Amazon adds cybersecurity veteran to the S-team, the top leadership group that reports to CEO Andy Jassy
Schmidt joins the S-team, the elite group of executives that set Amazon's business priorities.Amazon is centralizing its cybersecurity operations under longtime Amazon Web Services chief information security officerthe"S-team,"Putting one person in charge of companywide cybersecurity will make it easier to standardize security practices across Amazon, the spokesperson said in an email. She added that Schmidt's promotion had been in the works for months.
Schmidt joined AWS in 2008 as software director and assumed the division's CISO job two years later, according to his LinkedIn profile. In his new role, Schmidt will have the title Chief Security Officer. CJ Moses, who is replacing Schmidt as AWS CISO; Four Flynn, CISO of Amazon's consumer division; and Lakshmi Hanspal, CISO for Devices, will report to Schmidt, the spokesperson confirmed. Sign up for notifications from Insider! Stay up to date with what you want to know.
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