The Darth Vader of AWS with Eric Brandwine

Published: March 16, 2021, 10 a.m.

Eric Brandwine is a VP and distinguished engineer at AWS, where he focuses on the cloud and security and has worked for more than 13 years. Prior to joining Amazon, Eric worked as a principal engineer and senior engineer at MITRE for 10 years and a network security engineer at UUNet. He earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in computer science from Cornell University, with a concentration on engineering physics and research in operating systems.\n\nJoin Corey and Eric as they talk about why Eric is kind of the Darth Vader of AWS, how meeting coworkers for the first time during security events isn\u2019t the best way to win friends and influence people, how security is job zero at AWS and what that means, why businesses shouldn\u2019t be terrified of making a single misstep but why they should take every security event very seriously, the importance of earning customer trust every day, the two things Eric thinks makes security difficult, how cyberattacks are like playing a blind game of chess against and unknown adversary, why Eric\u2019s favorite word in AWS security is \u201cescalate,\u201d and more.