedIn posts from Pete Cordero, Keith Mayfield and Thomas Ward dated June 2025 to October 2026.

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