I don't see any issue hiring you, there is a drain of true talent in the field. Be upfront and spin your story like Kevin Mitnick, publish a few articles and m

I don't see any issue hiring you, there is a drain of true talent in the field. Be upfront and spin your story like Kevin Mitnick, publish a few articles and maintain a blog with your name and identity. Get a polished LinkedIn and post examples of past work, or what if's/what would you do. You most likely will not pass a background check for FINRA/Insurance companies, but who cares - those companies suck to work for anyway. You will/can easily bypass that wall by opening up your own LLC and selling consulting services, and verticals like "email security" or just basic/stupid DKIM/DMARC/DNS setup. You'd be surprised how much billing hours MSP's make just doing that basic stuff. I bill $150-200, and SOW's I've seen have it much higher. So take that as a floor. You can walk into many employers, and own the entire staff easy, you'd be surprised how low the ceiling is at most companies and how true talent or disorganized companies truly are. I've interviewed CISSIP/Full blown cert/degree peopel that couldn't even parse together a hello world or explain how to do a HTTP GET. It's that bad out there now.