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Merritt (Twitter: @MerrittBaer) is Field CISO at Lacework, a cloud security unicorn. Merritt provides technical security guidance to Lacework’s customer executives. She is also instrumental in the security industry: speaking, talking and advising companies on security at scale, and she helps to inform Lacework product roadmaps with customer and threat landscape feedback.
Previously, Merritt served in the Office of the CISO at Amazon Web Services, as part of a small elite team that formed a Deputy CISO. She provided technical cloud security guidance to AWS’ largest customers, like the Fortune 100, on security as a bottom line proposition. She also helped build strategic initiatives for how AWS secures itself, running on AWS, and how AWS externalizes security services.