Defining Your Consultancy Niche Part 2 with Scott Piper

Published: Jan. 21, 2021, 11 a.m.

b'Scott Piper is an AWS security consultant at Summit Route, a company he founded in 2017. He\\u2019s also the developer of flaws.cloud and an organizer for the virtual fwd:cloudsec conference. Scott brings 15 years of tech experience to his current position, having worked as director of security at a cybersecurity company, a security engineer at Yelp, and a software engineer at the NSA, among other positions.\\n\\nJoin Corey and Scott as they talk about why Scott decided to start an AWS security consultancy, what it was like for Scott to quit his job only to find out the people he thought needed his services wanted him to work for free, how Scott came around to building CloudMapper and CloudTracker, what both of those tools do, why it\\u2019s important to define what kind of consultant you are going to be and find your niche, the psychological aspect of running your own business, and more.'