6. Ryan Orsi and Mark Ryland, AWS

Mark Ryland, AWS’ director of the office of the CISO, and Ryan Orsi, AWS‘ worldwide cloud foundations partner lead for security — MSSP/identity/ops/management, spoke to Channel Futures’ Edward Gately for the Gately Report about a range of security issues. These included the kind of security threats AWS is facing.

“We deal a lot with the distributed denial of service (DDoS) issues,” Ryland said, who made waves for discussing AWS’ approach to those attacks.

“We’re building and engineering our capability, and our networking facilities and presence to deal with that effectively. So actually, many customers come to the cloud precisely because we can actually help defend them much more successfully, because of our scale, than they could do on their own or with a smaller hosting provider. So that’s a good example.”

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