AWS Security User Group Singapore: January 2026!

Hey AWS Security fam 👋

A new year, a new meetup, and plenty to look forward to.
January is here — and we are kicking off 2026 with fresh stories, new faces, and another night of security and cloud in action at the AWS Singapore office.

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

✅ Building and Securing Systems at Scale - Lessons from Cybersecurity Practice
📌 Gaurav Keerthi – CEO, StrongKeep

Gaurav will share lessons from building and securing systems at scale, drawing from his experience across national digital infrastructure and his current work in cybersecurity. He will reflect on real world security challenges, how cloud has shaped security decisions, and what practitioners should focus on as systems grow in complexity.

✅ AI Security Operations: AWS Frontier Agents + Custom Agent Development with Bedrock AgentCore and Kiro
📌 Loi Liang Yang – Principal Security Specialist Technical Account Manager, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Loi explores how teams can deploy enterprise AI security using two complementary approaches on AWS. He will show how ready to use AWS AI Investigative, DevOps, and Security Agents can be enabled quickly for autonomous threat detection, while custom agents built with Bedrock AgentCore and Kiro handle unique security needs. You will see how combining managed and custom agents enables scalable, practical AI powered security operations that actually work in real environments.

✅ Accidentally Exposed MCP Servers: Lessons From a Real Incident
📌 Mayank Nauni – Cybersecurity Researcher

Mayank shares findings from a real investigation into Model Context Protocol servers unintentionally exposed to the public internet. He will explain how these exposures happen, what internal context can leak, and why this matters even outside traditional OT environments. The session concludes with practical steps to secure MCP on AWS, including private VPC deployments, identity controls, and continuous posture checks.

🧭 Event Details
📅 Date: Thursday, 15th January 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 – January 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