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 cybersecurity6:14 “You must build the team that has integrity”12:24 Emerging cybersecurity tech and browser security20:47 Getting the buy-in for cybersecurity tools27:18 Compliance does not equate to sound security🔔 Follow Aamir and Aleksandra on:https://www.linkedin.com/in/aniazi/https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksandra-melnikova-1012/🔥 Powered by SquareXDeployed as a lightweight extension, SquareX turns any browser, on any device, into a secure enterprise browser. Find out more about SquareX at https://hubs.la/Q03rPcbf0

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