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ByteChek Community Blogs

We believe in community and know that a diverse group of voices helps drive change and innovation. The guest blog section includes articles from ByteChek advisors, employees, friends, vendors, etc. that want to speak to the ByteChek community. If you know someone who would be interested in writing a guest post in the Monthly Byte, have them reach out directly to our team. 

How Maliq Passed AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Our team was busy the last few weeks improving their skills and investing in themselves, learn how Maliq passed the AWS CCP certification to kick-off 2021. Passing AWS CCP Tips

How Nick Passed AWS Certified Security-Specialty One of the most respected and difficult certifications in the cloud security industry is the AWS Security Specialty. For Nick, it was all about locking in, getting his hands dirty, and achieving a goal he set for himself. Learn about the resources he used and how he passed this difficult certification. Passing AWS Security Specialty Tips

Chris discusses how he passed AZ 500 and persevered through adversity The road to success is littered with mistakes, failures, and other shortcomings but if you persevere through the hard times, the payoff is worth it. Chris details how he overcame adversity and passed AZ-500. Overcoming adversity.

Founders Corner

Welcome to the ByteChek founders’ corner where Jeff and AJ will share updates about ByteChek, compliance, or the cybersecurity, cloud, and accounting industries. Want Jeff or AJ to write about something? Reach out to either one on LinkedIn. 

January Founders Update Jeff recaps the wild ride it’s been for ByteChek since launching in November of 2020. Jeff's Update

Perseverance, passion, and impact. USAToday featured an article on our co-founder and CEO AJ Yawn’s journey through his cybersecurity career and what led him to launch ByteChek. USAToday Feature.

ByteChek Releases Demos Publicly Everything we do at ByteChek is about transparency. We’ve allowed anyone to view demos of our product publicly on our site. Hear directly from AJ why we decided to publish these demos publicly. Learn More

ByteChek Product Updates

The latest and greatest from ByteChek, find out what the latest features we have released and how we are improving the platform to make compliance suck less. 

Yahoo Finance: ByteChek Does It Again... What did we do? Our system description feature is now generally available for all ByteChek users. You can quickly generate a draft Section 3 that meets DC-200 standards and accelerates your SOC 2 reporting process. YahooFinance Article

ByteChek is an official AWS partner Our team has been working diligently to strengthen our partnership with AWS and we’re happy to announce that we’ve officially achieved AWS Technology Partner status. Read more about what this partnership means and stay tuned for updates on how we are leveraging this partnership. 

New controls, UI updates & more We sprinted towards the end of 2020 like the rest of the world but while sprinting we released several new features on the ByteChek platform. Learn more about the new features here.

FAQ Videos are live We follow the data here at ByteChek. When we launched, the majority of our site visits were to our FAQ page in the ByteChek Learning Center. We responded to the demand by recording videos answering every question on our FAQ page. FAQ Page 

ByteChek in the News

Podcasts? Press Releases? New videos? We’ve been active in the cybersecurity community and wanted to make sure our community didn’t miss any of our past media engagements. 

Blumira Security Series Jeff, AJ, and Jamie joined Patrick Garrity from Blumira in their weekly security advisor series discussing SOC 2 for Third-Party Security, this was an engaging and fun conversation. If you missed it visit the Blumira website to watch the webinar on-demand.

LinkedIn Live Session with HireMilitary AJ spoke with Chris Thorne to discuss our partnership and how we are giving back to the veteran community and growing our team leveraging the DOD Skillbridge program. Learn more about AJ’s military background and journey into cybersecurity. HireMilitary LinkedIn Live Session

ByteChek & Hacker Valley Studio The last three episodes of our favorite cybersecurity podcast covered storytelling, cybersecurity, and ambient computing, and “getting back to happy” in our field. Check out the latest episodes of the great HVS podcast brought to you by ByteChek. HackerValley

ByteChek at the MACPA Annual Summit The ByteChek leadership team presented on SOC 2 and IT audit automation for both CPAs and industry, in this CPE session we discussed why the future of IT audits includes automation and CPAs leveraging cloud technologies. MACPA Webinar Video

What’s Coming Up for ByteChek?

SANS BIPOC in Cloud Security Forum Our CEO AJ Yawn will highlight why it's important to understand how cloud security professionals can implement automated, event-driven security controls in the cloud to reduce risks. SANSInstitute Registration Page

Chef Compliance as Code Webinar In this roundtable webinar, Chris Medina - Director Public Sector Practice – Chef at Progress Software and AJ Yawn – Co-Founder and CEO at ByteChek will discuss Compliance as Code and how it can be used to reach compliance automation. Chef Registration Page

NABCRMP Vendor Risk Management Panel Shonda and AJ from the ByteChek team will join industry experts on a panel discussing vendor risk management and SOC2 considerations. NABCRMP Registration Page