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.
All articles

Security Architecture & Strategy
May 15, 2026
The work of seeing and detecting is mature. The next chapter is enforcement, architecture, and secure-by-design. Native is now in AWS Security Hub Extended with multicloud coverage across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.

Secure-by-Design Perspectives
Apr 6, 2026
AI agents are already being given real access to code, infrastructure, and production workflows. The winners will not be the organizations that slow that down. They will be the ones that enforce the right boundaries at the cloud level, so agents can move fast without putting the business at risk.

Secure-by-Design Perspectives
Apr 2, 2026
The threat is no longer theoretical. One low-skill actor used AI to compromise more than 600 devices in five weeks. This post explains why the real answer is not faster alerts, but security architecture that removes the conditions attackers are counting on.

Secure-by-Design Perspectives
Mar 30, 2026
AI adoption is accelerating, but most organizations are still governing it like software instead of architecture. This piece breaks down why model choice, data access, egress, and input handling are cloud security decisions, and what it takes to enforce the right boundaries before those decisions harden into risk.

Secure-by-Design Perspectives
Mar 16, 2026
Cloud providers offer powerful native controls, but operationalizing them across multiple clouds doesn't scale. Native is the control plane that translates security intent into enforcement at the source.




