AWS’ Jerome Johnson on the future of cyber defense

Jerome Johnson, Director of National Security Solution Architecture at AWS, discussed the effectiveness of zero-trust strategies in cybersecurity, emphasizing identity and access management, centralized security and anomaly detection. He highlighted the role of advanced data analytics and AI in predictive protection and proactive measures, including automation and generative AI. Johnson underscored the importance of cross-agency and public-private collaboration for data sharing and threat detection. He also predicted the rise of agentic workflows in AI by 2025, enabling automated, proactive responses to cyber threats.