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Rod Wallace

Author: Rod Wallace

Rod Wallace is the Director of Security Services at AWS, overseeing critical services including AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, and Amazon Inspector. He led the foundation of the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF). With over 20 years of security leadership experience, including his roles as CISO and Chief Engineer at Pearson, Rod's expertise spans cloud security, DevSecOps, and security data standardization.

OCSF Achieves ITU Support: Powering AI-Ready Security Operations

The security industry stands at an inflection point. In November 2024, the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) joined the Linux Foundation, cementing its role as a vendor-neutral, open source standard for the global security community. Last summer at Black Hat 2025, we showed you how OCSF was powering AI-driven security operations. Then in December 2025, […]

Powering AI-Driven Security with the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework

Powering AI-Driven Security with the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework

As organizations continue to innovate and scale their operations, security teams face a fundamental challenge: the lack of a common language for security data across diverse tools and services. This fragmentation makes it increasingly difficult to efficiently process and analyze vast amounts of security data, limiting threat detection and response capabilities. This is where the […]