Amazon Promotes AWS Cybersecurity Chief Stephen Schmidt to S-Team

• Longtime AWS security chief Stephen Schmidt promoted to head cybersecurity efforts companywide.
• Schmidt joins the S-team, the elite group of executives that set Amazon's business priorities.
• CJ Moses is replacing Schmidt as AWS CISO, a spokesperson said. 

Amazon is centralizing its cybersecurity operations under longtime Amazon Web Services chief information security officer Stephen Schmidt.

In his new role, Schmidt will report directly to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy as a member of the "S-team," a group of 29 senior executives who set business priorities, a spokesperson confirmed.

Putting one person in charge of companywide cybersecurity will make it easier to standardize security practices across Amazon, the spokesperson said in an email. She added that Schmidt's promotion had been in the works for months.

Schmidt joined AWS in 2008 as software director and assumed the division's CISO job two years later, according to his LinkedIn profile.

In his new role, Schmidt will have the title Chief Security Officer. CJ Moses, who is replacing Schmidt as AWS CISO; Four Flynn, CISO of Amazon's consumer division; and Lakshmi Hanspal, CISO for Devices, will report to Schmidt, the spokesperson confirmed. 

Schmidt's promotion was reported earlier by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting.

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