The Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification is considered to be the gold standard in information security. This is so because of all the doors that certification opens to a CISSP professional. Those doors lead to many different types of positions and opportunities, thus making the information security community dynamic and multifaceted.
In this installment, we talk to AJ Yawn. AJ tells us about his motivation for setting it up his own business, his passion for mentoring and opening up pathways into cybersecurity, and why he thinks (ISC)² Chapters are a great place for networking and accelerating your career.
What job do you do today?
I am the co-founder and CEO at ByteChek, a cybersecurity Software as a Service (SaaS) company.
What sorts of problems do you solve at your company?
We are focused on cybersecurity compliance assessments, most specifically, System and Organization Controls (SOC2). We help business-to-business organizations, that is, any business that provides a service. We help them achieve their compliance goals. If that company has to earn a SOC2, our platform helps take away all of the manual and time-consuming processes associated with those assessments. We automatically collect evidence, gathering the required assessment documents. The tool we use is accessible to the auditors, to facilitate the completion of the engagement. So it's all about cybersecurity compliance, and automation.
It sounds like it is all about helping your clients, making life easier for them.
Exactly. Our tagline is “Make Compliance Suck Less,” and what you just described is literally the whol ..
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