AWS User Group Singapore - Security

Hey AWS Security fam 👋

Our goal remains the same: bring security and cloud practitioners together.
Security is wide; cloud teams move fast. Let us meet in the middle — share what is working, what is painful, and how we can ship safer, faster.

Want to speak next time?
We are lining up lightning talks and deep dives for upcoming meetups — 30-minute sessions, interactive by design. New voices welcome: operators, builders, blue/red/purple teamers, platform folks.
If you have shipped it, broken it, or fixed it, we want to hear it. (Ping the organizers / DM us after you RSVP.)

🎤 Speakers
✅ AWS Privilege Escalation Paths: A Technical Primer

📌 Nicolas Buzy-Debat, Red Team Lead, Grab

A technical session on how privilege escalation paths can emerge within AWS environments, where practitioners can study known techniques, and how the approach differs between pentesting and red teaming. Nicolas will walk through selected examples, practical ways to reason about attack paths, and recommendations for reducing privilege escalation risk through better visibility, IAM design, and security controls.

✅ Security Leadership in the Age of AI and Cloud

📌 Damian Leach, Chief AI & Digital Officer, VISTRA
📌 Donald Ong, Senior Assistant Director, Cybersecurity Agency of Singapore (CSA)
📌 Swan Chin Yeo, Head of Greater ASEAN, Okta

A leadership discussion on how security teams are navigating the intersection of AI, cloud adoption, identity, governance, and an evolving threat landscape. The conversation will explore how leaders balance innovation with risk, what security priorities are changing, and how practitioners can prepare for the next phase of cloud and AI-driven security challenges.

🧭 Event Details
📅 Date: Wednesday, 1st July 2026
🕡 Time: 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
📍 Venue: AWS Singapore, 2 Central Blvd, IOI Central Boulevard East Towers, Level 5

🛂 Registration & Check-in (Important)
Watch for an email titled:
AWS Security User Group Singapore: Registration Confirmed for AWS Security Meetup – July 2026
Show this email at Level 1 Concierge to access Level 5 for verification.
Walk-ins: Only if capacity allows. Confirmed registrations get priority.
No confirmation email = walk-in; entry not guaranteed.

🙌 What to Expect (and why it’s worth your evening)

• 30-minute interactive sessions — no death-by-slides
• Live Q&A & show-and-tell — bring questions, tooling, and war stories
• Security × Cloud crossover — incident learnings, IaC guardrails, identity, data protection, cost/risk trade-offs

🍕 Agenda & Housekeeping
6:30 PM — Pizza & drinks (vegetarian + halal options)
Talks — Start right after dinner
Networking — Meet builders, defenders, and platform folks
📸 Photos/recordings may be used for future promo
Pro tip: Arrive early to skip queues and snag a good seat
🎁 Swag & promo codes — stay till the end for giveaways