CSCP S01E07 - Allan Alford - Part 1 - CISO Talk, starting in cyber and basic 10 cyber steps to get started

<p></p> <p> </p> <p>CSCP is bringing back season 1 in a newly remastered version. </p> <p>This is the first part of 2 interviews with Allan Alford, Delivery CISO at NTT data and now CISO at TrustMAPP a cybersecurity startup like AppSec Phoenix</p> <p>The episode is brought you by AppSec Phoenix Ltd with the Phoenix platform you can make Vulnerability management for software and organization SMART.  Follow the tag #appsecsmart</p> <p><a href='https://www.appsecphoenix.com'>https://www.appsecphoenix.com</a> get a free 30-day licence quoting CSCP <a href='https://landing.appsecphoenix.com/register'>https://landing.appsecphoenix.com/register</a></p> <p class="p1">Allan Alford is an experienced CISO living in Texas. In part 1 of Francesco’s interview with Allan Alford, they discuss multi-factor authentication, the role of CISO, and getting started in cybersecurity. Logical and critical thinking skills are important to work in tech, but equally so are soft and people skills, like communication, leadership, and public speaking. </p> <p class="p1"> </p> <p class="p1">1:21 Part 1 with Allan</p> <p class="p1">2:30 Masters</p> <p class="p1">3:16 Advice on security awareness</p> <p class="p1">4:23 Multi-factor authentication</p> <p class="p1">7:35 Consumer pressure for security</p> <p class="p1">8:35 Kinds of CISO</p> <p class="p1">10:50 Communication and leadership skills</p> <p class="p1">15:34 Hiring and learning of the job</p> <p class="p1">17:51 Closing words</p> <p class="p1">18:20 Outro </p> <p class="p1"> </p> <p class="p1">Allan Alford, CISO, Host of Cyber Ranch Podcast </p> <p class="p1">Twitter<a href='https://twitter.com/AllanAlfordinTX%20'> @AllanAlfordinTX </a></p> <p class="p1"><a href='https://allanalford.com/the-cyber-ranch-podcast'>https://allanalford.com/the-cyber-ranch-podcast</a> </p> <p class="p1"><a href='https://hackervalley.com/cyberranch/'> https://hackervalley.com/cyberranch/</a></p> <p class="p1"><a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/allanalford/'> https://www.linkedin.com/in