RSAC 2024: Deloitte, AWS Bring AI to Cloud Security Service

Julie Bernard, a principal with Deloitte, and PJ Hamlen, worldwide leader, global partner security initiative for AWS, join Dark Reading's Terry Sweeney at News Desk during RSA Conference to discuss how they got ahead of the AI curve by integrating it into their joint service offering, ConvergeSecurity.

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Julie Bernard, a principal with Deloitte, and PJ Hamlen, worldwide leader, global partner security initiative for AWS, join Dark Reading's Terry Sweeney at News Desk during RSA Conference to discuss how they got ahead of the AI curve by integrating it into their joint service offering, ConvergeSecurity. They talk about the multiple challenges customers face in managing cloud security and how their offering addresses those pain points. And they explain how ConvergeSecurity helps proactively detect and mitigate threats, in addition to strengthening an organization’s overall security posture. Bernard and Hamlen also discuss how their service is differentiated from other cloud security offerings.

Julie Bernard is a principal with Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory and is the insurance sector leader for the Cyber Risk Services at Deloitte & Touche LLP. She has more than 20 years of experience serving the world’s top financial institutions at the intersection between business process and information technology. With an extensive background in security strategy, privacy, consumer authentication, fraud prevention, and threat management, she helps clients be more secure, vigilant, and resilient in the face of an ever-increasing array of cyber threats and technology complexity. She is a past board member of the Executive Women’s Forum and currently sits on the Advisory Board for the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC). She earned her BA in Music and Business Administration at Westminster College and an MBA in Finance at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

PJ Hamlen leads the AWS Global Partner Security Initiative. PJ is a versatile executive security leader and trusted advisor with proven success developing and deploying strategic technology initiatives. He leverages market insights, competitive analysis, and the voice of the customers to develop purpose-built security solutions that deliver business value to customers, revenue growth and partner mindshare.

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Terry Sweeney, Contributing Editor

Terry Sweeney is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor who has covered technology, networking, and security for more than 20 years. He was part of the team that started Dark Reading and has been a contributor to The Washington Post, Crain's New York Business, Red Herring, Network World, InformationWeek and Mobile Sports Report.

In addition to information security, Sweeney has written extensively about cloud computing, wireless technologies, storage networking, and analytics. After watching successive waves of technological advancement, he still prefers to chronicle the actual application of these breakthroughs by businesses and public sector organizations.


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