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

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

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Chapters

• 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