Michael South is a 25-year U.S. Navy veteran with a diverse career in technology. He served in key military leadership positions such as the Operations Officer for U.S. Navy networks in Europe, U.S. Navy regional Information Assurance Manager (IAM) for Asia, and the U.S. Navy Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Japan. In his first civilian role, Michael served as the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the city of Washington, DC with a strategic focus on Governance, Risk, and Compliance and where he led cloud strategy development with security as an enabler. He now leads the Americas public sector security and compliance business development for Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he assists CISOs, other executives, and governments achieve their security and compliance objectives in AWS.