Ayman Elsawah is a Fractional CISO (vCISO) for Cloud Security Labs. They specialize in providing CISO services to Start-Ups and Scale-Ups. After graduating with a Computer Science degree, his career progressed from Network Engineer to Cybersecurity Engineer to Cybersecurity Architect to Cloud Cybersecurity Consultant to Fractional CISO. He now provides coaching services, advisory services, and authors books and instructional courses online.

GUEST:

Ayman Elsawah - Fractional CISO at Cloud Security Labs

Ayman's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/infosecleader/

Ayman's Website: https://coffeewithayman.com/

Ayman's Fractional CISO Course: https://securitycafe.thinkific.com/courses/vciso-fractional-ciso-course

Timestamps:

2:25 - Favorite Movie & Music

4:45 - Coffee

8:17 - Ayman's Book & Podcast

9:22 - What He's Learned from Podcasting

11:52 - Top 5 Ways to Break into Cybersecurity

13:42 - How Ayman Landed in Cybersecurity

15:30 - Becoming Fractional

17:44 - Should You Go Fractional?

23:34 - Best Parts of Being Fractional

30:59 - Why Fractional is Becoming so Popular

40:26 - Social Selling

43:10 - BD Strategies for Landing Fractional Clients

45:34 - What's Happening in Cyber?

47:19 - Can Cyber Issues Be Solved with Hiring?

49:24 - Opportunities for American Workers

50:16 - What's Up with Ghost Job Postings?

54:41 - What He Does For Fun

HOST:

Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting

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