Less Alerts, More Impact: Stephen Kuenzli on Winning at AWS Security

About this episode

Stephen Kuenzli discusses his transition from AWS consultant to SaaS builder and shares insights on cloud security challenges.

Stephen Kuenzli, founder of k9 Security, joins us to talk about his journey from AWS consultant to SaaS builder — and why IAM is still the hardest part of cloud security. We dig into practical advice for achieving least privilege, how to deal with the flood of security alerts from tools like AWS Security Hub and Wiz, and why your team's attention budget matters more than fixing every finding. Plus, Stephen plays a quick-fire round rating Security Hub controls as "critical" or "distraction."

People in this episode

Hosts: Andreas Wittig, Michael Wittig

Guest: Stephen Kuenzli

Topics covered

• AWS Security
• IAM
• cloud security
• least privilege
• security alerts
• team management

Keywords

• AWS
• cloud security
• IAM
• security alerts
• least privilege
• AWS Security Hub
• Wiz

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: k9 Security, AWS, AWS Security Hub, Wiz