Right-Sizing Security Across Amazon Businesses

February 2025

A Conversation with Amazon CSO Steve Schmidt

Security leadership requires a holistic approach across physical and digital domains — and Amazon's diverse business portfolio presents unique challenges and opportunities in both realms. In this interview with Steve Schmidt, Amazon's Chief Security Officer, we'll explore how Amazon implements security across AWS, amazon.com, Whole Foods, Prime Video, Kuiper and more. Join the conversation as Clarke Rodgers, Director of AWS Enterprise Strategy asks Steve about how Amazon standardizes security across businesses, leverages generative AI to improve application security, and enables comprehensive threat intelligence through tools like MadPot. Listen now to learn how modern security leaders can combine physical and information security to combat evolving threats from both cyberattacks and human espionage.

Steve Schmidt, CSO, Amazon:

"We have to integrate the protection of both our physical assets and our information assets, our logical assets in order to get a full picture on what we're doing with our customer's data and how we're protecting it… As security professionals, we have to look at that complete picture of who are our adversaries and how are we going to protect against them."

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