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Passing Enterprise Security Reviews For B2B SaaS Leaders

5 Days

Cohort-based Course

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

Passing Enterprise Security Reviews For B2B SaaS Leaders

5 Days

Cohort-based Course

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

Hosted by

Ayman Elsawah

Fractional SaaS CISO with clients such as Casper, Masterclass, and Justworks.

Ayman Elsawah

Fractional SaaS CISO with clients such as Casper, Masterclass, and Justworks.

Previously at

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...

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

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

Startups looking to sell upmarket

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

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

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 project to apply learnings

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

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Week 1
Jun 19—Jun 23
Week dates are set to instructor's time zone
Modules
Why Enterprises so security reviews and questionnaires?
Why Enterprises so security reviews and questionnaires?
0 Lessons • 0 Projects
Understanding Security Questionnaires
Understanding Security Questionnaires
1 Project

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

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

Founder, CTO Bit.io

Meet your instructor

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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