AWS re:Inforce: All About Generative AI for Cybersecurity

AWS RE:INFORCE — Cybersecurity and generative AI go hand in hand. Expect to hear that message repeatedly at AWS re:Inforce this week.

As the world’s largest public cloud computing provider hosts its annual security conference in Philadelphia, look for a lot of discussion and capabilities applicable to value-added resellers, system integrators and managed security service providers.

A few days before AWS re:Inforce, Channel Futures sat down with Ryan Orsi, worldwide cloud foundations and advanced services partner leader, to learn more about what’s in store for the channel. 

AWS's Ryan Orsi

“So much is evolving so quickly, and it's really exciting for our partners out there,” Orsi said, noting that he includes VARs, SIs and MSSPs in that statement (often, at AWS, “partner” refers to the companies Channel Futures sees as vendors).

That excitement starts with understanding security trends. For Orsi, that list begins with identity and resilience, and rounds out with networking, edge, cloud observability and multi/hybrid cloud use cases. And now, generative AI provides the thread tying all of those trends together — particularly among professional and managed security services partners. 

Orsi gave Channel Futures readers a look at what’s coming out of AWS re:Inforce 2024. From a high level, “I think you're going to see the mindset of the CISO come to life,” Orsi said.

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The tools and capabilities AWS is delivering at re:Inforce speak to four main domains: offense, defense, implementation and governance. 

We start the slideshow above with an examination of those practice areas and why they’re so important from the channel side, then shift gears to the announcements you’ll hear at AWS re:Inforce.