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Building Great Cybersecurity Teams | Aamir Niazi, Executive Director/CISO, SMBC Capital Markets

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Aamir Niazi, Executive Director and CISO at SMBC Capital Markets, shares his unfiltered 18-year journey from engineer to leading cybersecurity teams in financial services. Aamir gets honest about hiring mistakes, building remote teams during COVID, browser security challenges, getting executive buy-in, and the challenges of transitioning from hands-on practitioner to strategic leader.
0:00 Transiting from IT engineer to cybersecurity
6:14 “You must build the team that has integrity”
12:24 Emerging cybersecurity tech and browser security
20:47 Getting the buy-in for cybersecurity tools
27:18 Compliance does not equate to sound security
🔔 Follow Aamir and Aleksandra on:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aniazi/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksandra-melnikova-1012/

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Chapters

1. Transiting from IT engineer to cybersecurity (00:00:00)

2. “You must build the team that has integrity” (00:06:14)

3. Emerging cybersecurity tech and browser security (00:12:24)

4. Getting the buy-in for cybersecurity tools (00:20:47)

5. Compliance does not equate to sound security (00:27:18)

61 episodes

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Aamir Niazi, Executive Director and CISO at SMBC Capital Markets, shares his unfiltered 18-year journey from engineer to leading cybersecurity teams in financial services. Aamir gets honest about hiring mistakes, building remote teams during COVID, browser security challenges, getting executive buy-in, and the challenges of transitioning from hands-on practitioner to strategic leader.
0:00 Transiting from IT engineer to cybersecurity
6:14 “You must build the team that has integrity”
12:24 Emerging cybersecurity tech and browser security
20:47 Getting the buy-in for cybersecurity tools
27:18 Compliance does not equate to sound security
🔔 Follow Aamir and Aleksandra on:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aniazi/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksandra-melnikova-1012/

🔥 Powered by SquareX
Deployed as a lightweight extension, SquareX turns any browser, on any device, into a secure enterprise browser. Find out more about SquareX at https://hubs.la/Q03rPcbf0

  continue reading

Chapters

1. Transiting from IT engineer to cybersecurity (00:00:00)

2. “You must build the team that has integrity” (00:06:14)

3. Emerging cybersecurity tech and browser security (00:12:24)

4. Getting the buy-in for cybersecurity tools (00:20:47)

5. Compliance does not equate to sound security (00:27:18)

61 episodes

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