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

Cyber Security & Cloud Podcast

Sep 12, 2021•18 min•Season 1Ep. 7

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Episode description

CSCP is bringing back season 1 in a newly remastered version.

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

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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.

1:21 Part 1 with Allan

2:30 Masters

3:16 Advice on security awareness

4:23 Multi-factor authentication

7:35 Consumer pressure for security

8:35 Kinds of CISO

10:50 Communication and leadership skills

15:34 Hiring and learning of the job

17:51 Closing words

18:20 Outro

Allan Alford, CISO, Host of Cyber Ranch Podcast

Twitter @AllanAlfordinTX