All posts by Carter Spriggs

Building a culture of security: AWS partners with the BBC

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Cybersecurity isn’t just about technology—it’s about people. That’s why Amazon Web Services (AWS) partnered with the BBC to explore the human side of cybersecurity in our latest article, The Human Side of Cybersecurity: Building a Culture of Security, available on the BBC website.

In the piece, we spotlight the AWS Security Guardians program and how it helps security enable your business, not slow it down. Through the program, teams are provided tools, resources, and guidance to help address security concerns at every step of development. This enables developers to make the right decisions and embed security deeper in their solutions. Using our approach with their Security Champions initiative, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia shared how the program has helped transform their company culture and give ownership of services and security directly to their teams.

AWS and the Commonwealth Bank sought to understand how they could foster a culture where employees not only understand security, but care about it. They both needed a way to support new technology innovation while reducing security remediation work. This challenge offered both companies an opportunity to try something new with their Security Champions programs, enabling security expertise to be distributed across their respective organizations, which created a scalable solution with measurable results.

Read the full article on the BBC website to discover how AWS and our customers are creating a better environment for our teams, colleagues, customers, and communities.

 
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Carter Spriggs
Carter Spriggs

Carter is a Product Marketing Manager at AWS, focused on thought leadership. Outside of work, Carter enjoys playing tennis, cheering on the Georgia Bulldogs, and loving on his fur babies Ninja, Saint, and Bennett!

Securing the future: building a culture of security

Post Syndicated from Carter Spriggs original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/securing-the-future-building-a-culture-of-security/

According to a 2024 Verizon report, nearly 70% of data breaches occurred because a person was manipulated by social engineering or made some type of error. This highlights the importance of human-layer defenses in an organization’s security strategy. In addition to technology, tools, and processes, security requires awareness and action from everyone in an organization to recognize anomalies, escalate potential issues, and ultimately, mitigate risk.

Organizations that invest in a culture of security see better employee adoption of security controls, improved cybersecurity behavior, and a more effective use of cybersecurity resources, according to a 2024 Gartner analysis. This aligns with our own experience at AWS, where we deeply invest in our culture of security. Our leadership prioritizes security and builds it into our organizational structure. Everyone, regardless of role, views security as a shared responsibility. Security advocates and advisors are embedded in our teams to share their expertise, and innovation empowers our people to move fast while staying secure.

Building and maintaining a culture of security requires constant investment and focus. In our recent culture of security series with The Guardian, we share perspectives from AWS leaders on some of the most common questions that people ask us about how to create a culture of security:

The journey to creating a culture of security begins with the first step. Although this journey looks different for every organization, sharing what we’ve learned may spur ideas for how you can help create a security-first mindset in your own team or organization.

We invite you to explore the series and learn more about how AWS sustains a strong culture of security.

 
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Carter Spriggs
Carter Spriggs

Carter is a Product Marketing Manager at AWS.