Top 20 LinkedIn Creators on Cybersecurity (2026)

What changed in the top 20 LinkedIn cybersecurity creators since our last ranking

The pool is larger this time: 160 active cybersecurity creators, against 141 in our previous edition.

Thirteen names are new in this top 20, and they take the first two places: Pascal Bornet at #1 and Alex Xu at #2. Chuck Keith enters at #4, and the ten other new names sit further down.

No returning creator climbs. Brian Krebs holds #3 and Yasmine Douadi #7, and the other five returners all rank lower than before, Rinki Sethi furthest, from #6 to #15.

Thirteen creators from our previous top 20 are no longer in it.

#20 · Ayoub Fandi, 181 median likes per cybersecurity post

Ayoub Fandi writes GRC Engineer, a weekly newsletter on governance, risk and compliance, and is new in this edition. Cybersecurity is 7% of his feed, yet those posts earn 248% more than his overall median, the second-largest premium in the top 20.

His cybersecurity median climbed from 43 in 2024 to 87 in 2025 and 186 so far in 2026, roughly doubling each year. His 0.89% engagement rate also puts him second in the efficiency table below.

"I'm very excited to announce I'm starting today at Lovable as a GRC Engineer." His most liked post tagged cybersecurity by our classifier, a job announcement: 1,036 likes and 202 comments, 7 times his median comment count. Read it

#19 · Tom Le, 183 median likes per cybersecurity post

Tom Le writes satire about security work and is new in this edition. His cybersecurity median rose from 63 in 2025 to 183 so far in 2026, on a similar number of posts.

On 13k followers, his 1.45% engagement rate is the second-highest in the top 20, but the account sits under the 20k floor of the efficiency table below.

"I’m a CISO. I don't 'do' security; I 'orchestrate resilience.'" His most liked cybersecurity post of the year, written in the voice of the executive it mocks: 1,554 likes, more than 8 times his median. Read it

#18 · Mickaël S., 185 median likes per cybersecurity post

Mickaël S. is an operating partner in France who works with chief executives on go-to-market restructuring, and he is new in this edition. Just under 10k followers, he is the smallest account in the top 20 and has its highest engagement rate, 1.92%.

His cybersecurity posts earn 741% more than his overall median of 22 likes, the largest premium on this page, on 13 of his 72 posts.

"Ce n'est pas vos 200 000 € d'investissement cyber qui vous ont trahi, mais votre économie de 800 €." His most liked cybersecurity post of the year, an incident story relayed from his firm's forensic team: 1,138 likes, 6 times his median.

#17 · Marcel Velica, 188 median likes per cybersecurity post

Marcel Velica, a fractional CISO and AI governance advisor, is new in this edition. He posts rarely, 20 times in 12 months, and 15 of those posts are about cybersecurity.

His audience answers back: a median of 106 comments on 188 likes, the highest comment ratio in our cybersecurity pool among creators with 100+ median likes (more on that below).

"Top 50 Cybersecurity Companies in 2026: Who’s Leading the Industry?" His most liked cybersecurity post of the year, a ranked list of vendors: 1,601 likes and 465 comments, more than 8 times his median. Read it

#16 · Henna Virkkunen, 234 median likes per cybersecurity post

Henna Virkkunen, whose headline reads Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, is new in this edition. She enters on exactly 10 cybersecurity posts, the minimum we require.

Her audience reads more than it replies: a median of 11 comments, the lowest in the top 20. Her 0.46% engagement rate is fifth in the efficiency table below.

"Security, justice and technological sovereignty are often discussed separately. Visiting The Hague today, it was clear how closely they belong together." Her most liked cybersecurity post of the year, posted during a visit: 403 likes, the smallest best post in the top 20. Read it

#15 · Rinki Sethi, 238 median likes per cybersecurity post

Rinki Sethi, CISO and chief security officer at Upwind Security and formerly CISO at Twitter, is down from #6 in our previous edition. Cybersecurity is 58% of her feed, and her 0.61% engagement rate ranks third in the efficiency table below.

"In five years, the security team you're building today won't exist." Her most liked cybersecurity post of the year, a forecast on how security teams will be organized: 1,417 likes and 124 comments, 6 times her median likes and 7 times her median comments. Read it

#14 · Aruneesh Salhotra, 242 median likes per cybersecurity post

Aruneesh Salhotra, a founder, investor and CISO, is new in this edition and leads our cybersecurity pool on engagement rate among accounts over 20k followers: 1.09% on 22k followers, first in the efficiency table below.

His audience comments readily too, with a median of 68 comments, one for every 3.6 likes.

"I stood in front of a living wall in Madrid last week and couldn't stop thinking about DLP." His most liked cybersecurity post of the year, built on a single extended analogy: 478 likes, twice his median. Read it

#13 · Brij Kishore Pandey, 248 median likes per cybersecurity post

Brij Kishore Pandey, an AI architect who runs a newsletter for AI builders, is new in this edition. Cybersecurity is 2% of his 642-post year, and those 15 posts earn 38% less than his overall median, the steepest discount in the top 20.

His 0.03% engagement rate, on 741k followers, is the second-lowest here.

"Your AI agent’s security boundary extends to the infrastructure carrying every request." His most liked cybersecurity post of the year, tagged #CiscoSecurityPartner: 416 likes and 111 comments. Read it

#12 · Marcus Hutchins, 267 median likes per cybersecurity post

Marcus Hutchins, whose headline reads malware, threat intelligence and ex-hacker, is down from #5 in our previous edition. He published 179 cybersecurity posts in 12 months, the most in the top 20, and they earn 36% more than his overall median.

His opening lines run 40 words on average, the longest among the top-20 creators we hold writing data for.

"To be clear: Mythos finding a 27 year old vulnerability in the BSD kernel doesn't mean it found a bug that went unnoticed for 27 years" His most liked cybersecurity post of the year, a pushback on how the findings of an AI model were read: 2,383 likes, 9 times his median, the widest gap in the top 20. Read it

#11 · Jen Easterly, 270 median likes per cybersecurity post

Jen Easterly, chief executive of RSAC, is down from #10 in our previous edition. Cybersecurity is 64% of her feed, with 82 posts in 12 months.

Her audience likes far more than it replies: a median of 13 comments, one for every 21 likes.

"A controlled, collaborative release of perhaps the most powerful cyber capability ever" Her most liked cybersecurity post of the year, published the same day as Ethan Mollick's (#9): 1,400 likes and 178 comments, 14 times her median comment count. Read it

#10 · Helen Yu, 292 median likes per cybersecurity post

Helen Yu hosts CXO Spice and advises technology leaders on responsible AI, and she is down from #8 in our previous edition. Her median of 120 comments is second only to Pascal Bornet's in the top 20, which puts her third in the comment ranking below.

Her cybersecurity median held steady, 309 in 2025 and 298 so far in 2026, on more than three times as many posts.

"Can you prove your organization is defensible?" Her most liked cybersecurity post of the year: 504 likes and 236 comments, about one comment for every two likes. Read it

#9 · Ethan Mollick, 301 median likes per cybersecurity post

Ethan Mollick, an associate professor at the Wharton School and author of Co-Intelligence, is new in this edition. He publishes 707 posts a year, so his 17 cybersecurity posts are 2% of his feed, and they earn 13% less than his overall median.

His posts are the shortest among the top-20 creators we hold writing data for, 62 words on average.

"Curious how many large organization CISO offices have taken the Claude Mythos red team report as the red alert that it is. (I suspect very few)" His most liked cybersecurity post of the year: 876 likes, 3 times his median. Like Marcus Hutchins (#12), he drew his best post of the year from Mythos. Read it

#8 · Sascha Pallenberg, 357 median likes per cybersecurity post

Sascha Pallenberg, a Taiwan-based creator who posts in German, is new in this edition. Cybersecurity is 9% of his feed, 12 posts, and those posts earn 14% less than his overall median.

His audience comments readily, with a median of 72 comments, one for every 5 likes.

"Mein Service fuer all die, die in den naechsten Monaten eine USA-Reise planen oder gar den Korruptionsfestspielen der #FIFA beiwohnen wollen" His most liked cybersecurity post of the year, written in German, lists what the US Department of Homeland Security plans for visitors: 2,462 likes, 7 times his median. Read it

#7 · Yasmine Douadi, 387 median likes per cybersecurity post

Yasmine Douadi decodes cyber and tech news in French and runs a cyber media company. She holds #7 from our previous edition, and cybersecurity is 77% of her feed, the highest share in the top 20, on 163 posts.

Her cybersecurity median went from 197 in 2023 to 301 in 2024, 280 in 2025 and 403 so far in 2026. Her posts are the longest among the top-20 creators we hold writing data for, 394 words on average.

"Un ancien directeur de colonie de vacances a piégé en ligne plus de 70 adolescents en se faisant passer pour une fille de 16 ans" Her most liked cybersecurity post of the year, a criminal case retold step by step: 3,058 likes, 8 times her median and the single biggest best post in the top 20. Read it

#6 · Nicholas Thompson, 394 median likes per cybersecurity post

Nicholas Thompson, chief executive of The Atlantic, is new in this edition and has the biggest audience in the ranking, 1.6 million followers. His 0.02% engagement rate is the lowest of the top 20.

Cybersecurity is 2% of his feed, 11 of 477 posts, and those posts earn 50% more than his overall median.

"The most interesting thing in tech: Israel reportedly hacked Iran's traffic cameras and had total vision into the movements of Ayatollah Khamenei and his guards." His most liked cybersecurity post of the year, a news item framed as a tech story: 1,155 likes, 3 times his median. Read it

#5 · saed, 404 median likes per cybersecurity post

A senior security engineer at Google, saed is down from #2 in our previous edition. Cybersecurity is 74% of his feed, and his 170 posts on it put him first in the volume table below, with 94,103 likes.

His cybersecurity median fell from 615 in 2025 to 370 so far in 2026, on almost twice as many posts.

"Security: 'Can we roll back?' Mainframe team: 'To which decade?'" His most liked cybersecurity post of the year, a two-line joke: 2,968 likes, 7 times his median. Read it

#4 · Chuck Keith, 409 median likes per cybersecurity post

Chuck Keith, whose headline reads simply NetworkChuck, is new in this edition. Cybersecurity is 13% of his feed, 25 posts, and they earn 31% more than his overall median.

His audience rarely replies: one comment for every 27 likes, on an engagement rate of 0.08%.

"Hide your server from hackers, disable simple ping-based discovery and go stealthy" His most liked cybersecurity post of the year, a single firewall rule to copy: 1,182 likes, 3 times his median. Read it

#3 · Brian Krebs, 422 median likes per cybersecurity post

Brian Krebs, the investigative reporter behind KrebsOnSecurity, holds #3 from our previous edition. He is the highest-ranked creator here who gives cybersecurity most of his feed: 76%, or 61 of his 80 posts.

Those posts earn 13% less than his overall median of 484. He is also fifth in total cybersecurity likes, on far fewer posts than the four above him.

His most liked cybersecurity post of the year, a download warning for Windows users, drew 1,980 likes, 5 times his median. It is no longer public.

#2 · Alex Xu, 1,393 median likes per cybersecurity post

Alex Xu, co-founder of ByteByteGo and author of four best-selling books, is new in this edition at #2. Cybersecurity is 6% of his feed, 11 posts, and they earn 15% more than his overall median.

His audience replies less than any other in the top 20: one comment for every 34 likes.

"How does SSH work?" His most liked cybersecurity post of the year, a protocol explainer: 3,056 likes, 2 likes short of the biggest best post in the top 20. Read it

#1 · Pascal Bornet, 1,665 median likes per cybersecurity post

Pascal Bornet, an author and keynote speaker on AI and automation, is new in this edition and tops it with 1,665 median likes per cybersecurity post, 41 times the typical cybersecurity post we measured.

Cybersecurity is only 2% of his feed: 18 of 749 posts, from the most prolific account in the top 20. Those 18 posts earn 23% more than his overall median, and his median of 267 comments is the highest here.

His best post earned only 1.3 times his median, the smallest gap in the top 20: his rank rests on consistency.

"Why Your Organization Needs to 'Containerize' AI Agents Right Now" His most liked cybersecurity post of the year: 2,194 likes and 316 comments. Read it

Where do these cards come from? We computed every figure on this page from public posts with MagicPost's LinkedIn analytics: median engagement per theme, share of feed, premiums and trajectories, across 160 cybersecurity creators and 11,217 cybersecurity posts. Run it on your own profile, side by side with anyone on this list.

Which cybersecurity creators just missed the top 20?

Five names sit right behind the cut, all within 26 likes of number twenty:

Praveen Singh, at #22, is the most security-focused creator in these 25, at 89% of his feed. Florian Burnel, at #24, gives it 79%.

Jess Ramos, at #21, misses the cut by 14 likes. Simon Taylor, at #23, published 657 posts in 12 months, so his cybersecurity posts are 2% of his feed, yet they earn 28% more than his overall median.

Which LinkedIn cybersecurity creators have the highest engagement rate?

Raw likes flatter the largest followings, so divide by reach: engagement rate on cybersecurity posts, median likes divided by followers (20k followers and over). The order changes almost completely:

All five also sit in the top 20: Aruneesh Salhotra (#14), Ayoub Fandi (#20), Rinki Sethi (#15), saed (#5) and Henna Virkkunen (#16). None of the top four by median likes makes the table.

Two smaller accounts do better still but fall under the 20k floor: Mickaël S. (#18), at 1.92%, and Tom Le (#19), at 1.45%. The top 20 bottoms out at Nicholas Thompson's 0.02%. For how cybersecurity compares with other subjects, see our study of LinkedIn engagement rate by topic.

Which cybersecurity creators get the most total likes on LinkedIn?

One more cut counts the total likes on cybersecurity posts over 12 months, where frequent posters gain ground:

saed leads on 170 posts, and Yasmine Douadi lands just behind on 163. Brian Krebs reaches fifth on 61 posts, and Pascal Bornet seventh on just 18.

Two names come from outside the top 25, both high-volume: Mohamed Hamdi Ouardi, with 179 cybersecurity posts, and John Hammond, with 149.

Which LinkedIn cybersecurity creator gets the most comments per post?

This cut divides comments by likes. The record in our cybersecurity pool belongs to Marcel Velica (#17): 106 median comments against 188 median likes, about one comment for every 2 likes.

Inga Stirbyte, a CISO and technology executive, and Helen Yu (#10) complete the podium (counting creators with 100+ median likes). The typical top-20 creator gets one comment for every 9 likes.

Are the top LinkedIn cybersecurity creators full-time security voices?

Some are. Of the 160 creators who post cybersecurity consistently, 55 give it at least half their feed, and six of them reach this top 20: Yasmine Douadi (77%), Brian Krebs (76%), Marcel Velica (75%), saed (74%), Jen Easterly (64%) and Rinki Sethi (58%).

The top of the ranking belongs to part-timers, though. Pascal Bornet, Nicholas Thompson, Ethan Mollick and Brij Kishore Pandey each give cybersecurity 2% of their feed, and Alex Xu 6%.

AI runs through several best posts on this page: Pascal Bornet's and Brij Kishore Pandey's are about securing AI agents, and Ethan Mollick's and Marcus Hutchins's are about Claude Mythos.

The full-time voices keep close to their own median, from -19% (Marcel Velica) to +14% (Jen Easterly). The big swings come from part-timers: Mickaël S. (+741%, on 18% of his feed) and Ayoub Fandi (+248%, on 7%) on one side, Brij Kishore Pandey (-38%) on the other.

In all, 12 of the 20 earn more on cybersecurity than on their other posts, and 8 earn less.

The top 20 is mostly American: 14 creators are based in the United States, two each in the United Kingdom and France, and one each in Taiwan and Finland. Country by country rankings: the United States, the UK, France, the full series.

Next to this theme, see our ranking of the top LinkedIn AI creators and the top LinkedIn software development creators. And if showing up in these creators' comment sections is part of your plan, an engagement feed keeps it to a five-minute daily habit.

How we ranked the top LinkedIn cybersecurity creators

All of this is MagicPost's own research. We went through 11,217 cybersecurity posts from the last 12 months and ranked 160 creators by median likes on their cybersecurity posts.

Only creators with at least one post in the last 60 days are ranked. The method:

• Floors: at least 5,000 followers and 10 cybersecurity posts in the window; deleted posts excluded.

• Median rather than average: no single viral post can buy a place.

• Cybersecurity posts only: our own classifier tags each post's theme, and only cybersecurity posts count.

• Cybersecurity posts analyzed: the posts our dataset holds per creator, sometimes fewer than they published.

• Per creator: share of feed, premium over their own median, yearly trajectories, engagement rate and comment ratio.

Thirteen of the twenty medians rest on 10 to 25 cybersecurity posts, our #1's on 18, so a few posts can move a rank. Rankings refresh as the data does. No placement here was sponsored; every rank comes straight from the median.

Study them, then study yourself. With MagicPost you can analyze any cybersecurity creator the way we just did (median engagement by theme, share of feed, premiums, trajectory) and benchmark your own profile against the pool. The data on this page is the product.