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Expertise
- Cloud security product strategy and go-to-market, with a focus on enterprise adoption
- Building and scaling cloud security services from inception (led Amazon GuardDuty from launch to one of the world's most widely adopted cloud security services)
- Multi-cloud enforcement and secure-by-design architecture
- Customer-obsessed product leadership in regulated, high-stakes security environments
- Intelligence analysis and national security, from service as Head of Intelligence Department in the IDF's Central Intelligence Unit
Education
- Harvard Business School: MBA
- Tel Aviv University: BA Philosophy and Political Science
About the author
Amit Megiddo is the CEO and Co-Founder of Native, a cloud security company that emerged from stealth in 2026 with $42 million in funding to build what it describes as a control plane for cloud security. Before founding Native, Amit led product management for Amazon GuardDuty from its inception, growing it into one of the world's most widely deployed cloud threat detection services. Prior to AWS, he served in Israeli Military Intelligence as Head of Intelligence Department in the IDF's Central Intelligence Unit. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Amit writes on cloud security strategy, the shift from visibility to enforcement, and what it takes to build secure-by-design environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
