Beyond Human Identity: AI Agents, Security Culture, and Defense

About this episode

Clarke Rodgers interviews Amy Herzog about leading security at scale in the age of AI.

What does it mean to secure the world's largest hyperscale cloud, while AI rewrites the rules of identity, threat detection, and security culture? In this episode of AWS Executive Insights: Security Series, Clarke Rodgers sits down with Amy Herzog, Chief Information Security Officer at AWS, for a candid conversation on what it takes to lead security at scale in the age of AI. Amy draws on her experience leading consumer AI products to argue that security should accelerate innovation, not hinder it. She explores how AWS is deploying AI for defense, why agentic AI demands a rethink of identity, and how the Security Guardians program embeds security culture across the entire organization.

People in this episode

Host: Clarke Rodgers

Guest: Amy Herzog

Topics covered

• AI
• security
• identity
• threat detection
• innovation
• cloud computing

Keywords

• AI agents
• security culture
• identity
• threat detection
• AWS
• innovation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AWS, Amazon Web Services

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