Conversations with Security Leaders
Get the latest security insights from AWS leaders
The Security Leaders series on Executive Insights is your opportunity to peek behind the curtain of AWS Security. Hear directly from AWS leaders about how we scale security and compliance across our organization and on behalf of our customers. Learn how to build security culture in your organization and discover what trends AWS leaders are predicting for the future of security.
Season 3
How Will Generative AI Change Security Operations?
Whether you buy it or build it, security operations is an important piece of an enterprise security strategy. In this conversation with Tom Avant, Director of AWS Security Operations, we discuss the keys to building a successful security operations center, including justifying the investment, measuring its impact, and embracing automation to drive continuous improvement. We also explore the impact of emerging technologies like generative AI on the future of security operations.
How to be a Better CISO: Thoughts on Successful Security Leadership
What qualities make a CISO successful? How do we define effective, top-level security leadership? As the CISO for AWS, today's guest is uniquely positioned to answer these questions.
Join Clarke Rodgers, Director of AWS Enterprise Strategy for a conversation with AWS CISO, Chris Betz. Watch as Chris shares his thoughts on everything from establishing a culture of security, to hiring for diversity, to mentoring the next generation of great security leaders.
How the C-Suite Sets the Bar for Security Culture
Culture and workforce training are key elements of an organization’s security preparedness — after all, many malicious actors still rely on basic phishing schemes. Join us as we speak with Sara Duffer, Director of AWS Security Assurance and former Technical Advisor to the Amazon CEO. We’ll discuss the importance of security culture and what role the CEO plays in building and reinforcing security standards.
Securing the Internet With Cloud Innovation
Join us for a fireside chat with Paul Vixie, AWS Deputy CISO, Vice President, and Distinguished Engineer. As an early influencer in the evolution of the Internet, Paul knows a lot about the Internet's inner workings, including its vulnerabilities. In this conversation with Clarke Rodgers, Director of Enterprise Strategy, Paul discusses how AWS is working to address the Internet's security flaws and enable more secure online connections.
Get to Know the AWS CISO Circle Program
Effective leaders recognize that security can’t be done in a vacuum, but must be a collective pursuit. In this interview, hear from Danielle Ruderman, leader of the AWS CISO Circle program about how AWS is helping security leaders build a global community of knowledge sharing and support.
Additional Season 3 videos
Meet the host: Clarke Rodgers
With my experience as a former Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), I spend the majority of my time as a Director of AWS Enterprise Strategy talking with customers about security and compliance. “What common security mistakes should I avoid?”, “How did AWS address this vulnerability?”, “What have others in my region done to meet this regulation?” are questions I hear regularly.
Customers want to know how AWS handles security at scale for ourselves and on behalf of customers. Ultimately, they want to learn how to improve security in their own organizations using the AWS blueprint. That's why I set out to create this interview series with AWS security leaders to provide discussion around some of the most commonly asked security questions. Now filming its third season, the series focuses on modern security leadership in an era of rapid change and constant disruption. Explore the first two seasons and be on the lookout for season three coming soon.
Season 2
AWS Cloud Security: How it Started, Where it’s Headed
What does it take to build a highly effective security organization from the ground up? See what CJ Moses, Chief Information Security Officer at AWS, recommends based on his experience helping to design and implement the AWS security organization.
How to Pass Your Compliance Audit With AWS
In this interview with Jessie Skibbe, a privacy and security assurance leader at AWS, we’re diving into the odds and ends of security compliance. Watch this conversation to learn more about what it takes to pass an audit.
Think Like an Auditor: How to Measure Security Compliance
Ever wondered what compliance regulators are looking for when they conduct an audit? Learn how to measure your security compliance like an auditor would in this conversation with Samara Moore, Senior Manager of Security Assurance at AWS.
Vulnerability Management in a Zero Day Security Scenario
When a “zero day” security situation occurs, how will your organization respond? Hear how AWS responded to Log4J, a real-life vulnerability management scenario. Don’t miss the final part of our three-part Security Leaders conversation with CJ Moses, AWS CISO and VP of Security Engineering.
Who Owns What? Security Ownership and Responsibility at AWS
How clear is security ownership in your organization? If patching needs to happen fast, will your workforce be able to act quickly or will they question who owns what? In this interview with Laura Grit, a Distinguished Engineer at AWS, we’re discussing the importance of shared security responsibility.
Additional Season 2 videos
Season 1
Reframing Security as a Strategic Advantage
While some may see security as a stumbling block to digital transformation, Merritt Baer sees it as a business enabler. As a Principal in the AWS Office of the CISO, Merritt knows security isn’t just about how an organization secures itself, but also how it delivers secure products and services for customers. She helps leaders see the value of security in their organizations and helps reinforce our own culture of security here at AWS.
Developing and Measuring a Modern Security Operations Organization
Hear from Hart Rossman, Director of Global Security Practice at AWS about how organizations can find and develop talent to help them achieve their security objectives, including modernizing and measuring security operations in a way that matters to customers.
Extending Security Ownership Across Your Organization
As a Principal Solutions Architect specializing in security, identity, and compliance at AWS, Megan O’Neil is passionate about helping customers refine their cloud security strategy. She provides education and advice to help customers build their security foundation, set appropriate guardrails, implement security controls, and define their best operating model for cloud.
Scaling Compliance and Security Assurance at AWS
Hear from Chad Woolf, VP of AWS Security, on how AWS partners with customers to provide truly scalable and unique solutions that meet the regulatory requirements across virtually every industry, geography and business model.
Additional Season 1 videos
Conversations with Security Leaders podcast
Prefer podcasts to videos? Catch us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Amazon Music to enjoy an audio-first experience of every security episode.
