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Mark Ryland

Author: Mark Ryland

Mark Ryland is Director, AWS Security. He has over 30 years of experience in the technology industry and has served in leadership roles in cybersecurity, software engineering, distributed systems, technology standardization and public policy. Previously, he served as the Director of Solutions Architecture and Professional Services for the AWS World Public Sector team.

AWS and Others Invest $12.5M to Defend the Open Source Ecosystem from AI Threats

AWS, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI today announced a joint $12.5 million investment with the Linux Foundation to help open source projects address a surge in AI-enhanced and AI-generated security vulnerability reports. Both the Alpha Omega initiative and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) will receive funding through the Linux Foundation grants. Software security is at […]

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AWS Investing an Additional $10 Million in Open Source Supply Chain Security

Security is our top priority at AWS. As a result, we are committed to contributing to the quality and safety of open source software. We see great value in contributing both engineering efforts and also projects, tools, training, and guidelines to help improve the security of open source software. These efforts benefit us, our customers, […]