Passing Enterprise Security Reviews For B2B SaaS Leaders

5 Days

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Cohort-based Course

Gain confidence in your security posture, reduce sales friction, and win enterprise clients!

Previously at

MasterClass
Justworks
Chainalysis
Casper
Autodesk

Course overview

Overcome the complexity of enterprise security teams.

Master the art of navigating and negotiating with enterprise security teams. Take an offensive approach early on and save time and headache in the long run. Handle security questionnaires with ease and confidence.

Who this course is for...

01

Founder, CEO, CTO, COO, Product Manager of SaaS Startups

02

SaaS Leaders frustrated and confused by long security questionnaires and multiple policy templates.

03

Startups looking to sell upmarket

What you’ll get out of this course

Real World Examples

We'll go through real world examples of questionnaires and understand how to best answer them as a SaaS business.

Build A Offensive Security Posture

Understand the key components an enterprise security team is looking for when they view your company. We'll walk you through the steps to build an offensive defense towards security reviews, reducing friction for your sales teams.

Connect Better With Enterprise Security Teams

Security is not Black and White, but instead 50 Shades Of Grey. Understand the thought process of an enterprise security team, and learn how to politically navigate and negotiate, even when you don't have SOC 2 in place.

BONUS: Learn Good Security While At It

Although not a main objective of a course, you will get a glimpse of how to bake in good product security in your app, which should reduce friction in security reviews.

This course includes

1 interactive live session

Lifetime access to course materials

In-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

1 projects to apply learning

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Jun 19—Jun 23

    Jun

    6

    Office Hours

    Tue 6/68:00 PM—9:00 PM (UTC)

    Why Enterprises so security reviews and questionnaires?

    0 items

    Understanding Security Questionnaires

    1 item

What people are saying

        I worked with Ayman at MasterClass & Emeritus. I highly recommend working with his firm to do a risk audit that generates actionable prioritized tasks based on business risk to improve your security posture. He is great for both early stage and late stage startups..
Ajay Varia

Ajay Varia

Co-Founder of Growth Nirvana, Former VPE @ Masterclass
        Ayman is knowledgeable on security and up-to-date. He helped prioritize the always difficult task of security TODOs without bullshit or being salesy. He pushed me when I needed to be without being annoying. He explained things well, answered general questions independent of cloud work.
Jonathan Mortensen

Jonathan Mortensen

Founder, CTO Bit.io

Meet your instructor

Ayman Elsawah

Ayman Elsawah

Fractional CISO and Founder

I have worked on both sides of the fences, from large Enterprise Security Teams to Small SaaS Startups.


✅Compliance: I have helped companies with compliance and certification efforts including SOC 2 and ISO.


👨🏼‍🚒Incident Response: I have run firsthand incident response for companies several times in multiple scenarios, including internal and external investigations. I also understand the nuances and importance of having a well executed and rehearsed IR/Communication plan as well keeping leadership informed to help make the right decisions.


🛣️Roadmaps: I have a founder’s mentality and product management mindset and understand the difficulty of managing priorities in Engineering. I’ve put together multiple security roadmaps and budgets and have worked with product leaders to influence their product roadmaps.


🫱🏽‍🫲🏽Team Building: Expert in hiring and recruiting technical and skilled leaders and ICs. As someone with a technical and leadership background and entrepreneur, I know very well the importance of hiring and how to screen people, ask the right questions, and measure their soft and hard skills. I have helped and led the hiring of CISO’s, Directors, and ICs.


I am also an 📖author, 📰writer, 🎙️podcast host, and 🗣️public speaker.


Connect with me on LinkedIN and Twitter.

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Course schedule

3 Hours

  • Tuesdays & Thursdays

    1:00pm - 2:00pm PT


  • June 20th, 202


  • Weekly projects

    3 hours per week


Free resource

5 Steps To Take The Offensive On Security

Tired of dealing with security questionnaires or dealing with security teams?


Take the offensive on your security posture, ask the right questions. and reduce the likelihood of having to answer 300 security questions just for a Proof of Concept (POC)!

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Learning is better with cohorts

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Active hands-on learning

We'll go through real world scenarios on how to take the offensive for security.

Interactive and project-based

We'll examine real world security questionnaires.

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

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