Background
I have a BS in Cybersecurity from Purdue, and I work as a cloud security engineer at a Fortune 500 company. Identity, access, network boundaries, logging: the configuration work that determines how much damage an incident can do.
This company started at a bar. I got talking to a guy, he asked what I did, and once I told him he asked if I could help him out with something at his business. I said yes. That turned into real work, and the work turned into this.
What I found was that the part of my job I like most is building systems and watching people use them to improve their lives. That matters just as much at a company of twenty people as it does at one of twenty thousand. And at twenty, you get to see it happen.
The people who do this work well usually aren't available to businesses this size. They're expensive, and they're booked. But most of what makes a small environment secure isn't expensive. It's knowing what to enable, what to skip, and what order to do it in. That judgment is most of the value.
This company is mine, and that changes how I work. My name is on the agreement, the documentation, and the result, and you won't be handed to an account manager. It also means I take on a small number of projects at a time, but each one is tailored to you.
