VentureBeat December 3, 2021
Kyle Alspach

As the largest cloud provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS) really has only one choice when it comes to security—and that is to approach things “holistically,” the company’s top cybersecurity executive said this week during AWS re:Invent 2021.

“You don’t want to secure just one thing or one edge—or use one technique or one approach,” said Stephen Schmidt, chief information security officer at AWS, during a session at the conference in Las Vegas Thursday.

“By using separate—often overlapping—tools and techniques, and different procedures, we build far more robust protections that’s resilient to individual faults,” Schmidt said. “One of the things that we look for in the internal design of our services is, we never want one security control to be the...

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