Ayman Elsawah ☕👋🏼

Ayman Elsawah ☕👋🏼

San Francisco Bay Area
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    Cybersecurity, Information Security, Strategic Planning, and Executive Coaching

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I help startups looking to level up their security at any stage. Worked with Masterclass,…

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Publications

  • Last Week As A vCISO

    Self

    A weekly newsletter for B2B SaaS leaders looking to improve their cybersecurity posture.

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  • Reducing SIEM fatigue: Finding a signal in all the noise

    SC Magazine

    Interviewed for SC Magazine as a subject matter expert for SIEMs, especially for cloud based security.

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  • Breaking IN: A Practical Guide to Starting a Career in Information Security

    Self-Published

    In this book, you will learn:
    - The Information Security Culture
    - Different jobs in the Information Security Field
    - The passion needed to be successful in the field
    - What life is like as an Information Security Professional
    - How to find the information you're looking for
    - Next steps to educate yourself

    This book is designed to be the first book on your journey into a career in Information Security.


    This book is for:
    - Those looking for a career in…

    In this book, you will learn:
    - The Information Security Culture
    - Different jobs in the Information Security Field
    - The passion needed to be successful in the field
    - What life is like as an Information Security Professional
    - How to find the information you're looking for
    - Next steps to educate yourself

    This book is designed to be the first book on your journey into a career in Information Security.


    This book is for:
    - Those looking for a career in Information Security
    - Those looking to service the Information Security industry and want to understand more about it
    - Those who have been given the responsibility of Infosec (accidentally or not) and would like a primer on it

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Projects

  • Cloud Security Fundamentals

    Authored and filed DeAnza's first Cloud Security Class! Created the outline and objectives and worked with senior faculty to file for approval.

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  • Getting Into Information Security Podcast

    - Present

    Host and creator of the Getting Into Information Security Podcast. The aim is help those looking to get into the industry by learning from the experiences of others. There are so many different paths into the field and the hope is my audience will resonate with at least one of my guests.

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  • Federating the AWSCLI

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    Created a tool in Python that would allow AWS Engineers to use the awscli with temporary tokens. This was before more modern and opensource tools have come out. It was integrated with SSO (Shibboleth) and allowed users 8 hours of uninterrupted use until they have to re-authenticate again.

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  • Multi-Account Cloudtrail

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    Created a tool to enable and verify cloudtrail settings and centralize the log locations across multiple AWS accounts for a Fortune 1000 company .

    Note: This was before Cloudtrail was enabled by default, and before AWS Organizations.

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    “No matter the task, or situation, in two years of working with Ayman he never once let me down, and always delivered. Good security specialists are hard to find, guys like Ayman are rarer still. My recommendation, hire him in a heartbeat!”

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    “Ayman is a well rounded security professional.His knowledge on security architecture and assessments was always a go-to during any complex situations during our work tenure in securview.His technical knowledge and his ability to lead any critical situation always stood out to get the job done.It was always a pleasure to work with Ayman and I would wish him good luck”

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