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Baan Alsinawi: Trust ourselves and be courageous. [Compliance] [Career Notes]

CyberWire Daily

N2K Networks, Inc.

Technology, Daily News, News, Tech News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy this encore of the Managing Director at Cerberus Sentinel, Chief Compliance Officer and the President of TalaTek, Baan Alsinawi as she shares her cybersecurity journey from a teenager who wanted to understand computers and held several positions in IT from help desk to systems engineering and cybersecurity. Founding her own business focusing on compliance, Baan says she spends maybe only 20% of her day on technical tasks and that there is always so more to do. Finding the right people for her team is a marker of success for Baan. She talks of the importance of sharing the sense of community of women in technology and nurturing women in the field. We thank Baan for sharing her story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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My name is Bonn Sinoe, and I am the managing director at Server Sentinel,

1:07.3

chief compliance officer, and the president of Talatek LLC. Thank you. a tech al-C.

1:20.4

I was a young 17-year-old who was looking at computers and thinking those are so cool and I really wanted to understand how they work and I wanted to be, you know, a computer person,

1:25.7

whatever that meant at the time for my inexperienced mind.

1:29.5

But I just felt that this is something new and nobody else knew what it is.

1:34.6

And I wanted to be the one who did.

1:37.5

I went to an engineering school, controlling systems engineering,

1:41.1

and really since then I have had any career you can think of in

1:46.6

and I would call it quote-unquote IT from help desk and managing desktops and

1:53.0

motherboards and VGA cards all the way to systems engineering, network engineering,

1:59.6

managing a variety of aspects of

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