AWS re:Inforce is its inaugural cloud security conference in Boston this week. CEO Steve Schmidt says the biggest risk to most organizations still tends to be people. Schmidt launched an initiative within Amazon Web Services to radically reduce employees’ access to data by 80%. Less data access prompted a shift to automation, which freed time to build projects they cared about and boosted recruitment and retention. Security pros who understand the problem of secure development realize it’s better to get dev teams thinking about security than trying to unravel the mess they made afterward.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/aws-ciso-talks-risk-reduction-development-recruitment